German brass for Benin Bronzes: Geochemical analysis insights into the early Atlantic trade (IMAGE)

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German brass for Benin Bronzes: Geochemical analysis insights into the early Atlantic trade

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Detail of a manilla bracelet concreted to part of a pot from a Flemish trader excavated by the Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi off Getaria, Basque Country, northern Spain. The ship, lost in 1524, had been chartered by Portuguese merchants from Lisbon.

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Ana Maria Benito-Dominguez, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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