Rudna Glava
Rudna Glava (Ore Head) is a mining site in present-day eastern Serbia that demonstrates one of the earliest evidences of European copper mining and metallurgy, dating to the 5th millennium BC[1]. Shafts were cut into the hillside, with scaffolding constructed for easy access to the veins of ore. It belongs to the Vinča culture[2], as is shown by pottery-finds.
Another early mine is located at Ai Bunar near Stara Zagora in Bulgaria.
Sources and external links
- Borislav Jovanović, Rudna Glava, najstarije rudarstvo bakra na centralnom Balkanu. Bor, Muzej rudarstva i metalurgije/Beograd, Arheološki institut 1982.
- J. P. Mallory and Martin E. Huld, "Metal", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
- https://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikacija/casopisi/starinar/XLIX_*ns/d16/document
- Archeology - Archaeometallurgy
- https://www.greatorme.freeserve.co.uk/Literature%20Review.htm
- https://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab16
- Encarta Bronze Age article
References
- ^ https://www.muzeuluniriialba.ro/docs/apulum/articole/40.%20sentmiklosi.pdf
- ^ Tasić, 1995, p. 157.