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... Bronze Age takes up the greater part of the 3rd millen- nium BC . During the Middle Bronze Age , the central Ana- tolian principalities with whom the Assyrian merchants were in contact were amalgamated in the Hittite Old Kingdom ( c ...
... Bronze Age takes up the greater part of the 3rd millen- nium BC . During the Middle Bronze Age , the central Ana- tolian principalities with whom the Assyrian merchants were in contact were amalgamated in the Hittite Old Kingdom ( c ...
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... Period and the Early Bronze Age . Bronze appeared early , around 1800 BC in Italy and Sar- dinia . The Bronze Age varied in duration according to locale ; in Italy it gave way to the Iron Age at the begin- ning of the 1st millennium BC ...
... Period and the Early Bronze Age . Bronze appeared early , around 1800 BC in Italy and Sar- dinia . The Bronze Age varied in duration according to locale ; in Italy it gave way to the Iron Age at the begin- ning of the 1st millennium BC ...
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... Bronze Age in the friezes on the big stone cist of Kivik at Skåne , Sweden , as well as on rock engrav- ings that cover a long period of the Bronze and Iron Ages of Scandinavia . The Early Bronze Age was characterized by tumulus graves ...
... Bronze Age in the friezes on the big stone cist of Kivik at Skåne , Sweden , as well as on rock engrav- ings that cover a long period of the Bronze and Iron Ages of Scandinavia . The Early Bronze Age was characterized by tumulus graves ...
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