In 1912, a treasure was found near the village of Borodino, Akkerman district of the Bessarabian province. It dates back to the beginning of the second half of the 2nd millennium BC. e. Contains items of weaponry: 6 stone polished jade battle axes, 2 silver and bronze spearheads and one spear bushing, a bronze dagger with a gold plate, a massive silver pin, 3 mace heads made of soapstone. It is these stone axes that I propose to focus on.
The objects found belong to different cultures: for example, spears are more typical for the Volga Turbinsky burial ground, maces are more inherent in the North Caucasus, a pin and a dagger are more typical of the Aegean civilization, jade of generally unknown origin. A version suggests itself: these items were in the possession of one person, most likely as a result of military campaigns.
Similar items were found in the Danube basin - in Hungary and the Czech Republic. The forms of the spears are typical for the Eastern Transcaucasia, they are found in the excavations of the North Caucasus, as well as in the steppe regions of Central Russia, which indicates the undoubted ties of the tribes.
The heaviest spear is 34.1 cm long and weighs 519.1 g, made of high-grade 916 silver. Another smaller spear weighs 280.8 g and is made of low-grade 400-carat silver - an alloy of silver and copper. Spectral analysis of the spear metal identified the source of the metal: Nikolskoye silver deposit and the Urals.
Pay attention to the quality of processing (polishing) and symmetry (alignment) of the jade axes. This is at the level of the ancient Egyptian black basalt products.
The hardness of jade is not very high compared to a number of many stones (5.5-6 on the hardness scale). Quartz scratches jade without difficulty, and a diamond saw cuts it as easily as if there were soft wood underneath. However, a diamond can be shattered with a light hammer, while a piece of jade can withstand the strongest blows from a heavy hammer, leaving only small white dents on it. Often, an inexperienced mineralogist would smash a steel hammer in an attempt to break the sample from a large block of jade.)
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Those. ancient hunters and pastoralists still continue to use primitive stone tools, they are just beginning to exercise with copper alloys and immediately learned how to perform such highly technological hatchets. But that's not all. Most of all, I was surprised by the almost 100% similarity with those stone axes that Schliemann dug up in his Troy. Schliemann called these axes the most valuable of the Trojan hoard. Scientists are wrestling with the questions of who worked the stone so perfectly.
A hammer-ax from Priam's hoard, found by Schliemann during excavations of the Greek city of Troy. Moscow. Museum of Fine Arts. A. S. Pushkin
The official version: these items from the Borodino hoard were in the possession of one person, most likely as a result of military campaigns. Yes, this is possible. But the conclusion suggests itself that the entire space was a single cultural ethnos, with the same cultural characteristics and technologies for processing and obtaining something. After all, there are sayings that Troy is a Slavic city (in the books of Demin, for example).
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