
Vol 1 Ep 18 - The origin of metallurgy
History of the World podcast
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Copper Mining in the Balkans
Copper all found at the burial site of a forty year old woman. She was wearing a belt containing over one and a half thousand ostrich egg shell beads. The copper all itself is likely to have been brought to tell saf either as copper or as an all, by nomadic traders. No natural activity of the earth alone is capable of ducing gold to form gold. Pressures totally alien to us had to have taken place. One theory of where the kind of pressures exist that can create gold is when a star goes supernove.
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