Oldest Hoard Of Jewelry Yet Found In Europe, 8000 Years Old From Serbia
Jewelry and female figurines from Belica, Serbia, to be exhibited for the first time at Tübingen University Museum.
The unique hoard is comprised of some 80 objects made of stone, clay and bone. “This collection from Belica, in all its completeness, provides a unique glimpse into the symbols of the earliest farmers and herdsmen in Europe,” says Tübingen archeologist Dr. Raiko Krauss, who heads the German side of the project.
The objects include stylized female figures, parts of the human body, as well as miniature axes and abstract figures. Much attention has been given to the rotund female figures of water-smoothed stone given human features by human hands. Were they idols, lucky charms or fertility symbols? Their purpose is unknown.
The stone objects are mainly of serpentinite from an ophiolite belt running some 40km west of the Belica site. The rock was washed out of the mountains and worn smooth by rivers and streams. Neolithic artists then selected the pebbles they wanted from the valleys.
Archeologists mapped the outline of an Early Neolithic settlement in June of this year using the distribution of finds on the surface as a guide. In the middle, they found the largely undisturbed hoard. Using modern geophysical prospection methods, they were able to bring buried parts of the set-tlement to light during summer excavations.
“Important finds like this should be prominently displayed in the Serbian National Museum,” says Krauss of the hoard. “But the National Museum in Belgrade has been closed since the civil war.” So Krauss is working with his Serbian colleagues on an exhibition at the University of Tübingen Museum in Hohentübingen Castle. The modern world will first get to see the Belica hoard there in the winter semester of 2013/14. The hoard, and the results of the current investigation, are to be published in German and Serbian.
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Oo look porn stash figurines from antiquity
What no Bling?
Looks like rocks to me…
Dem fools must be trippin…
How did they date it?
You would-a-thunk that there would have been at least ONE picture of the “hoard”. Wouldn’t you? Two’s company, three’s a crowd. What’s a hoard?
We only have two pictures…
But there are billions of water-worn stones. Perhaps there was a smart guy who didn’like to go hunting huge dangerous animals, but passed his days searching the river beds for naturally beautiful stones and traded them on the local market. If the archeologists found what was left of his storage room, then the coincidence of finding beautiful shaped natural stones is of course much more elevated.
Ugly — no wonder they buried it!
Several methods of dating artifacts are used in combination to gain a date. Radio carbon dating using organic matter in clay ie from bit’s of wood, soil or shells. Bone is especially easy to radio carbon date. Stone artifacts can’t be radio carbon dated because it contains no organic matter. The other method is to use sediment layers and the carbon elements in the sediment, to estimate when they were left unattended or buried. Both together give an idea of age, usually given as a range. Recent advances in the technology has show the earlier dates from carbon dating ranges are more likely.
Carbon dating on Pix would ascertain mental development lower than the water-worn rocks being passed off as ancient “jewelry” by this dopey article that nobody except Pix takes seriously.
For once I, inexplicably, agree with Pix. You are absolutely correct. In addition, for neolithic artifacts, dating is made “contextually”. That is, either debris attached to the stone or contextual datable materials (such as human bones) found within immediate contextual proximity. Therefore the date is always the “latest date” and therefore something 8000 years old might have actually been around for 80,000 years or even 80,000,000 years in its present form.
For the mindless comment to the information Pix provided, the quanity of “accidental” stone formations defies natural order as currently recorded. It also contextually does compute. No doubt the pre-Olmec/Mayan/Inca statues and pyramids were all a tragic fluke of nature too according to your logic.