Chalcolithic

Beeswax an Addition to the Production of European Stone Age Adhesives

Author(s)
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

Author(s)
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

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.

More Testing of Mesoamerican Lunate Artifacts as Possible Loom Weights, that also Functioned as Twining Tools

Author(s)
Billie J. A. Follensbee 1 ✉
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In previous replication studies and experiments, a lunate jade artifact from the Pre-Classic/Formative period (1500 BC-AD 250) of Mesoamerica was analysed, researched, and tested for its similarities to the crescent weight, a specialized type of loom weight found in ancient Central and Southern Europe. These analyses successfully established that...

The Textile Dimension - Textile Finds in Archaeology

The Textile Dimension - Textile Finds in Archeology
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Organised by
Department of Christian Archeology - University of Bonn

Country

  • Germany

A conference on early archaeological textiles, starting from the Neolithic and running until the Early Middle Ages, organized by Department of Christian Archeology at the University of Bonn.

You can find the program in PDF format here(link is external).

Anniversary:10 years UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps

Anniversary:10 years UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps
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Country

  • Switzerland

For the anniversary «10 years UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps» we are going to the lake together with the Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology. At the Zuger Landsgemeindeplatz we provide information about the world heritage and the pile dwelling.