Pardon my levity, but it was such a slow pitch that I had to swing at it.
Posted on 10/24/2005 5:02:52 PM PDT by blam
Experts excavate oldest worked metal in Europe
SOFIA (bnn)- Archaeologists found the oldest worked metal in Europe while excavating an early Neolithic village near the village of Dzhulyunitza in central Bulgaria, state TV reported Sunday.
The 3 metal finds are 8,000 years old. The experts found signs of cold treatment during which the metal pieces were transformed into beads. The extraordinary find gives a new direction in the research of the prehistoric people who lived on Bulgarian territory. Only the worked metal pieces found in Anatolia, which is the Asian part of Turkey, is older (11,000 years) than the find in Dzhulyunitza. According to the chief archaeologist Nedko Eleneski the discovered worked copper beads prove the presence of intensive contacts with Asia even in that early age. “It should be known that the treatment of copper was familiar back in the earliest ages known as the Preceramic Neolith. In our case we can say that this is the most ancient metal find for the Balkan Peninsula and for Europe as a whole,” Elenski said. The archeological research near Dzhulyunitza is financed by a project of the Archaeological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). Last year experts discovered in the same village relics from the earliest Neolithic funeral, which is 8, 300 years old.
GGG Ping.
Pardon my levity, but it was such a slow pitch that I had to swing at it.
Genesis 4 - The Family of Cain
16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son--Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.
19 Then Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.
20 And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21 His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute.
22 And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron.
Is that Lemmy? He grew a beard over the mole!
Can anyone explain how he arrived at that conclusion? Native metallic copper occurs in a wide range of locations around the world, not just Asia, and 8,000 years ago may have been found in Bulgarian streams as placers. Am I missing something here?
I think the key word is 'worked'.
BTW, thanks for your recent Olmec links to Mike Xu's work re: Shang Dynasty. I hadn't run into that previously and I'm having lots of fun looking into it. Any links to critics of Xu's theory? The Shang migration would explain a lot, but I think extraordinary proof is needed for such an extraordinary claim. Still, I'm sure Asians were part of the Olmec blossoming.
"There are at least two major sources of native copper in the Near East; one in central Iran near Anarek, the other in central Anatolia, Turkey. Native copper could be hammered into shapes without any knowledge of smelting or refining, so was the first use of the metal by ancients. It was very rare and thus very special. Copper ore was first discovered, it is generally believed, in north-western Iran or in the Caucasus, and was perhaps originally obtained from Azerbaijan or Armenia. Soon, however, were found alternative sources of supplies, such as Anatolia (which later produced iron), Cyprus and the country which has been tentatively identified with the mountainous part of Oman. "
You're welcome...you know I love this stuff, lol.
Now, about the Olmec, they are an enignamatic bunch. I've posted pictures of statues salvaged from some Olmec sites and some have clearly Caucasian features and one that looked like a Jewish Rabi along with the Asian looking ones .
The tree rings recorded a worldwide catastrophic event around the time of the Shang Dynasty collapse, 1159BC. That event may have put a lot of different people 'to sea' and they all merged to become the Olmec, we may never know for sure.
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