Hundreds of metal artefacts were found from the Late Bronze Age (second half of 2nd millennium BCE): ca.
200 blade weapons, 140 metal vessels, some working tools, small arrowheads, and decorative objects. All
the blades analyzed  were made of tin bronze and most of all the other copper-based objects are either tin bronze alloy or have tin in their metal as impurity.
At this stage, large quantities of copper and tin ingots (i.e., 10 tons of Cu and 3 tons of Sn ingots in one cargo of Uluburun shipwreck from the 14th century BCE) were found all over the coasts of the Mediterranean and in several shipwrecks under the sea, mainly off the southern coast of Turkey. In Canaan at that time, Cypriot, Egyptian, Syrian, and Mesopotamian types of bronze objects were found, besides the local Canaanite metal collection. These were all basically made of tin bronze. The “prestige” objects like sickle blade swords or cast-hilt daggers were alloyed with highquality (11–13% by weight) Sn, whereas the simpler and probably less expensive objects had lower levels of tin in the metal.