Bronze Age central Europeans used rings, ribs, axe blade as type of currency
It is impossible to know how much each individual object might be worth in today s money and what they might have been used to buy.
Jan 22, 2021 09:30:58 IST
Central Europeans of the Bronze Age used bronze rings, ribs and axe blades that were roughly standardized in their shape and weight as an early form of euros, according to a new study. The paper by researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands appeared in the journal
PLOS ONE on Wednesday. Money is a defining aspect of modern life, and standardization of currency is one of its key features. But since ancient people lacked precise forms of measurement, archaeologists had disagreed about whether bronze items discovered in hoards in modern-day Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and other places were real currency or just metal blocks for melting into other products.
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