A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1982/83-1. (Szeged, 1985)

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in the former this development began some millennia later. According to the C

14-based chronology (high chronology) in Middle Europe copper finds make their first appearance around 4000 B.C.,

78 and a little later in Northern Europe, around the middle of the 4th millennium.

79 Finally, we would like to give a brief survey of the earliest copper finds of the neighbouring countries, primarily the Carpathian Basin. Several copper artifacts and objects are known from Romania dating to the Körös—Starcevo period: a copper awl from Balomir, the fragment of a native copper from Radnot (Iernut) and another copper awl from Cuina Turcului.

80 The copper finds from a Karanovo II deposit found at Ovcarovo (Bulgaria)

81 Fig. 13. The Spondylus pendant from grave 136 78 Tringham, R., Hunters, Fishers and Farmers of Eastern Europe: 6000—3000 В. C. London (1971) 195. 79 Ottaway, В., Earliest Copper Ornaments in Northern Europe. PPS 39 (1973) 294—331. 80 Vlassa, N., Einige Bemerkungen zu Fragen des Neolithikums in Siebenbürgen. St. Z. (1969) 513—540. . . 81 Jovanovic, B.

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Ottaway, B. S., Copper Mining and Metallurgy of the Vine Group. Antiquity 50 (1976) 104—113. Ovcarovo is mentioned on p. 109. 32