Rare 4,000-year-old copper dagger unearthed at ‘promising’ Italian cave. ... There was also an obsidian artefact, made of volcanic glass likely imported from southern Italy or central Europe.

A rchaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old copper dagger and fragments of human skulls deep in a cave in Italy. The cave was clearly used for burials, but it also holds the remains of an ...

Italian and Egyptian researchers used a method called "X-ray fluorescence spectrometry" to confirm that the dagger’s unrusted iron blade was made from a meteorite, according to a study recently ...

A 4,000-year-old dagger unearthed at a “promising” Italian cave could reveal how social changes shaped Copper Age Europe, archaeologists say. Excavations at the Tina Jama cave in northeastern ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old copper dagger and fragments of human skulls deep in a cave in Italy. The cave was clearly used for burials, but it also holds the remains of an ...

A 4,000-year-old dagger unearthed at a “promising” Italian cave could reveal how social changes shaped Copper Age Europe, archaeologists say.. Excavations at the Tina Jama cave in northeastern Italy ...

Archaeologists say the finds will help them better understand the prehistoric people who lived or buried their dead in this Italian cave. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...