Archaeologists have unearthed a rare dagger dating back to the Copper Age at Tina Jama Cave in the regional decentralization entity of Trieste in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
The ancient copper dagger from Tina Jama Cave is just under 10 cm (4 inches) long and has a leaf shape with a tang.
The artifact was found by Professor Federico Bernardini, excavation director and an archaeologist from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and his colleagues from Italy and Slovenia.
“Such finds do not have exact parallels in Italy, but the Tina Jama dagger can be compared with similar finds from the famous Dežman/Deschmann pile dwellings near Ljubljana in Slovenia,” Professor Bernardini said.
The copper age was relatively short, as it didn’t take long for ancient smiths to realize that adding some tin to copper makes bronze, which is much stronger.
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