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Rock art reveals long-distance trade
Bronze Age sailors, metal prospectors, and traders regularly travelled between northern and southern Europe – a distance of more than 2,000 miles – according to new research looking at similarities in the depiction of boats in rock carvings in Sweden, Denmark, Spain, and Portugal.
Boat representations are the most prevalent motif in the rock-art imagery of southern Scandinavia, with some 20,000 recorded examples. Typically, they are carved into the surface of glacially smoothed rocks along coasts and inland waterways. Similar depictions are found decorating burial chambers or engraved into the surface of bronze artefacts. One example is also known that was carved into the trunk of a tree.
