Radivojević, Miljana (Author)
Rehren, Thilo (Author)
Kuzmanović-Cvetković, Julka (Author)
Jovanović, Marija (Author)
Northover, J. Peter (Author)
Antiquity
Volume: 87
Pages: 1030--1045
The earliest tin bronze artefacts in Eurasia are generally believed to have appeared in the Near East in the early third millennium BC. Here we present tin bronze artefacts that occur far from the Near East, and in a significantly earlier period. Excavations at Plo ik, a Vin a culture site in Serbia, recovered a piece of tin bronze foil from an occupation layer dated to the mid fifth millennium BC. The discovery prompted a reassessment of 14 insufficiently contextualised early tin bronze artefacts from the Balkans. They too were found to derive from the smelting of coppertin ores. These tin bronzes extend the record of bronze making by c. 1500 years, and challenge the conventional narrative of Eurasian metallurgical development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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