Rudna Glava
Village and mining site in Serbia
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Rudna Glava (lit. 'Ore Head') is a mining site in present-day eastern Serbia, a village and an archeological site.
The site, located northwest of the present-day village, on the left bank of the Šaška, demonstrates one of the earliest evidences of European copper mining and metallurgy, dating to the 5th millennium BC.[1] Shafts were cut into the hillside, with scaffolding constructed for easy access to the veins of ore. It belongs to the Vinča culture,[2] as is shown by pottery-finds. In 1983, Rudna Glava was added to the Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance list, protected by Republic of Serbia.[3]
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Sources and external links
- Borislav Jovanović, Rudna Glava, najstarije rudarstvo bakra na centralnom Balkanu. Bor, Muzej rudarstva i metallurgije/Beograd, Arheološki institut 1982.
- J. P. Mallory and Martin E. Huld, "Metal", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
- http://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikacija/casopisi/starinar/XLIX_*ns/d16/document%5B%5D
- Archeology - Archaeometallurgy
- History of Mining
- History of Metallurgy