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Recent research has shown that Cypriot copper, which was naturally of great purity, was being traded to Scandinavia about as far as 1700 BCE, / 3700 BP.

The interesting thing is Scandinavian rock carvings which not only show ox-hide ingots but Mediterranean style ships, indicating that at least some ancient Swedes travelled to the Med from about that time.

Representations of oxhide ingots in Scandinavian rock art: the sketchbook of a Bronze Age traveller?
Johan Ling and Zoa Stos-Gale
Antiquity / Volume 89 / Issue 343 / February 2015, pp 191 - 209 DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2014.1, Published online: 30 January 2015:

http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X14000015

[Lordo]

this is very interesting topic as it took place before the bastard greeks invaded our beloved cyprus.

[CrookedRiverGuy]

this is very interesting topic as it took place before the bastard greeks invaded our beloved cyprus.

To be more precise: it took place before the development of two bastard religions.

Recent research has shown that Cypriot copper, which was naturally of great purity, was being traded to Scandinavia about as far as 1700 BCE, / 3700 BP.

The interesting thing is Scandinavian rock carvings which not only show ox-hide ingots but Mediterranean style ships, indicating that at least some ancient Swedes travelled to the Med from about that time.

Representations of oxhide ingots in Scandinavian rock art: the sketchbook of a Bronze Age traveller?
Johan Ling and Zoa Stos-Gale
Antiquity / Volume 89 / Issue 343 / February 2015, pp 191 - 209 DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2014.1, Published online: 30 January 2015:

http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X14000015

Images identified as oxhide ingots have been discovered in Sweden and suggest that people from Scandinavia were familiar with this characteristically Mediterranean trading commodity.

What exactly is this - and in what way can it be characterized as a "Mediterranean trading commodity"?