Tag: Bronze Age
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British Teenager Discovers Rare Bronze Age Ax Hoard
The Cool Finds column blog at Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of Bronze Age axes. Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, stumbled onto a cache of 65 artifacts dated to around 1300 B.C.E, while on a metal detecting outing. Milly Hardwick was searching for buried treasure in a field in Hertfordshire, England,…
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Facial reconstruction shows powerful Bronze Age woman’s serene expression and huge earrings
Live Science has a story about some facial reconstruction performed on a Bronze Age woman’s skull. Researchers in Spain, discovered the remains of the woman in 2014. She was buried with lavish jewelry – including a diadem, beaded necklaces, silver-crafted rings, bracelets, spiral hairpieces and earplugs with spirals, as well as a silver-rimmed drinking pot…
