Image Credit : Christoph Schwall / Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) ViennaN
Posted on 12/02/2022 8:33:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Researchers from several institutions, led by Ernst Pernicka, scientific director of the Curt-Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry (CEZA) at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim and director of the University of Tübingen’s Troy project, applied a portable laser ablation system (pLA) to analyse samples of Bronze Age jewellery found in Troy and Poliochni...
Poliochne, often cited under its modern name Poliochni, was an ancient settlement on the east coast of the island of Lemnos. It was settled in the Late Chalcolithic and earliest Aegean Bronze Age, and is believed to be one of the most ancient towns in Europe, preceding the construction of Troy I...
Professor Pernicka and the international team has now been able to prove that the treasure derived from secondary deposits such as rivers, and its chemical composition is not only identical with that of gold objects from the settlement of Poliochni on Lemnos and from the royal tombs in Ur in Mesopotamia, but also with that of objects from Georgia. “This means there must have been trade links between these far-flung regions,” says Pernicka...
Comparative archaeological studies have shown strikingly similar items that these were used in the Early Bronze Age across a large geographic area, stretching from the Aegean to the Indus valley in what is now Pakistan: official seals and standardized weights, earrings with the same spiral patterns, gemstones such as lapis lazuli or the shimmering carnelian...
In conclusion, the precise origin of the gold of Troy could not be determined, however, Pernicka says, “If we observe the share of trace elements in the gold from Troy, Poliochni and Ur, Bronze Age gold from Georgia correlates the closest with the stated find sites. But we still lack data and studies from other regions and from other objects to establish this assumption.”
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Very cool.
It does not say how pure these are, how can I value them?
since these have an 18k stamp or some other maker mark they are probably fakes, they look like a junior goldsmiths art project.
I can give you $80 for the lot
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“Gold From Ancient Troy, Poliochni And Ur Had The Same Origin”
Underground?
Sorry, sometimes I type the first thing that comes to mind. Usually the cat’s here to throw herself on the keyboard to save me.
Cats are renowned for their selflessness. ;^)
Please fine Sir, I have 9 children with 6 baby mamas, I can give you $95 I have to make at least some profit.
Since you are such a fine Atlantian gentleman I have these 30 Tyrian silver pieces that the local potter found when he was plowing his field yesterday.
I guarantee that they ill bring you luck
These must be quite rare on your Island, everyone will want one..
I’ll take it Mr. Harrison.
The origin of gold from Colchis, present-day Georgia, fits right in with the ancient story of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
so, the near east bronze age ancients were panning for gold somewhere?
So the gold of that era seemes to have originated in Georgia?
Interesting.
Apparently thats where the gold was known, or easy to find.
So what would make it easy to find? In Georgia?
Not panning. Underground.
No MSHA!!!
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