Posted on 08/01/2024 6:49:20 PM PDT by george76
Archeologists in the Czech Republic uncovered a hoard of artifacts, including weapons and jewelry, from 3,600 years ago.
Researchers were surveying the town of Budyně nad Ohří, roughly 40 miles from Prague, in 2023 when they found eight axes, one spearhead, eight arm rings and two pins, Prague Morning reported Thursday.
The artifacts are believed to be from the Bronze Age, which spanned across the years 3,300 B.C. to 1,200 B.C., the outlet reported. This period is characterized by the shift in tool-making in Europe as people began using bronze, an alloy created from mixing copper and tin, instead of stone, abridging to the outlet.
Martin Trefný, the curator of the hoard and professor at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně and the Museum of the Říp Region, told Live Science the functions behind these artifacts
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Axes could have been used as tools or weapons. The latter function also applies to the spearhead,” Trefný told the outlet. “Bracelets were forearm ornaments, and pins served either to fasten clothing or, for example, to style women’s hair.”
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these items were purposefully buried underground and have three different theories to suggest why.
“In the first case, the hoards are presumed to have a votive function, meaning they served as offerings to deities,” Trefný told Live Science. “In the second case, we speak of an economic function, where hoards are interpreted as, for example, storage for manufacturers of the given items.”
Another theory suggests the artifacts could have been buried due to “a crisis situation, where it was necessary to hide the items, for example, from enemies,” he told the outlet.
Trefný told Live Science the hoard of items “contributes to understanding the warfare, craft techniques and contemporary fashion of the time.”
“Considering that hoards might have a ritual significance, they can also reveal a bit about the contemporary religion,” he added.
The items are soon set to be displayed at the Podřipské Museum in Roudnice nad Labem, Czechia, according to Prague Morning.
When the enemy is coming you bury your valuables.
Ancient lakebed reveals the spoils of a tragic boating accident?
I think they were weapons and not tools.
Motto against rival gang carved into tablet.
When you’re a Budyně Basher
you’re a Budyně Basher all the way
from your first spear and axe
to your last dying day
You’re with Budyně all the way.
What is the origin of “tragic boating accident”? The substitute for Joe Pags (Joe Pagliarulo Show) tonight said he still owns on AR but he lost his other AR’s in a tragic boating accident. Is it from a movie?
Like “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” or something?
He also said the TV networks have been deleting and suppressing videos showing Kamala as the border czar or promising to take guns away or destroying private health insurance without waiting for Congress.
Said her history is disappearing and she will only be known as the reborn Jesus Christ for the country.
Post of the day.
1177 B.C. is an interesting time. Civilization collapsed. Historians are still debating about how it happened. I mention this because this recent discovery could provide more clues.
Jewelry and weapons? Sounds like it was a helluva party.
Oh nooooo! It’s an axe nut! It’s an arsenal! Nobody needs more than 1 axe! And an underbarrel spear head attachment! Only death and destruction can happen with such a military depot of military weapons! Are those axes registered? Are they stored with their cutting edges locked away? Come on, man!
Thank you. Don’t know how I missed it.
LOL. That’s funny.
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