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[deleted] t1_iykpszv wrote

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Darth_Kahuna OP t1_iykqi0a wrote

You'd be surprised. From the British Isle's, to modern day Georgia, central Asia, Spain, Greece, the greater Balkans, and more. There was a relative large amount of gold being mined from many places in the Bronze Age.

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tom-8-to t1_iykxv2a wrote

The Romans were specially destructive in mining gold in Spain their hydraulic rams brought down entire slopes of mountains and the devastation can be seen to this day.

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Initial_District_161 t1_iykzyvx wrote

>How is that surprising?

Because it implies trade networks across millennia.

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[deleted] t1_iyl04lh wrote

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Initial_District_161 t1_iyl0fee wrote

No, we didn't.

We knew they existed over thousands of MILES but for those same routes to have existed for thousands of YEARS is different.

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