Plenty of nice photos, I'm just not posting them because I can't view them on this poor old tired machine, and this poor old tired body needs some solid naptime right now.
I’m fascinated by Otzi’s Copper axe. Could it have come from Wisconsin?
This shouldn’t be surprising at all, since the Phoenicians dominated the tin trade from Cornwall and the Phoenicians lived literally right next door to Israel.
Tin came from The Cassiterides? Who knew?
Suspected for a long time. Solomon had his tin mines in Tarsus. Tarsus was considered the end of the world. (Jonah was fleeing from God to Tarsus.) So now there is evidence that Britan is Tarsus. Kind of cool.
Oh, how I hate “BCE”...
I thought the British Isles were also known as the Tin Isles, but I have no idea how far back that name goes.
What I want to know is how did someone figure out the proper composition of the alloy of Bronze? Generating enough heat to melt the components together let alone in the proper proportions was no small feat. How did it ever occur to someone that an alloy could be of use at all? How long must it have all taken from the first inkling that it could be done until the time something useful in quantity could be produced?
In the “Declaration of Arbroath,” the Kings of Scotland claimed to be descended from Israelite royalty. And if enough people go from Judea to Scotland (or vice-versa), chances are some of them will pass through England.
They claimed the Stone of Scone/Stone of Destiny (on which all Kings of Scotland were crowned until Edward the Long Shanks stole it) was the Stone of Jacob referenced in Genesis.
Every historic link between Scotland and the Holy Lands further increases the odds of goods from England traveling to Judea.
Indeed this subject has sometimes been heated. You might be aware of The God-kings & Titans by James Bailey. He argues trans-Atlantic commerce in pre-Columbian times including possibly during the Bronze Age.
I contacted Scott Wolter (forensic geologist - ???) - America Unearthed (History Channel) - a few years ago when he documented extensive ancient tin mines in the Great Lakes region to investigate Bailey's claims that there was not enough tin available to the European - Levant - Mesopotamian region and their prolific use of Bronze implements without considering the Great Lakes source.
Wolter seemed more interested in disproving the divinity of Jesus Christ. We may never get a positive answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Of course Bailey's theory is controversial. I tend to think that the validity of his theory is inescapable - but needs much more research to establish any sort of proof.