Note 174 — Chapter IV · THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS.

I can hardly understand why Dr. Evans (p. 5) insists upon these sockets being bronze, as they could ‘hardly have been done from a metal so difficult to cast as unalloyed copper.’ He greatly undervalues the metallurgy of the Exodist Hebrews, who would have borrowed their science from Egypt.