"[Metal analyses] demonstrate that communities of quite different sizes and integrated into various types of regional settlement networks were able to successfully tap into Mediterranean transport routes and to organize a constant supply of raw materials by maintaining far-reaching connections . . . . Alpine copper formed the basis for the production of bronze implements, dress accessories, and weapons . . . . One can now reconstruct an export system organized in such a way that this raw material passed through the Adriatic and Ionian seas and reached southern Calabria, where Punta di Zambrone, at the moment, is the southernmost settlement relying on those northern ore deposits . . . . Regarding their geographical extension, the coeval metallurgical and pottery koine of Subappenine (RBA) Italy are without comparison in Urnfield Europe." -- p. 24
"The analytical results of bronze objects from Punta di Zambrone also revealed that the local workshops had access to Cypriot copper."
"The various southern Italian regions and micro-regions each had their own importation, production and consumption patterns for Mycenaean, Minoan and Aegeanising pottery . . . . One can point to the predominantly locally made Mycenaeanising repertoire from Broglio di Trebisacce in the northern Sybaritis [Ionic Calabria]; to the exclusively imported Mycenaean and Minoan assemblage at Punta di Zambrone; and to the unparalleled quantities of painted and even unpainted pots found at Roca Vecchia and including both imported and Apulian products."
"On the Aegean side, the number of sites with well-stratified examples of Subappenine pottery in context with Minoan and Mycenaean ceramics is steadily growing . . . . Around 1200 BCE, when we witness the first rise in frequency of such Italian-related pottery in Greece . . . . One begins to get an impression of the new dynamics those seafarers from the Apennine Peninsula developed in a few decades. Apparently their ventures brought them as far as the Dodecanese, where [one finds] the earliest assemblage of Italian-type bronzes, a spearhead in combination with a Cetona sword in a tomb at Kas-Langadha . . . . The presence of warriors from Italy in this region was probably connected to pirates and in turn to the 'Sea Peoples'"
"As their regular import of copper originating from the Trentino shows, we have no reason to doubt the nautical abilities of the communities inhabiting the coasts of Italy. Some portion of the exotic objects of eastern provenance in their settlements may result from pirate raids; others may have changed hands through reciprocal gift or goods exchange that was able to develop on a more equal footing once the Mycenaean palace bureaucracy was gone"