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Ringheiligtum Pömmelte is a late Neolithic, Early Bronze Age henge monument from the late third millennium BC. The site was discovered in 1991 through aerial photography near the present-day village of Pömmelte in the district Salzlandkreis, in.
Two published reports by competing teams of scholars have reignited a long-standing debate.
January 20, 2021
The controversial Nebra Sky Disk and some of the Bronze Age artifacts with which it was found. Photo courtesy of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle, Germany.
It’s an enchanting object, made of copper and bronze, an ancient view of the cosmos but how ancient, exactly, is what’s fueling an increasingly contentious debate.
Is the Nebra Sky Disk an unprecedented Bronze Age treasure forged some 3,600 years ago? Or a less-remarkable Iron Age object made 1,000 years later?
In September, Rupert Gebhard, director of the Munich’s Bavarian State Archaeological Collection, and Rüdiger Krause, an early European history professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt, published a paper in the German journal Archäologische Informationen arguing that the artifact which features images of the sun, the moon, and the Pleiades star cluster is not the remarkable earliest-know