Bronzo di stagno, Vinca, del 4500 a.C..

6,500-year old tin bronze from Serbia

Antiquity Volume: 87 Number: 338 Page: 1030–1045

Tainted ores and the rise of tin bronzes in Eurasia, c. 6500 years ago 

Miljana Radivojević et al.

The earliest tin bronze artefacts in Eurasia are generally believed to have appeared in the Near East 

in the early third millennium BC. Here we present tin bronze artefacts that occur far from the Near East, 

and in a significantly earlier period. Excavations at Pločnik, a Vinča culture site in Serbia, recovered 

a piece of tin bronze foil from an occupation layer dated to the mid fifth millennium BC. 

The discovery prompted a reassessment of 14 insufficiently contextualised early tin bronze artefacts

 from the Balkans. They too were found to derive from the smelting of copper-tin ores. These tin bronzes 

extend the record of bronze making by c. 1500 years, and challenge the conventional narrative of 

Eurasian metallurgical development.

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Carro, 4.000 anni fa, Serbia.

E' stato scoperto - quasi per caso, presso il villaggio di Staniecenije, Serbia - un carro 

meravigliosamente decorato con orpelli di bronzo, certamente elitario, di circa 3.000 - 4000 anni

 fa. Si trattava di un carro  trainato da due cavalli, che probabilmente apparteneva ad un Tracio.

Questa deduzione è stata fatta  dall'archeologo Zoran Mitic a partire da un tumulo reperito nelle

vicinanze, troppo monumentale per essere di una persona qualunque: probabilmente era 

dedicato a persona piuttosto in alto nella gerarchia sociale Tracia.

4,000-year-old chariot discovered in Serbia

During the protective archaeological works, carried out in parallel with the construction of Corridor 10, archaeologist Zoran Mitic found the remains of beautifully decorated chariot, assumed to be aged between 3,000 and 4,000 years and to have belonged to a Thracian from the elite of the time.

Archaeologist Zoran Mitic with the remains of Thracian chariot [Credit: Kurir/Tanjug]

According to Mitic, this an unique and extremely important item, which he found near the village of Stanicenje.

“This is a chariot, drawn by two horses. My assumption is that the chariot belonged to a Thracian citizen,” Mitic told Tanjug.

He said that this is backed by the fact that, at the location where the chariot was found, was also found a tumulus – a tomb.

“Judging by the manner of burial, I guess that it was a member of Thracian people, not ordinary, but someone who occupied an important place in the hierarchy, due to the fact that the chariot is decorated with beautiful bronze applications,” he said.

Source: InSerbia [December 06, 2013]