Overview of Varna, its stratification, and its demise.

[Yetos]

@ Yetos


Do you think that advanced 'gold' metallurgy (combination of gold/copper) originated within the Varna culture? If not, where do you think it is from?

well you find me unprepaired,
but truth is that depends of gold digits,
usually gold from rivers, antigue gold, has not much copper, it is more pure or has tin
Varna gold although has small percentages of other metals,
Hardmanns work give Ag Cu Pt Ni and in some also Zn and very high purity
Ivanov gives purity 23,5 carats with 0,3 silver and 0,2 copper
the most strange thing is that the hardest items contain Platinum
there many categories nd types, as concern varna gold,
mainly are the pure, the hardened, and the imported,
one mine that surely trade varna is Ai Bunar, Transylvania and Romania is also possible

the gold that contains tin is probably from Alluvian soils of caucasus, perhaps Georgia Phases river,

according the artifact they want to produce they used simmilar quality of gold,
it seems likes they had either many kind of laboratories, or they use different levels of smelting

from what I found today except Hardmann which happened to read some of his work few years before
also Muhlay Ivanov Kostov Jovanovic Zanotti etc write about
Jovanovic speaks about the first mechanical separation of inpurities known.

even today at romania they mine gold.

the bellow I did not read it, it is from 2014,

http://www.academia.edu/10264506/Ch...rovenance_circulation_processing_and_function