 It starts with the Aegean Bronze Age in 3200 BC
(succeeded by the Beaker culture), and spans the entire 2nd millennium BC (Unetice culture, Tumulus culture, Terramare culture, Urnfield culture and Lusatian culture) in Northern Europe, lasting until c. 600 BC.A study in the journal Antiquity from 2013 reported the discovery of a tin bronze foil from the Pločnik (archaeological site) dated to c. 4650 BC as well as 14 other artefacts from Serbia and Bulgaria dated to before 4000 BC showed that early tin bronze was more common than previously thought, and developed independently in Europe 1500 years before the first tin bronze alloys in the Near East.The production of complex tin bronzes lasted for c. 500 years in the Balkans.