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Just saying this is the first time I have read mainstream thesis stating there was massive trade in the bronze age with northern Europe in the first person sense. Before that the claims were kind of out there - like Mycenaeans or Phoenicians built stonehenge, etc. and those theories were rightly discredited. But this is a different take on that.

Very interesting, thank you for a great post. Can I be put on the list for such articles? My view was that during the Bronze age the quest for rare tin maybe allowed for world exploration and maybe the bronze age people explored the world, including the Americas. That made sense to me because there was a financial reason to explore.

Beu when iron replaced bronze the market for bronze collapsed and there was no more need to explore or circumnavigate the globe. Over time this world knowledge - which was secret to begin with because it was a trade secret passed down father to son probably - was forgotten.