EARLY BRONZE AGE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11452, 28 February 1931, Page 9

EARLY BRONZE AGE

RELICS UNCOVERED

Objects belonging to a period or culture more than 5000 years old hai o been unearthed by the central European expedition of th e University of Pennsylvania Museum, Cambridge. Announcement- of the discoveries was contained in a report from Dr. Yaldimer J. Fewkes, a field director of the expedition, made public here to-night. The objects included pottery vessels, bronze earrings, bracelets, arrowheads and knives, lliey revealed, Dr. Fewkes stated,, a settlement of people ’ belonging to the earliest bronze age. .. . ... ~. „ “The second summer's work, of the expedition’? Dr;, Fqwhes-. report said, “has produced at Horoviee,, southwest of Prague iii Czechoslovak! , objects that' point .to Slavic bunals of the late bronze and early, iron age.

“.fii addition to this wo. have carried oil extetisive'digging at Homolka northwest, of Prague,‘where the finds reveal a settlement' of people belonging to the' so-called-Nordic rphase of th» neolithic of earliest- bronze age period. 50G0 ‘.years ag0...... v ‘ ‘ln addition ’to the ! neolithic objects types of very primitive pottery; hove conie 'to dight which • indicate that the site .was. possibly, occupied over a long period or/ perhaps that in this region a number., of different cultures .met' and later mdrged ,intQ v one.* ' * , ’ ' . • >--—-v- - “The .whole central Earepcan‘region is archaeologieally. very' unportant' and as. yet .little understood. When the finds of tlie have been studied .and the published ho Tittle light" will ‘bo thrown on tliQ prehistory.of .man ia.Rtrop*?; ■ ■ ~.* = - • -