Finding gold in Boeslunde, Denmark, is no huge surprise—it’s known as an area where Bronze Age gold offering are often uncovered, as curators there are explaining this month. But a recent discovery has surprised and baffled archaeologists: 2,000 tiny gold spirals. It’s a “golden enigma.”
http://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-baffled-by-2-000-tiny-gold-spirals-disco-1717507894
what exactly did they find? Thousands of tightly-wound gold wires, each about one inch long, that together made up more than half a pound of solid gold, which seems to have been buried in a wooden box lined with fur which has long since disintegrated. Fascinatingly, no one’s quite sure how these tiny wires were actually used
in this case... i would guess that they wrapped their braids in them...
their theories are often quite hoaky..
my favorite "wrong" theory was when they found a cave deep in the white cliffs, and that the cave wall was soft enough that one could scrape ones fingers and make patterns. so way way back in this cave, the archeologist claims there is some religious significance (the garbage dump of all unknowns), and that these designs were carved into the cave... but anyone who has ever gone deep into a cave would recognize what would happen if someone freaked out, knocked out their light, then went nuts trying to dig themselves out of the place... they would make marks like that, just as persons buried alive do..
they do not think much in a large context, but in small narrow channels
so they miss a lot of stuff that is pretty easy to see, and in this case, they tie it to religion
the worship of the sun and some kind of adornment...
i would say its like thousands of other burial stuff found...
its the hair decoration of a wealthy woman who when attack was eminant, buried the goods for later retrieval
whoever knew that was there, probably didnt come back..
