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6,500 year old skeleton found in Bulgaria with some of the World's oldest Gold (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm mildly surprised by the lack of rings.

[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Coins are much easier to smith than rings. Dunno about the cock-top. I've never tried to forge a thimble.

While I suppose you could make a mold and smelt the gold, and I know that gold smelts at a low enough temp they probably could have done exactly that, I don't know enough of the history of ancient smithing to know when we actually started smelt pouring.

Edit: upon closer inspection, I'm fairly certain that copper/bronze spearhead was smithed not poured.