Similar in weight and appearance, these Bronze Age ribs, or curved rods, may have been used as an early form of money. M.H.G. Kuijpers under CC-BY 4.0 Some 3,500 years before diamond rings emerged ...

Bronze age 'ring money' is a bit of a mystery. Many people believe it is proto currency (hence the name) and that people would have exchanged these for goods. Perhaps they were merely ornaments ...

In modern money, denominations of coins and paper currency are mass-manufactured so as to be near-identical. By comparison, the Bronze Age rings, ribs and axes reviewed for the study were less ...

From British pounds to Croatian kuna, a range of different currencies are used across Europe today. Now, researchers have shed light on what the first common currency in Europe might have been.

Archaeologists curious about this ancient query have struggled to pinpoint the exact moment of ... ax blades, rings, and ribs, from more than 100 different hoards in Bronze Age Europe — ranging ...

The gold-plated ring, which was worn on either the nose or the ears, dates back to the Bronze Age A gold-plated Bronze ... classed as a "hair-ring" or "ring-money" but experts believe it was ...

A man who found a Bronze Age axe and four gold rings in Suffolk ... was based on an invalid comparison with the more common 'ring money' or 'penannular rings' and he was backed by the Suffolk ...

Bronze Age Europeans earned and spent money in much the same way as we do today, indicating that the origins of the “market economy” are far more ancient than expected. That is the ...

Strange ring-shaped objects in a Bronze Age hillfort site represent a unique form of cereal-based product, according to a new study. Strange ring-shaped objects in a Bronze Age hillfort site ...

The largest analysis of ancient DNA to date has revealed a mass migration of people from what is now France into England and Wales during the late Bronze Age, which may have spread Celtic ...