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Europeans Used Rings, Bangles, Axe Blades As Currency During Bronze Age, Claim Researchers
Europeans use 25 discreet currencies today, scientists have now shed light on the sole currency used by the people in Europe during the Bronze Age.
Europeans use 25 discreet currencies today, scientists have now shed light on the sole currency used by the people in Europe during the Bronze Age. In the research published in journal PLOS One, archaeologists have suggested that people residing as early as 5000 years used bronze objects such as rings, bangles and even axe blades to buy goods. In addendum, they also hinted at the possibility of European standardising their shapes and weight of these “bronze currency” to make the trade easy.
Now, researchers have shed light on what the first common currency in Europe might have been.
Their findings suggest that people used bronze objects such as rings, bangles and even axe blades as an early form of cash 5,000 years ago.
Early Bronze Age Europeans even went so far as to standardise the shape and weight of these objects for currency, say scientists.
Their findings suggest that people used bronze objects such as rings, ribs (pictured) and even axe blades as an early form of cash 5,000 years ago
HOW DO THEY KNOW THE ARTEFACTS WERE USED AS CURRENCY?
The team compared the objects weights using a principle known as the Weber fraction, which suggests that, if objects are similar enough in mass, a human weighing them by hand can t tell the difference.