Baltic amber beads found in Syria’s 3000 -year -old UR –

A study of beads excavated in the Hama region of Syrian 90 years ago determined them as amber colors of the Baltic Sea, which means that they from the coast of the Baltic Sea in Denmark and Poland to the Baltic coast from the Baltic Sea 3,000 years ago to the Auret. The river bank of the River traveled nearly 1,900 miles. This is the first direct evidence of the Baltic amber on the ancient Hama site.

Hama’s ancient sites are Daqiu in the central Hama city of Western Syria. It has been continuously occupied from the late Neolithic period to the Ottoman period (6500 BC). It discovered the remains from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age to the Iron Age.

Danish archeologists led by HaraAld Ingholt excavated the HAMA site from 1931 to 1938. South of the pier, they excavated the crematorium grave of 1682 from the iron age. It has been using 1100 BC until the city was raised in 720 BC by the city’s King of Sargon II. The relics are sealed, 10 goats/sheep bones and 51 beads. It is one of the oldest places in the cemetery. 1075-925 BC

The cultural relics recovered from the Hama excavation have been recorded and divided between the Danish team. The Danish team obtained the excavation capital of the Carlsberg Foundation and the funds of the local museum. This is a system called partage. The system was very common in the end of the 19th and early 20th century. Since then, the HAMA series went to the Danish National Museum and conducted research there to show and save.

In the 1930s, the museum surveyed the beads of Cinerary URN. The researchers designed a reconstruction that arranged 51 beads and cylinders in the necklace, but 17 beads were unlimited because they were too degraded and fragmented. Although dull and cloudy, the glowing orange did show the similarities to amber through some broken beads, but this problem was not raised at the time.

A group of new researchers took over the remaining in the 1930s, using the technology of Fourier’s transformation of infrared spectrum (FT-IR) and Qi-Qi-Synthine quality spectrum (GC-MS) technology to confirm that beads are indeed amber of the Baltic Sea.

During the cremating burial of the Iron Age of Hama in western Syria, the identification of the Baltic amber beads provided evidence of long -distance trade between the northern east and the coast of the Nordic Policyum. This is known to the amber network of Europe and the Mediterranean, and expanded what you already know, and emphasized the role of HAMA as an important hub in regional and regional trade networks, at least at least in the early days of the bronze age. Amber discovered another position of a map of the amber event near the East Baltic Sea in Hama, and emphasized the social and economic value of this restriction and highly sought after material, from “distant foreign”.

This research has been published in magazines Ancient And you can read it here.