{"title":"The Bronze Age Copper Mines of the Goleen Area, Co. Cork","authors":"W. O'brien","doi":"10.3318/PRIC.2003.103.1.13","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The availability of raw material was an important factor in the increasing use of metal in Early Bronze Age Ireland. The emergence of mining centres and the establishment of supply networks had important implications for economic and social relations. This paper considers a group of Bronze Age copper mines in the Goleen area of the Mizen peninsula, Co. Cork. These sites date to the early second millennium BC, and are part of a distribution of Mount Gabriel-type mines in the west Cork area.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIC.2003.103.1.13","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The availability of raw material was an important factor in the increasing use of metal in Early Bronze Age Ireland. The emergence of mining centres and the establishment of supply networks had important implications for economic and social relations. This paper considers a group of Bronze Age copper mines in the Goleen area of the Mizen peninsula, Co. Cork. These sites date to the early second millennium BC, and are part of a distribution of Mount Gabriel-type mines in the west Cork area.