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… the countries to the South of the mountain zone, towards the South, cradle of the bronze industry and where we observe a clear regression
there were earthquakes which constantly threatened and on several occasions have devastated so many urban centres in Asia Minor and the neighbouring countries to the South of the Caspian. The mining regions also have been affected by these phenomena. But the main cause was probably the impoverishment of the copper and then easily accessible<s>/ tin mines until now until then exploited exploited then exploited — for soon some millennium in these countries and and whose rich and profitable veins with the means of exploitation then at their disposal must then the miners little began to disappear. Hence the need to discover of which must have caused<s>/ other deposits, and the exodus of of a | Thus is also explained virgin<s>/ part of the population of miners and of | explains the the regression metal craftsmen. towards In the | of the bronze industry observable Aegean, of Cyprus<s>/ excavations of the deposits of Syria, put an end to | and of this which is observed the Middle Bronze<s>/ [illegible] all [illegible] | [illegible] in the deposits
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