412 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAR xr. 



From this it may be inferred that the supply of bronze 

 was obtained from some one centre, and that afterwards 

 articles were manufactured with various local modifica- 

 tions of the original models. These would be very 

 easily produced, from the readiness with which moulds 

 could be made in soft materials, such as clay and sand. 

 In this manner the resemblances and the differences 

 between the European bronzes may be satisfactorily 

 explained. 



Knowledge of Bronze derived from Asia Minor. 



* 



The observations of Worsaae * on the colonisation of 

 Russia and North Scandinavia, 2 and the recent work of 

 Kohn and Mehlis, 3 prove that the bronzes of Germany, 

 Scandinavia, western Europe, and the Mediterranean, 

 are not derived from the great plains of Eussia, ex- 

 tending to the Urals and the Caucasus, since the bronze 

 implements in those districts are unlike those of the rest 

 of Europe, and are to a large extent of a later date. 

 The only other region from which bronze could have 

 been derived is Asia Minor. In Worsaae's opinion 

 it was introduced by way of the Bosphorus. It was 

 probably discovered in some metalliferous region in 

 central Asia, from which it was distributed by means of 

 barter, as well as by the migrations of peoples, from such 

 a centre, for example, as Khorasan, mentioned in treating 

 of the distribution of tin. If this view be accepted, it 

 will follow that bronze was used in the south long 

 before it was known in the north of Europe ; and the 



1 Keller, Lake-Dwellings, 2d. edit., p. 557. 



2 Sur la Colonisation de la Russie, et du Nord Scandinave, 8vo. 



3 Vorgesdiichte des Menschen in ostlichen Europa, Jena, 1879. 



