Anthropology

the Middle East since the time of the Phoenicians.

During the Bronze Age, Phoenicians went as far as the British Isles for tin which is a necessary alloy for bronze. There were tin mines in what is now southwestern England. Two routes to England were through Gibraltar and up the Atlantic Coast or on north/south rivers in what is now France. They reached the Baltic Sea and began a trade in Scandinavia for Amber.

Merchants settled in SW England, forming a colony there. Mediterranean goods were imported to England and tin was exported. The ancient Israelites sailed on Phoenician ships and settled in southern France and Spain.