Worlds Oldest Gold Artifact?

[Steve Herschbach]

"It may be just a tiny gold bead - 4 mm (1/8 inch) in diameter - but it is an enormous discovery for Bulgarian archaeologists who say they have found Europe's - and probably the world's - oldest gold artifact.

The bead, found at a pre-historic settlement in southern Bulgaria, dates back to 4,500-4,600 B.C., the archaeologists say, making it some 200 years older than jewelry from a Copper Age necropolis in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna, the oldest processed gold previously unearthed, in 1972."

Read full article at http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-archaeology-gold-idUSKCN10L0YQ

 

[Paulito]

If that was a tiny IRREGULAR nugget, or link from a miner's chain, that would be a COOL piece of gold. It's kinda crazy how mesmerizing and badass that tiny little ting is though, with the story behind it! :) What a pretty piece of gold!!!

[El Dorado]

wow, Goldsmiths have been around 6000+ years. That is amazing

 

[tvanwho]

didn't they still have mastodons back then? Hmm, I thought we were sposed to be in the stone age 6,000 years ago too, barely able to feed ourselves much less making gold jewelry out of pretty yellow rocks...something just doesn't add up with our history books..?

[Roughwater]

22 hours ago, tvanwho said:

.something just doesn't add up with our history books..?

Even cavemen back then knew what the ladies like!