The origin of Neolithic copper on the central Northern European plain and in Southern Scandinavia: Connectivities on a European scale (IMAGE)

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The origin of Neolithic copper on the central Northern European plain and in Southern Scandinavia: Connectivities on a European scale

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Copper axe from Frömkenberg (Germany) in the Scanning Electron Microscope of the Institute of Materials Science at Kiel University. Through the lead isotope analyses in this study, the origin of the copper of the axe was identified as the Belovode region of Serbia, more than 1000 km away from the site.

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Christin Szillus, Kiel University, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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