Archivo: 201705 - Balkans - Stone Age king with Earliest Wrought-Gold Artifacts - 39 of 101 - Varna - Varna, May 25, 2017 (41675092201)

Descripción: Varna cemetery found 1976 dated to 5000s BC three graves including oldest known wrought gold

Grave of 35yo king with golden scepter, large gold armbands, buttons from a cloak. Also copper and stone axes Amount of gold in this one grave as much as total gold found anywhere from this same period Shells from Mediterranean -- there was trade We have found necropolis but not the corresponding city Copper came from the SW Black Sea coat and from east Thrace. Varna was metallurgical center for the East Balkan Peninsula Most pots found in graves were smaller shoddier symbolic replicas of pots used in household. Rich graves had full sized pots with thin walls and high aesthetic standard
Autor: Philip Kromer from Austin, TX, USA
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