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Opening the Bronze Age world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2015

Flemming Kaul
Flemming Kaul*
Affiliation:
Ancient Cultures of Denmark and the Mediterranean, The National Museum of Denmark, Frederiksholms Kanal 12, DK-1220 Copenhagen K, Denmark (E-mail: flemming.kaul@natmus.dk)
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In the above paper by Johan Ling and Zofia Stos-Gale, an object seen in a number of Swedish rock paintings and carvings is understood to be a representation of the so-called oxhide shaped ingot of the eastern Mediterranean Minoan-Mycenaean Bronze Age culture.

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 343 , February 2015 , pp. 210 - 212
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd., 2015 

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