Talk:Tin sources and trade during antiquity

No Western Tin in Mesopotamia 1700-1300 B.C.
My understanding was that all the casserite (sp) came from The Bactria Margiana Complex into Mesopotamia during the high Bronze Age. There was a mine in Southern Turkey called Kestel, which was abandoned in 1750 B.C. No tin is found in the west until the shipwreck from 1300 B.C.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.20.58.213 (talk) 00:57, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Inline citations
I'm unclear as to what is meant by the red question mark suggesting a lack of inline citations. I have included Harvard style inline citations throughout the text which is considered acceptable by Wikipedia standards. Regardless, I have enhanced the references section by following a citation template and linked all the inline citations directly to the references section using citation template. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lboscher (talk • contribs)
 * Having read through the article – which is great! – I don't think that harv is a very good referencing system for use in Wikipedia. Apart from the difficulty of keeping the citations and sources in sync (hence the several errors I've corrected), to my eyes it also disrupts the flow of the text too much. —S MALL  JIM   15:45, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

bronze age tin
Since by the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom that part of the world had switched over from arsenic bronze to tin bronze, where do Wertime and Muhly say they got the tin? Thanks. 4.249.63.15 (talk) 18:41, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Earliest dates of tin mining
In Geevor mine in Cornwall one of the visitor information tablets suggests that the earliest evidence for tin mining in Cornwall is that it was happening in 4,250BC.

Drg40 (talk) 22:09, 19 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Just noting that I can't find this on their website and our article makes it no more than about 3 centuries old. ¬¬¬¬ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 16:38, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

"Isotope systematics and chemical composition of tin ingots from Mochlos (Crete) and other Late Bronze Age sites in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: An ultimate key to tin provenance?"
A new article From the abstract: @it is further possible to exclude many tin resources from the European continent and, considering the current state of knowledge and the available data, to conclude that Cornish tin mines are the most likely suppliers for the 13th–12th centuries tin ingots from Israel. Even though a different provenance seems to be suggested for the tin from Mochlos and Uluburun by the actual data, these findings are of great importance for the archaeological interpretation of the trade routes and the circulation of tin during the Late Bronze Age. They demonstrate that the trade networks between the eastern Mediterranean and some place in the east that are assumed for the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE (as indicated by textual evidence from Kültepe/Kaneš and Mari) did not exist in the same way towards the last quarter of the millennium.@ ¬¬¬¬ ¬¬¬¬

Removed the Map
The map was missing the overwhelming source of tin during the Bronze Age, the Bactria Margiana Complex. 64.222.113.252 (talk) 18:02, 6 March 2020 (UTC) John Dee

Parenthetical referencing
"As of September 2020, inline parenthetical referencing is deprecated on Wikipedia", see WP:PAREN. This article (which by the way is well referenced) uses parenthetical referencing and needs to be converted. Some time over the next week I will go through it and change it to an acceptable style unless there are any major objections. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 22:44, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Martin of Sheffield (talk) 11:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

South East Asia to Tasmania
The section on Australia says that the Southeast Asian Tin Belt extends to Tasmania. I don't see how this could make any geographic sense, unless the rocks formed in a belt and then by coincidence have subsequently lined up again. Can someone with geological expertise give an opinion? David Bofinger (talk) 05:16, 21 July 2024 (UTC)