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 MachlingNov 25, 2022

@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!)

Show threadCarolineCherry
@tess_machling @CiutatAliena Really interesting . In my imagination I always think of skilled crafts being rooted in one place .
Nov 25, 2022 at 10:31amWeb