The present article presents a review of a singular find of a copper pin together with Bell Beaker items in a cave inMorocco. Although in the first publication of this piece Georges Souville already established a connection of the pin tothe so called “Cypriot” knot-headed pins of Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, this piece never found theattention it deserved and never entered in the distribution maps of this type of pins. The recent publication of newmetal analysis of the pin and the accompanying Palmela point even led to a rejection of this identification and its chalcolithicdating and the assumption of a Early Iron Age/Phoenician chronology. Here we review again the whole contextand the findings and their potential analogies. Finally the identification as a “Cypriot” knot-headed pin will be affirmedand the finding is seen as part of the Late Chalcolithic exchange of ivory and other prestige-goods between theNear East, the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula
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