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.[dead link][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. In 1983, Rudna Glava was added to the Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance list, protected by Republic of Serbia.[3]
Another early mine is located at Ai Bunar near Stara Zagora in Bulgaria.
See also
Sources and external links
- Borislav Jovanović, Rudna Glava, najstarije rudarstvo bakra na centralnom Balkanu. Bor, Muzej rudarstva i metallurgije/Beograd, Arheološki institut 1982.
- J. P. Mallory and Martin E. Huld, "Metal", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
- http://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikacija/casopisi/starinar/XLIX_*ns/d16/document
- Archeology - Archaeometallurgy
- http://www.greatorme.freeserve.co.uk/Literature%20Review.htm
- http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab16
References
- ^ http://www.muzeuluniriialba.ro/docs/apulum/articole/40.%20sentmiklosi.pdf
- ^ Tasić 1995, p. 157
- ^ Monuments of Culture in Serbia: Рудна Глава (SANU) (in Serbian and English)