1. осла кормить надо и управлять, а корабли сделать надо, а для этого инструмент нужен всякий: топор, пила, коловорот и пр. вообщем много ещё чего, что появилось гораздо позже!
2. даю без перевода, извините:
A Copper Age preceded the Bronze Age in certain countries, but has not been proved to have existed in Britain.
It is easy to imagine that the accidental melting of a piece of copper ore may have suggested the possibility of fashioning the metal into tools; and that inventive cutlers took impressions of stone axes in clay, and found that they could make from them copper axes which were not liable to break: 1 but one can hardly believe that simultaneously the discovery should have been made that the softness and bluntness of copper could be remedied by mixing with it a small proportion of tin.
оно конечно представить легко, но поверить в это трудно!
The discovery that ores could be smelted must have been acci- dental.
то бишь хотел вроде как картошки испечь, а вдруг получилась бронза!
извините даю без полного перевода: Корнуэл, например:
There is little evidence that Roman rule was effective west of Exeter and few Roman remains have been found.
evidence та little!?
Historically tin mining was important in the Cornish economy, becoming significant during the Middle Ages and expanding greatly during the 19th century when rich copper mines were also in production. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, the tin and copper trades entered a period of decline.
красиво пишут: "исторически" ...и сразу раз скачок к средним векам!
Nevertheless, the Cornovii were sufficiently established in the present day area recognised as Cornwall for their territory to be recorded as Cornubia by 700 AD, and remained as such into the Middle Ages.
An oak tinners’ shovel found in Boscarne tin stream (Bodmin Moor) has been radiocarbon dated to between AD 635 and AD 1045. Church bells, whose bronze depended on Cornish tin, were widespread by AD 1000.
так что неоднозначно всё с древней добычей руды и металлургией в Древнем мире, вкл Британию, есть знаете технические и технологические проблемы, которые были решены гораздо позже...
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