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.”
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Thank you, that thorough mineralogy study pretty much accurately reveals the whole story. Most of the Bronze Age gold originated in the Sandrissi, Georgia area.Imagine it finding its way all that distance to Ur.
THe trade routes must have been well used and there must have been good security available as well.
Gold buyer
I have seen youtubes of guys in russia pulling huge nuggets out of streams in russia.
One low tech method for gold recovery in rocky streams in Colchis (Georgia) was to secure a sheepskin on the rocky bottom. The gold being heavier would be captured by the wool while other debris would mostly wash over the sheepskin. After a time they would take the sheep skin and dry it and recover the captured gold dust and flakes. (I assume by beating it out and scraping the wool off and incinerating it.)
There was a National Geographic article about Jason and the Golden Fleece that showed a picture of a fleece in a shallow stream but I cant find it. (A pre internet article!Maybe 30-40 years ago. )
A modern analogue involve portable panning machines that have a piece of rug to capture gold dust when you are sluicing.
I would only give you $.10 for your picture of gold on the internet! You should takes Al’s $80 offer while you can!
The Trojan bitcoin must have doubled in value about 9000 times by now!
Thanks! Colchis was the first place that came to mind.
While there is no replacement for Gold , there are other commodity minerals to invest in. Mountain Pass (MP) is currently operating in California targeting REE minerals. (That they send to China to Process!) NioCorp (NIOBF) is developing the Elk Creek mine and extraction facility in Nebraska, which focuses on Alloy metals Niobium, Scandium, and Titanium and probably a number of REE minerals like Dysprosium and Neodymium (Magnets).especially since the mine is on private land. Texas Mineral Corp is developing a REE and Beryllium mine in Round Top Texas. These are critical minerals necessary to defense and Green initiatives that the Admin is unlikely to curtail.
Ancient “Bite” Coin!! IIRC, 1 oz of Gold 2000 years ago would purchase about 340 loaves of bread. Current price of gold is approx $1700, current price of a loaf of decent bread about $4.50 (NOT Wonder Sponge bread!) is about 377 loaves. So the gold is holding its equivalent value pretty well!
Still haven’t identified Solomon’s Mines..................
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