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An Ancient Iron Furnace in Uzbekistan Is Opening a Window on Central Asian Metalworking — Curiosmos
2+ week, 4+ day ago (484+ words) An excavation in Uzbekistan is bringing archaeologists, materials scientists and environmental researchers together around a single ancient furnace. At Abu Muslim Qala, in the historic Khorezm region, a Purdue-led project has uncovered the remains of a settlement and a large…...
How Archaeologists Reconstruct the Making of Ancient Iron — Curiosmos
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (667+ words) An ancient iron object can look simple: a blade, nail, tool or fragment of a chain. Making it required a long chain of decisions, from finding ore and fuel to building a furnace and working the metal after it cooled....
How Do Archaeologists Tell Whether an Ancient Building Was a Home, Shrine, or Workshop? — Curiosmos
1+ week, 2+ day ago (673+ words) An ancient building does not come with a label on the door. When archaeologists uncover walls, they have to work out what people did inside them from the traces left behind. A hearth may suggest cooking, but it can also…...
Scientists Read 4,000-Year-Old Letters Without Opening Their Clay Envelopes — Curiosmos
4+ week, 9+ hour ago (811+ words) Researchers are using high-definition X-ray CT and virtual unwrapping to read cuneiform letters that remain sealed inside their ancient clay envelopes. For thousands of years, some letters from Mesopotamia have remained exactly where their writers left them: inside small clay…...
How Archaeologists Read and Date Ancient Inscriptions
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (572+ words) Epigraphy—the study of inscriptions—connects the writing with the object and the place where it was found. A useful way to understand the process is to follow three different clues: the marks themselves, the language, and the evidence for…...
How Do Archaeologists Date Pottery? Methods Explained
2+ week, 5+ day ago (681+ words) How do archaeologists date pottery? Usually, they do not look at a single shard and read a year from it. A ceramic fragment becomes useful when its shape, clay, decoration, manufacturing technique and archaeological position are compared with other dated…...
Devil’s Arrows: 25-Tonne Stones Hauled 11 Miles
5+ day, 25+ min ago (448+ words) Prehistoric builders moved the enormous stones of the Devil’s Arrows at least 18 kilometres across Yorkshire, according to new research that identifies where the blocks came from. The finding connects Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row with Brimham Rocks, rather than…...
Why Archaeologists Leave Some Discoveries Unexcavated — Curiosmos
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (551+ words) Finding an ancient structure does not always mean that archaeologists should uncover all of it immediately. In some cases, the most responsible decision is to leave part of a site in the ground. Soil can protect fragile walls, organic material…...
What Is a Megalith? Why Ancient People Built Stone Monuments
1+ week, 6+ day ago (764+ words) exist together. Large stones are heavy, but the engineering problem is only part of the story. Builders...
Why Where an Ancient Object Is Found Matters More Than the Object Itself — Curiosmos
1+ week, 4+ day ago (500+ words) When people imagine archaeology, they often picture a spectacular object being lifted from the ground: a gold ornament, a carved stone or a decorated pot. For archaeologists, the object is only part of the evidence. The soil around it, the…...