Rudna Glava () is a mining site in present-day eastern

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that demonstrates one of the earliest evidences of European copper mining and metallurgy, dating to the 5th millennium BC. Shafts were cut into the hillside, with scaffolding constructed for easy access to the veins of ore. It belongs to the

Vinča culture The Vinča culture (), also known as Turdaș culture or Turdaș–Vinča culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe, dated to the period 5700–4500 BC or 5300–4700/4500 BC.. Named for its type site, Vinča-Belo Brdo, ...

, as is shown by pottery-finds. In 1983, Rudna Glava was added to the

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list, protected by

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Sources and external links

* Borislav Jovanović, Rudna Glava, najstarije rudarstvo bakra na centralnom Balkanu. Bor, Muzej rudarstva i metallurgije/Beograd, Arheološki institut 1982. * J. P. Mallory and Martin E. Huld, "Metal", ''

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'', Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. * http://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikacija/casopisi/starinar/XLIX_*ns/d16/document
Archeology - Archaeometallurgy
* https://web.archive.org/web/20051004092150/http://www.greatorme.freeserve.co.uk/Literature%20Review.htm * http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab16

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