The women from the Ølby site. The site was excavated in 1880 by Sophus Müller. Next to the woman's left arm was a blue glass bead (from Egypt), two amber beads, and two small bronze spirals.
Posted on 12/09/2014 5:22:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...The analyses revealed that the glass originate from the same glass workshops in Egypt that supplied the glass that the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun took with him to his grave in 1323 BC...
Globalisation in the Bronze Age
Twenty-three glass beads from Denmark were analysed using plasma-spectrometry. Without destroying the fragile beads, this technique makes it possible to compare the chemical composition of trace elements in the beads with reference material from Amarna in Egypt and Nippur in Mesopotamia, about 50 km south east of Baghdad in Iraq. The comparison showed that the chemical composition of the two sets of trace elements match.
The researchers' first object for comparison was a bead from a wealthy woman's grave at Ølby, about 40 km south of Copenhagen. The woman had been buried in a more extravagant fashion, lying in a hollowed-out oak trunk and wearing a beautiful belt disc, a smart string skirt with tinkling, shining small bronzes tubes, and an overarm bracelet made of amber beads, and a single blue glass bead.
The glass bead turned out to be Egyptian. This is the first time that typical Egyptian cobalt glass has been discovered outside the Mediterranean area...
The old amber route to the countries in the Mediterranean thus now has a counterpart: the glass route to the North.
So far, the researchers have shown that there was a trade connection to Egypt and Mesopotamia in the years 1400-1100 BC. Finding out whether the route continued in the later Bronze Age is a future task for the Danish-French research team.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenordic.com ...
The women from the Ølby site. The site was excavated in 1880 by Sophus Müller. Next to the woman's left arm was a blue glass bead (from Egypt), two amber beads, and two small bronze spirals.
this is interesting. trading in the Med during the period was very widespread apparently.
Very interesting indeed!
thanks once again SunkenCiv!
Ancient 1%er
Nice skull high cheekbones.
May have looked a little like Tricia Helfer.
The first "tomb raiders" were Norwegians? ;)
Perhaps Silasious took them with him when he left Egypt???
Is it likely that the bead wound up that far from its origin due to being plundered from elsewhere?
Trade is likely as old as walking on two legs.
True. But so is plundering, I am betting.
Hey! Maybe I am just showing some sort of bias toward the Danes. :)
The Danes weren’t in Denmark anywhere near that early. :’)
Sez you. :)
And the Jutes were there before the Danes.
They’re knot anymore.
It really Geats to you, huh?
Fascinating, but why should we be surprised that their was trade in those days?
Note: this topic is from 12/09/2014. Just adding.
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