Chalcolithic

Beeswax an Addition to the Production of European Stone Age Adhesives

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Aleksandra Cetwińska 1 ✉,
Maciej Sadło 1
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Beeswax is a frequently mentioned binder additive in the literature. Unfortunately, it is not so durable as to be well preserved in archaeological records, although there are faint exceptions. Because of its strengthening capabilities, which is believed to be its role, this research set out to carry out an experiment to verify the effects of adding it to the adhesives potentially used in the European Stone Age...

Shedding New Light on the Pure Copper Metallurgy of the Chalcolithic Southern Levant Through an Archaeological Experiment

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Thomas Rose 1,2 ✉,
Peter Fabian 1,
Yuval Goren 1
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Two metallurgical traditions coexisted in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant: the lost wax casting of polymetallic alloys and the pure copper technology. Details of their operational sequences are still unknown. To date, no production sites of lost wax casting technology have been found. Only the main steps of the pure copper technology can be reconstructed from the archaeological record...

Playing with Fire

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Germany

Easily flammable material, oxygen and heat - these are the basic requirements for starting a fire. From  1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Patrick Geiger will  present how and with what flames have been and were kindled from the Stone Age to the present day.