tin. All of this can be accomplished with Bronze Age tools and methods. The Kestel mine stopped producing at the end of the third millennium BC. J.D. Muhly has criticized the reconstruction proposed by Yener. He noted that no ores with high tin mineral contents were found; that the ores found may be more useful for iron mining; that the radiocarbon dating provided allows for setting the expansion of the mine in a much later time; that no significant bronze artefact are known from southeastern Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age; that tin extraction with the Kestel crucibles would require manipulation of microscopic slag particles; that Middle Bronze Age Assyrian records point to tin trade - sourced in the east - that extended into Anatolia; that no textual evidence of any period refers to tin extraction on Anatolia. See also K. Aslihan Yener References THE 1993 EXCAVATION SEASON AT GOLTEPE, TURKEY. K. Ashhan Yener Yount, Lisa (1996). Twentieth Century Women Scientists. New York: Facts on File. . Archaeological sites of prehistoric Anatolia Çamardı District cbk-zam:Kestel sw:Kestel ru:Кестель tr:Kestel, Bursa