2nd millennium BCE of a wreck of a catamaran in Ayn Sukhna and discovery of three pure tin ingots with Indus Script inscriptions in Haifa, Israel. This monograph presents archaeometallurgical and maritime trade evidences of ca. These resources reached through an Ancient Maritime Tin Route to all parts of Eurasia, mediated by Indian metalsmiths and seafaring Meluhha merchant guilds.
The tin (cassiterite ore) resource came from the largest Tin belt of the globe in Ancient Far East by the Himalayan rivers grinding down granite rocks to accumulate huge tin ore placer deposits on the Mekong, Irawaddy, Salween river basins. 5th millennium BCE when the problem of scarcity of arsenical bronzes was oveercome by the invention of a tin-bronze alloy.
Evidences for tin provided by archaeometallurgical investigations are exemplars of the Tin-Bronze Revolution which started ca.
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