Årupgård deposit found

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The Årupgård depot find west of Horsens in Jutland in Denmark dates from the early Neolithic between 3500 and 3300 BC. It was recovered in 1958 during the gravel extraction in Årupgård. Spiral rings made of copper wire from the south ( Cucuteni-Tripolje culture - 4800-3500 BC) were found under an upside-down shattered clay vessel with more than 270 amber beads . The shards could be reconstructed into an undecorated vessel with five tabs attached deeply to the body. Apart from one vessel on Rügen , no similar ones are known outside of Denmark.

The amber

The amber find consists of 271 pearls and 177 fragments. They can be divided into unshaped lumps of natural amber and cylindrical and conical pearls that the amber was shaped into. All types of pearls are known from Denmark's early Neolithic period. Judging by the signs of use, the pearls have formed necklaces. On Danish soil, 57 amber treasures from this prehistoric period are known, which contain a very different number of pearls.

The copper objects

The copper objects consist of three small and two long spiral cylinders, two spiral finger rings and a cylinder made of sheet copper.

Another victim was found in Bygholm , four kilometers from Årupgård, with objects made of copper . It also contained four flat axes and three spiral arm rings. The copper objects were in an early funnel beaker from the so-called Fuchsberg phase from around 3400 BC. Chr.

Even older copper finds were found in one of the long hills of the "Konens-Høj-Type" in Barkjær in Jutland. They are the earliest copper finds in the north and date from around 3600 BC. BC, a time in which the Mediterranean Copper Age was just beginning, and initially only reach Jutland.

Small metal finds (gold and copper) also occurred in Denmark, Mecklenburg and Pomerania between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC erected megalithic structures . This was the reason why the flint spectrum of the funnel beaker people created shapes that cannot be explained without the metal models.

The oldest evidence of European copper comes from Serbia ( Pločnik ) in the 6th millennium BC. However, they came to an early end, because a fire destroyed around 5000 BC. The place. It wasn't until a thousand years later that people began to use bronze.

See also

literature

  • Klaus Ebbesen: The Nordic amber hoards of the funnel cup culture In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift. Volume 70, Issue 1, 1995, pages 32-89, ISSN  1613-0804
  • Gerald Görmer: Neolithic Depots in Southeast and Central Europe and South Scandinavia. Comments on their interpretation. Ethnographic archaeol. Magazine 46, 2005, pp. 449-457.
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 37 (picture)
  • Manfred Rech: Studies on depot finds of the funnel cup and individual grave culture of the north Wachholtz Neumünster 1979 ISBN 3-5290-1139-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Similar vessels are known in Denmark from settlements and peat bogs, but differ greatly in size, decoration and number of tabs
  2. ↑ 7500 year old tools. News on n-tv , September 22, 2009 (accessed October 2, 2013)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′ 28.6 "  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 40.4"  E