3600-year-old Swedish Axes Were Made With Copper From Cyprus

Haaretz ^ | May 11, 2016 | Philippe Bohstrom

[Rockpile]

With so many warships lost in combat there must be quite an amount of metal remnants remaining, especially rams, but you never hear of any active search for such. I think about six rams in a variety of sizes are in museums. Over centuries with different yards and different sizes of ships maybe each one was custom moulded for each vessel.

Dang it, is a sick world wherein I am not a bzillionaire.

[Rockpile]

I hope that some day a lost copper loaded merchantman or maybe Norse knarr will be found in the Great Lakes or Hudson Bay.

[blam]

"There is also a theory that the Mycenaeans dug up the copper in the Great Lakes. "

My expectations that isotopes from Great Lakes copper will be found in Europe are slipping....terribly.

[AdmSmith]

[SunkenCiv]

World trade without borders is okay, so long as it took place long before anyone alive today was born. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

I'd love it if the Bay of Jars (Brazil) were mapped, surveyed, and excavated. It's an ancient merchant ship loaded with (you guessed it) amphora. There's some simpleton liar who claimed to have "salted" the site with a couple of modern fakes, but the Bay of Jars name dates back well into the 19th century, probably long before the simpleton's grandparents were born.

[lepton]

I’ve heard some ruminations that Baldur might be related to the Phonecian Ba’al.

[Rockpile]

Is that the Roman wreck where fisherman were dragging up amphorae and the “authorities” refuse to allow exploration of the site?

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In a different place, I saw where a fishing boat in the 1930s brought up a Roman era container from the Porcupine ridge area a hundred miles west of Ireland. Too bad no one knows the exact site now.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice!

[SunkenCiv]

Spreading civilization requires math, but they were able to *handle* it, with adze and subtracts.

[JoeProBono]

[tet68]

Right, sub-tracts, that’s where the first suburbs were
discovered. And everyone thought it was in New Jersey....

[Koracan]

100000 years of Evolution,.. right there.
We must be special.

[Daffynition]

STOP making me laugh!

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

Timely, eh?

[Daffynition]

Should be an Olympic sport

[Candor7]

Spreading civilization requires math, but they were able to *handle* it, with adze and subtracts.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And besides, they have been burying their hatchets ever since!One wonders why the socialists actually tolerate modern muslim rape of Swedish women. Could it be because there are no virgins at all among them, let alone, say 72?

Viking has become biking.

[SunkenCiv]

The virgins are all 99 years old. Oh, and they’re actually raisins.