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Good work making women in archaeology less invisible.
The part about thinking phoenicians kick-started the bronze age in northern Europe is fairly typical for the era with the assumptions that "barbarians" would be incapable of innovation and organisation.
BTW also interesting that they credited phoenicians with this, considering the racist beliefs of the time. Conflict between two stereotypes. "Barbarians= stupid". "Brown people = stupid". The first stereotype won out.

By BirgerJohansson (not verified) on 18 Jan 2015 #permalink

Phoenicians: Sven Nilsson probably didn't think Stone Age Scandies were stupid. But he knew that in the absence of tin ore, Scandies could not have invented bronze metallurgy. He believed that each new period was brought on by invaders. After all it was amply documented that the arrival of Greeks, Romans and Normans to various parts of Europe had changed the culture there.