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Bronze Age Weapons : Late Bronze Age Bronze Mace Head
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Late Bronze Age Bronze Mace Head - LK.108
Origin: Israel
Circa: 1500
BC
to 1250
BC
Dimensions:
4.5" (11.4cm) high
x 3" (7.6cm) wide
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Bronze
Condition: Extra Fine
£4,000.00
Location: Great Britain
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The Bronze Age was a period in the civilization's
development when the most advanced
metalworking (at least in systematic and
widespread use) consisted of techniques for
smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring
outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those
metals in order to cast bronze. The Bronze Age
forms part of the three-age system for
prehistoric societies. In that system, it follows
the Neolithic in some areas of the world. In many
parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Neolithic is
directly followed by the Iron Age. The place and
time of the invention of bronze are controversial,
and it is possible that bronzing was invented
independently in multiple places. The earliest
known tin bronzes are from what is now Iran and
Iraq and date to the late 4th millennium BC, but
there are claims of an earlier appearance of tin
bronze in Thailand in the 5th millennium BC.
Arsenical bronzes were made in Anatolia and on
both sides of the Caucasus by the early 3rd
millennium BC. Some scholars date some
arsenical bronze artefacts of the Maykop culture
in the North Caucasus as far back as the mid 4th
millennium BC, which would make them the
oldest known bronzes, but others date the same
Maykop artefacts to the mid 3rd millennium BC.
The Bronze Age in the Near East is divided into
three main periods (the dates are very
approximate): • EBA - Early Bronze Age (c.3500-
2000 BC) • MBA - Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-
1600 BC) • LBA - Late Bronze Age (c.1600-1200
BC) Metallurgy developed first in Anatolia,
modern Turkey. The mountains in the Anatolian
highland possessed rich deposits of copper and
tin. Copper was also mined in Cyprus, Egypt, the
Negev desert, Iran and around the Persian Gulf.
Copper was usually mixed with arsenic, yet the
growing demand for tin resulted in the
establishment of distant trade routes in and out
of Anatolia. The precious copper was also
imported by sea routes to the great kingdoms of
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
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