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Close-up of a Nuragic bronze, a bronze statuette about 10 cm high with a horned helmet. The statuette is found in the ritual complex of Abini, in central Sardinia. Credit: Heida V. Norgard, courtesy of the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.

Metals reveal: The Bronze Age was much more interconnected than we thought

As part of the Metals & Giants research project, an international team of researchers has shed new light on the metal trade in the Bronze Age – and discovered a much wider network of connections than previously estimated.