Ancient Germany's Metal Traders

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Ancient Germany's Metal Traders

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Ancient Germany's Metal Traders

By Andrew Curry
Archaeology, Volume 65 Number 3, May/June 2012
http://www.archaeology.org/1205/

http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/04/ancient-germanys-metal-traders.html

A post-Cold War construction boom is exposing evidence of
a powerful Bronze Age culture

[image: bronze ax heads uncovered by a bulldozer near the
German town of Dermsdorf]

Weapon hoards dating to around 3,000 years ago, such as
bronze ax heads uncovered by a bulldozer near the German
town of Dermsdorf, have been discovered throughout
Central Europe. The hoards indicate that the metal trade
was a major source of wealth and power in the area during
the Bronze Age. (Courtesy Thuringian State Office for
Heritage Management and Archaeology)

On the morning of May 11, 2011, Mario Küssner looked on
as a bulldozer shaved a layer of soil a few inches deep
from a roadside field near the eastern German village of
Dermsdorf. Küssner, a staff archaeologist for the state
of Thuringia, was brought in before the scheduled
construction of a highway on-ramp would begin. He knew
that his team of archaeologists was working atop a
medieval site, but the bulldozer uncovered something even
more surprising—a handful of dull green ax heads lying in
the soil. For the rest of that day, the bulldozer was
banished as the archaeologists meticulously dug the site
by hand. Their careful work revealed a clay jar standing
a foot-and-a-half tall packed with 100 bronze ax heads
dating to the Bronze Age—more than 3,000 years ago. The
ax heads would have represented a tremendous amount of
wealth at a time when bronze was in high demand for
weapons and tools. What they were doing buried outside of
Dermsdorf became the question.

“We had had signs of a settlement from the Middle Ages,
but we had no clue there were Bronze Age finds,” says
Küssner. Before uncovering the ax heads, the only things
the team had turned up were post molds—dark stains in the
soil that show where wooden posts had once been planted
as a frame for a house. With the discovery of the axes,
Küssner and his team began taking a harder look at the
surrounding area. Soon they found more post molds, dozens
of them, enough to trace where the walls of a structure
35 feet wide and nearly 150 feet long had been. Based on
the width of the walls and the spacing of the posts,
Küssner estimates that the roof’s peak would have been
nearly 30 feet above the ground. Inside the walls, a
double row of posts ran the length of the building,
creating a central chamber. Altogether, the structure
covered 5,000 square feet, making it the biggest Bronze
Age structure discovered north of the Alps. The ax heads
were buried at the southern end of the house, where the
front door might once have been.

http://www.archaeology.org/1205/features/bronze_age.html

Sarasvati
http://sites.google.com/site/kalyan97

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