Notes on two gold wires of Gumelniţa culture Cover Image

Note despre două sârme din aur din cultura Gumelniţa
Notes on two gold wires of Gumelniţa culture

Author(s): Ana Ilie, Katia Moldoveanu, Migdonia Georgescu
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Keywords: Romania;Eneolithic;Gumelnita culture; gold artefacts

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the authors present two gold wires, discovered in the Gumelniţa tell settlements from Morteni, Dâmboviţa County and Balaci, Teleorman County. The authors take into consideration the possibility that these wires represent one of the forms of gold circulation in the Chalcolithic period. While exploring this possibility there are used the typological arguments and the latest chemical analysis of Gumelniţa gold pieces from South and North of Danube are brought into discussion. The results of the XRF analysis of the two golden wires are also presented.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 139-150
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian