Dr Tess MachlingNov 25, 2022

We don't often get to see individual people in prehistory, but these 3 #torcs were made or finished by same person, 2300 years ago!

Tiny punched tool marks look random, but this person has a very specific way of working & deco patterns that they use & we've now seen this on 3 torcs from very different places!

This means 3 torcs must have been made within 30-40 years of each other, within the lifetime of a single maker - a person that we now know by the way they decorated torcs.

#Archaeology

Show threadAndròmedaNov 25, 2022
@tess_machling How interesting! If the three torcs were founded in different places, do you think the crafter lived in his own place and his works were spreaded all around by different sellers or was he living in those different places during his life? (Sorry, hard for me to be fluent in English)
Show threadDr Tess Machling

@CiutatAliena we don't know... it could be a travelling workshop (gold doesn't need much kit), they could have been traded/ exchanged/gifted....

My feeling is that the top goldsmiths were working for multiple people... but that's difficult to prove.

(And your English is excellent!)

Nov 25, 2022 at 9:16amWeb
Show threadAndròmedaNov 25, 2022
@tess_machling My writer's mind would like to know his story 😊... It makes sense to think in a travelling workshop, or even in a so good craftsman that his pieces were wanted all along the country... Fascinating! And thank you, I feel like heaven here in Mastodon because I find kind and interesting peaple like you and I can practice my English too. Waiting for your new toots!
Show threadDr Tess MachlingNov 25, 2022

@CiutatAliena yes! I would love to know who they were, how they learnt, who from.

And I'm loving the chance to talk to people here - it's all very positive!!

Show threadAndròmedaNov 25, 2022
@tess_machling To share knowledge and learn from others makes all of us more open minded and better in our fields, isn't it? That's the good thing here!
Show threadDr Tess MachlingNov 25, 2022
@CiutatAliena yes, exactly that! Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Show threadAndròmedaNov 25, 2022
@tess_machling Thank you! Happy weekend to you too!
Show threadCarolineCherryNov 25, 2022
@tess_machling @CiutatAliena Really interesting . In my imagination I always think of skilled crafts being rooted in one place .