Large Pictures III
	Danube Culture
	Here is a large version of the map showing the area of the Danube culture. The symbols denote places where something has been found; numbers refer to the exact locations. Only some of the specific cultures going with the symbols have been indicated. For all the details see the book of Harald Haarmann
	Link to text	Source: A somewhat modified version of the map given in the frontispiece of Harald Haarmann's book

	This is a large-scale picture of the famous Cernavodã "thinker" with his wife or admirer (?)
	Link to text	Source: This article

	The bnext few pictures I took while doing a Danube cruise on May 2025 The first one is just a large version of the figurine from Karanovaone as shown in the backbone
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	This one we find in the (very good) Belgrad museum The 7,500-year-old "Red-haired Goddess", as of today part of the permanent exhibition in the National Museum in Belgrade. It was found 35 years ago near Odžaci, Serbia. She is associated with the Starcevo culture;
	Here is a nother version: photographed in the Novi Sad museum. Probably the original but the museums are vague about that.
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	The beauty below is shewn in the Belgrade museum but originated from Lepenski Vir that we visited, too The Lepenski Vir Collection in Belgrade contains items from the site of Lepenski Vir, covering the chronological span from the 10th till the 6th millennium B.C., that is the Mesolithic (Lepenski Vir 1 and 2) and Neolithic Period (Lepenski Vir 3). Here we see a typical "Fish Head" God sculpture
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	The guys below shown in the Belgrade muss are from the Vinca culture, as even an amateur can tell by now.
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	The beauties below are found in the museum in Rousse, Bulgaria. It has more good stuff but the description tends to be in Cyrillic
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	Finally,a double-headed figure from Gomolava-Hrtkovci, Serbia. Vinca-Plocnik Culture, Late Mesolithic (5th mill. BC) Archaeologists still debate what it means Dound in the (very good) museum in Novi Sad, Serbia
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	This picure shows a set of twelve "red clay" figurines of the Cucuteni culture from around 4200–4050 BC
	Link to text	Source: This article

	This set of twenty-one figurines and thirteen chairs is als from the Cucuteni Culture, about 4900–4750 BC ("Pre-Cucuteni II"). The figurines were found inside a pottery vessel.
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	Below is a picture of the "temple" unearthed in 2014 at a Trypillian site. I'm not exactly sure what one sees but it is definitely big.
	Link to text	Source: Sci-News.com, Oct 22, 2014

	Here is a geomagnetic survey of Maidanetske, showing what one can do with modern methods.
	Link to text	Source: K.NuT RAssMANN, .ALEKSEY KoRVIN- PIOTROVSKTY, MYKHAILO V IDEIKO AND ]oHANNES MuLLER: "The New Challenge for Site Plans and Geophysics: Revealing the Settlement Structure of Giant Settlements by Means of Geomagnetic Survey"; in: Müller, J., Rassmann, K., Videiko, M. (Eds.), Trypillia Mega-sites and European Prehistory: 4100-3400 BCE, Routledge, London, pp.29 -54

	Cyprus Museum
	Ain't those things below rather amusing?
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Cyprus Museum in Oct. 2016

	The "Kopffüßer" (cephalopod) below got my attention because I'm going to be turned int one soon. A few days after we are back from Cyprus, a world-renowned surgeon will take out a part off my fibula (that smaller bone in your lower leg) and stuff it into my mouth. Does not sound like a lot of fun (and isn't; trust me, I went through the experience by now) but goes a long way in reconstructign an upper jaw bone that was lost to begnin but recurring tumors. Soon I might have teeth again!
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Cyprus Museum in Oct. 2016

	Uluburun Shipwreck
	Here is a picture of what the divers saw. I suspect though that the cargo wasn't that "clean" but covered wth sand and debris.
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Bodrum Museum in May 2017

	A lomgitudinal section through the ship, showing how the cargo was stored. This is an artists conception but based on the way the stuff was found on the sea floor.
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Bodrum Museum in May 2017

	Here are some ingots:
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Bodrum Museum in May 2017

	One of the show cases. The weapoms and the pottery are are obvious but what is No. 9? Turns out it is a ceremonial scepter-mace of volcanic stone.
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Bodrum Museum in May 2017

	A show case with some of the precious stuff:
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Bodrum Museum in May 2017

	A close-up fo the hilt construction of two bronze daggers. Several pieces of wood (?), ivory (?) metal etc, have been fitted to the bronze-enclosed "hollow"; possibly glued in by the "turpentine" resin mentioned in the main text.
	Link to text	Source: Photographed in the Bodrum Museum in May 2017

With frame

Danube Culture

Early Metal Technology - 2. Silver and Lead

Critical Museum Guide: Metropolitan Museum, NYC

Critical Museum Guide: Museums in Copenhagen

Critical Museum Guide: Museums in Istanbul, Turkey

Critical Museum Guide: Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany

Critical Museum Guide: Archaeological Museum in Heraklion (Crete)

Critical Museum Guide: Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus; Denmark

Critical Museum Guide: Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany

Cyprus Museum

Museums in Athens and Olympia

Israel Museum

Early Copper Sites

The Frankish Empire And Its Swords

Illerup Ådal

Early Pyrotechnolgy - Pottery

Early Pyrotechnolgy - 2. First Technical Uses

Göbekli Tepe

Early Metal Technology - 1. Gold

Smelting Science - 3. Smelter Technology

Yumuktepe

Rosh Horesha, Shanidar Cave

Nevali Çori

Some Additional Pictures; chapter 10.1

Uluburun Shipwreck

Sword Places

© H. Föll (Iron, Steel and Swords script)