The geographic origins of the metals inwards Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts unwrap a crucial dependency on British together with continental European trading sources during the beginnings of the Nordic Bronze Age, according to a written report published July 24, 2019 inwards the open-access mag PLOS ONE past times Heide W. Nørgaard from Aarhus University, Denmark, together with colleagues.
2000-1700BC marks the earliest Nordic Bronze Age, when the purpose together with availability of metal--specifically tin together with copper, which when alloyed together creates bronze--increased drastically inwards Scandinavia. The authors performed isotope together with trace-element analyses on 210 Bronze Age artifact samples, predominantly axeheads, originally collected inwards Kingdom of Denmark together with representing near 50% of all known existing Danish metallic objects from this period.
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