They discover a 4,000-year-old dagger that can reveal Bronze Age secrets

The Polish Ministry of Culture confirmed the discovery of a dagger more than 4,000 years old in the Jaroslaw Forest. This discovery is important because it can show changes from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, and according to its researchers, it is the oldest object ever found in the region.

The discovery of the dagger dates back to the end of 2023, when the Jaroslaw Society for History and Exploration assembled a team of scientists to conduct research using a metal detector in a forest area of ​​the region, near a town called Korzynica, in southern Poland.

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One of the investigators, Piotr Gorlach, said that as he was retreating to his car to finish the inspection, his metal detector received a signal that led him to a flat metal object covered in a green substance. “That's how I knew this was something much older than the military elements from World Wars I and II that we were tracking in the area,” Gorlach said. It's a statement.

The next day, Görlich went to an expert at the Jaroslaw Museum, Marcin Burghardt, who analyzed the dagger and confirmed that its origin could be traced back to the second half of the third millennium BC, a period of great changes related to the ancient era. The use of raw materials to make tools used for hunting, agriculture and even defense among tribes.

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Moreover, as Burghart puts it, the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age can be clearly confirmed by the fact that the dagger is made of metal, especially copper. Another expert from the same museum, Elbieta Sieradzka-Borghardt, said that this was particularly special, as only people from the highest society could purchase these copper items. “There is no doubt that the dagger is not just a local product,” Burghardt Sieradzka said.

At the moment, the data collected allow us to prove that the dagger was made in the Carpathian Basin – located in several regions of Central Europe – or in the forest-steppe of Ukraine. However, its origin remains a mystery, which is why the researchers pointed out the importance of continuing their study.

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