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In a new Sciences Advances report, a team of researchers led by Michael Frachetti, at Washington University in St. Louis, is calling for a strengthened commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration to study past and present human-environmental interactions, which they say will advance our understanding of the complex, entangled histories.
Finds from one of the world’s oldest shipwrecks hint that miners in Central Asia and Turkey provided a crucial metal to Mediterranean rulers.
Nomads from Uzbekistan didn't need empire or centralization to hold near monopoly power over tin sales in the ancient Near East, 3,500 BCE.
The 14th century BC Uluburun shipwreck is helping archaeologists unravel the supply chains and trade networks of the late Bronze Age.
The tin had planned to travel to markets in the Middle East that were supposedly going to be made into a coveted bronze metal..