Tin cargo on a 2000-year-old wreck off Haifa came all the way from Uzbekistan

[JimW]

Some trading network: Findings from 2,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

This bit was intriguing too:

Adding to the mystique is the fact that the mining industry appears to have been run by small-scale local communities or free laborers who negotiated this marketplace outside of the control of kings, emperors or other political organizations, Frachetti said.

 

[JimW]

Ooh, ooh, controversy abounds; other researchers say the claims about origin are too bold and the tin might have come from nearer: New study refutes origin claim involving Bronze Age tin ingots recovered from shipwreck

 

[8ball]

Did they open the tin to see what was in it?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Did they open the tin to see what was in it?

I've seen that movie. It didn't end well.

 

[JimW]

Did they open the tin to see what was in it?

Does what is says on the tin spectrograph reading?

 

[JimW]

See Cornwall was one likely origin for some of it. Remember reading they thought the Phonecians came to trade.

 

[MysteryGuest]

I've seen that movie. It didn't end well.

Indiana Jones and the unopened tin of surstromming?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Indiana Jones and the unopened tin of surstromming?

When you open the can

 

[MysteryGuest]

When you open the can
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It's on my anti-bucket list of things to never do...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Did they open the tin to see what was in it?

Surströmming

 

[MysteryGuest]

Surströmming

Great minds and all that. And also, you.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Great minds and all that. And also, you.

Damn you, Gusset, damn you to hell