imports originating in distant regions, large-scale metallurgy production, and manufacture of glass objects (Augstein2006; Salač2009,2012). However, there is considerable
From the ancientNear Eastthe knowledge of iron working was transmitted toGreeceand the Aegean, probably at the beginning of the 1st millenniumbce, whence it spread gradually to the rest of Europe. By the 6th centurybce, it had been widelydisseminatedover central and western Europe. ...