Un arqueólogo cree que una pequeña cuenta que se descubrió en Bulgaria es la pieza de oro que tiene el récord de ser la pieza de oro más antigua que se ha trabajado. La preciada baratija fue encontrada por investigadores en un asentamiento que tenía 6.600 años. Este asentamiento ostenta el récord de ser el asentamiento o pueblo “urbano” más antiguo de Europa.
La pequeña cuenta tiene 1/8 de pulgada (4 mm) de diámetro. Probablemente se hizo en el asentamiento, que se encuentra en las afueras de la ciudad de Pazardzhik, en el sur de Bulgaria, informa Reuters. Estará en exhibición en el museo de la ciudad de Pazardzhik después de que los restauradores lo limpien y los expertos hagan una confirmación final sobre su edad.
“It’s a really important discovery,” Dr. Boyadzhiev told Reuters. “It is a tiny piece of gold but big enough to find its place in history.”He called the town Europe’s first urban settlement, a prototype of a modern town in Mesopotamian standards of civilization. He said a “highly cultured society” of people lived there after moving from Anatolia around 8,000 years ago.
Around 4100 BC, tribes coming from the northeast invaded and destroyed the town, he said.
He added that this town predates the civilization of Sumer of southern Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq by more than a thousand years. Sumer is widely considered to be the first civilization in the world.
The town or settlement measures between 25 to 30 acres (10 to 12 hectares). Archaeologists believe it had a defensive wall standing 9 feet (2.8 meters). In Mesopotamia, researchers consider a prehistoric settlement of more than 0.7 to 0.8 hectares as a town, Boyadzhiev told Reuters.
Most people have heard of the great civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley, which are all noted for being the earliest known civilizations to feature urbanization, organized administration, and cultural innovation. But few have heard of the mysterious civilization that emerged on the shores of lakes of the Black Sea some 7,000 years ago in Bulgaria.
The Varna culture, as it has come to be known, was not a small and inconsequential society that emerged in a little corner of Bulgaria and disappeared quickly into the pages of history. Rather, it was an amazingly advanced civilization, more ancient than the empires of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and the first known culture to craft golden artifacts.
Varna is also now home to the largest known prehistoric necropolis in southeastern Europe, which reflects a richness in cultural practices, complex funerary rites, an ancient belief system, and the capacity to produce exquisite and expertly-crafted goods. It has come to be known as the cradle of civilization in Europe.
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