January
23
/ 2020
Sometime about 5,700-years-ago a Neolithic hunter in what is now Denmark carefully crafted a finger ring, but the nature of the material used had baffled archaeologists. Broken in two and apparently dropped and left where it fell, after almost 6 millennia buried beneath dirt and under the sea, researchers have used a new scientific method to reconstruct much of the ring’s history, including identifying the animal from which the raw material had come. An Absolutely Phenomenal Site Syltholm, is Denmark’s largest Neolithic site which recently came under the spotlight after scientists reported discovering a Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic chewed piece of birch pitch ( ancient chewing gum) on the island of Lolland in southern Denmark. In this earlier study, published in
