OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, vol.31, no.2, pp.121-141, 2012 (AHCI)
The Late Bronze Age is a period during which intensive transactions occurred in the Mediterranean and Near East. The glass trade became a real industry, exhibiting the innovations of the period from around the region. The glass finds of the Late Bronze Age consisted of valuable gifts exchanged between the elite classes of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Aegean.