Practice question · Select all that apply
What did the Uluburun shipwreck (c. 1300 BCE) carry?
Hints
- The cargo spans an entire region's products.
- Notably absent is the metal of the following age.
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- A. Egyptian gold and Canaanite jars
- B. Baltic amber and African ebony
- D. Ten tonnes of Cypriot copper and a tonne of tin
Why
One hull carrying a continent, and no iron, because the age had not got there yet. The wreck is the Late Bronze Age’s interconnection preserved in seawater.
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