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Bronze Age: European Farmers Used Rings, Ribs and Axe Blades as Money 4,000 Years Ago Published January 21st, 2021 - 10:25 GMT
Bronze ribs, pictured, as well as rings, axe blades and other objects, suggest people in Central Europe were using standardized currency at the end of the Early Bronze Age. Photo by M.H.G. Kuijpers
New research suggests groups of farmers living in Central Europe were exchanging standardized money in the form of bronze rings and ribs during the early Bronze Age, nearly 4,000 years ago.
According to the latest archaeological analysis, described Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, the use of standardized money in Central Europe may have developed independently from money systems that emerged in the Far East and Mediterranean.
Bronze Age central Europeans used rings, ribs, axe blade as type of currency
It is impossible to know how much each individual object might be worth in today s money and what they might have been used to buy.
Jan 22, 2021 09:30:58 IST
Central Europeans of the Bronze Age used bronze rings, ribs and axe blades that were roughly standardized in their shape and weight as an early form of euros, according to a new study. The paper by researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands appeared in the journal
PLOS ONE on Wednesday. Money is a defining aspect of modern life, and standardization of currency is one of its key features. But since ancient people lacked precise forms of measurement, archaeologists had disagreed about whether bronze items discovered in hoards in modern-day Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and other places were real currency or just metal blocks for melting into other products.
Archaeological discovery: First common currency in Europe
Standardized by shape and weight: 5,000 years ago, people used rings, bangles and axe blades as an early form of money.
How much does this sword cost?
Four bracelets, three clasps and an axe!
Everything standard?
Of course!
This is how a prehistoric bartering might have sounded before coins came into circulation in the Bronze Age in Europe. At that time, rings, rib bars, and axe blades of either bronze or copper were common currencies. And surprisingly, these objects were standardized in weight and shape in many parts of Europe, researchers at Leiden University have discovered.
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