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Parte Dos: Vaca Santa

Pantagathus

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So it seems our intrepid Atlantic traders of the Bronze Age weren't satisfied with Iberia as the southern trade terminus; they ventured into the mid-Mediterranean... :wacko:

 

There was a metal-centric trade network where (what I'll call) proto-Lusitanian/Tartessian traders linked up with Cypriot merchants through Nuragic-Sardinian intermediaries. Their Iberian jumping off point was where one might expect it; trading towns established on the coastal rivers closest to Pityusae & the Balearics.

 

It seems from the Archaeological evidence that (now this is only late Bronze Age mind you) they traded tin for scrap bronze & (of course) some status goods. The scrap was reworked in workshops adjacent to the aforementioned towns and then redistributed back home & along the Atlantic network proper.

 

This enlightenment speaks volumes to my previously held conviction that the Phoenicians didn

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Pertinax

Once again much smarter ancestors than conventional interpretation allows of, and the constantly forgotten variable of the cheapness/ease of water transport in the ancient world -ok I know shipwreck and piracy are the variables but sometimes you have to remind yourself of the role of seaborne communication, not least because of the much more ephemeral nature of wooden ships and port facilities versus walls and roads.

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