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Stunning jewellery from Poland.

16th kwiecień 2009

In the 1960s, organic chemist Curt Beck began using infrared spectroscopy to successfully identify Baltic amber, and because it only requires a sample size of about two milligrams, Beck’s method is a much less ruinous solution. Baltic amber is not necessarily preferable to any other kind of amber–in fact, Beck comments that it is visually indistinguishable from the local varieties found elsewhere.

  • Amber is a fossilized resin from coniferous (pine) trees that has been collected by people living along the shores of the Baltic Sea since the Bronze Age. During this time period Gdansk was the center of European amber craftsmanship.
  • Amber working became a means of living for the majority of the inhabitants of the region. By the first century AD, Roman demand for amber was so great that it drove the creation of “Amber Routes” from the Mediterranean to various points along the Baltic coast. One depositional environment for amber is marginal marine.Trees and resin may be transported and deposited in quiet water sediments that formed the bottom of a lagoon or delta at the margin of a sea. Wood and resin are buried under the sediment and while the resin becomes amber, the wood becomes lignite.
    The geological reason for the concentration of amber jewelry in this region has been described by a number of authorities N.O. Holst, the Swedish State Geologist referred to an ancient river called the ‘Alnarps’ which he wanted to call the ‘Amber River’.
    The route of these ancient rivers is detailed in the following map.

    However, as recently as 1985 Poinar and Haverkamp completed research involving infrared spectroscopy and drawing on earlier thin-layer chromatographic studies by Kucharska and Kwiatkowski cast some doubt on this long held view. An This conviction has been recently confirmed by Albert Bogdasarov, a Byelorussian mineralogist who recommends the wearing of amber necklaces, especially by children, in areas of intense radiation caused by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. of this sort was one of the most important ways that people of the early Bronze Age could display their power and influence.Grimaldi in his latest book ‘Amber - Window to the Past’ refers to current research (not specified) which may at last resolve this mystery. Shoved around northern Europe by glaciers and river channels, lumps of genuine Baltic amber jewellery can still be found today on the eastern coasts of England and Holland, throughout Poland, Scandinavia and northern Germany and much of western Russia and the Baltic states.
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