Posted on 06/19/2016 5:30:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 6,500-year-old grave of a man holding in his hands a stone ax scepter has been discovered by archaeologists excavating a recently found necropolis from from the Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) in the town of Kamenovo, Kubrat Municipality, Razgrad District, in Northeast Bulgaria.
A total of seven graves were found in the Chalcolithic necropolis in Kamenovo when it was first discovered back in September 2015. However, these were all graves of women and children (of the Mediterranean anthropological type), with the newly discovered grave being the first male grave to be found there to date, reports local news site Darik Razgrad.
Shortly before finding the necropolis, in the spring of 2015, the same archaeological team discovered in Kamenovo a 6,500-year-old Chalcolithic workshop for flint tools (still containing a large number of completed or unfinished flint tools).
Now the team led by Assoc. Prof. Yavor Boyadzhiev from the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia and Dimitar Chernakov from the Ruse Regional Museum of History, and Dilen Dilov from the Razgrad Regional Museum of History as the deputy head of the expedition, have continued their excavations of the Chalcolithic necropolis in Kamenovo...
Inside the grave, the archaeologists also found a bead from the shell of the Spondylus mollusk which was harvested in the Mediterranean in prehistoric times. According to Boyadzhiev, the man might have worn the bead on his neck but the researchers are yet to figure out whether the adornment consisted of a single bead or more beads.
Spondylus mollusk beads were also found in some of the graves discovered in 2015. Their presence has been interpreted as a testimony to the commercial ties that the region of today’s Northeast Bulgaria had with the Mediterranean coast during the Copper Age.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeologyinbulgaria.com ...
The newly discovered grave from 4,500-4,300 BC which has been found in the Chalcolithic necropolis in Bulgaria’s Kamenovo. Photo: archaeologist Dilen Dilov
Thank you for posting this.
What’s an ax sceptre exactly? It looks more like a walking stick.
I think they're trying to turn the bones into a former king. More grant money that way...
4500 BC - Bulgaria would have been close to Anatolia and Sumeria for trading. Very interesting. Thanks for posting, SC
That’s almost as amazing as the skeleton itself.
It is interesting; Colin Renfrew et al identified the trade in obsidian (seagoing, as well as overland) going back to 14000 BC.
Let me look that up - thanks
Holding an axe as the symbol of power isn’t that unusual. The local council heads in some places in Europe, even today, carry wood scepters carved to appear to have an axe head somewhere along their length. That’s what it means. “I’m holding the axe in a position where I am ready to strike, because I’m the leader.”
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=The+Obsidian+Trade&gbv=1
images (mostly maps it looks like)
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=The+Obsidian+Trade&gbv=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
Too many zeroes?
My pleasure.
It’s good to be the King.
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