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This paper reviews the most recent evidence for metal production and exchange systems in the Bronze Age Persian Gulf. In particular, the evidence for the use of non-Omani metal (tin and tin-bronze) is addressed, and the implications for our understanding of the development of local alloying and exchange are discussed. Subsequently, the more unexpected possibility that copper ingots were being imported into copper-rich Oman in the Bronze Age is addressed. Upon consideration of the evidence, it seems possible that the putative foreign copper ingots are in fact local products, although there is a deal of ambiguity in relation to these claims. |
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