Iron Age potters at Dinka fired low, slow, and together. New research reconstructs an entire production system, showing conservative technology, shared knowledge, and underestimated urban organization in the Zagros.
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Fire, Clay, and the Quiet Discipline of Craft at an Iron Age City in the Zagros
How archaeologists reconstructed a complete pottery production system at Dinka, revealing conservative technologies, shared knowledge & a form of urban organization long underestimated in the Iron Age
πΏπΏ 12,000-year-old masterpiece! Tiny clay figurine of a woman & goose from Israel reveals early humans mastered pyrotechnology (firing clay at 400Β°C) & symbolic artβthousands of years before settled societies. Seeds of myth & creativity blooming! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/12000-year-old-figurine-shows-humans-used-pyrotechnology-thousands-of-years-before-the-first-societies/
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12,000-Year-Old Figurine Shows Humans Used "Pyrotechnology" Thousands of Years Before the First Societies
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.
Yet we already were able to track back such attempts of controlled early (even earlier) #pyrotechnology with the production of #LimePlaster in the Pre-Pottery #Neolithic near East:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/530304
Even more: Already in their seminal works on #Neolithic #lime and #gypsum plasters, Kingery et al. (quite fittingly) described this technology as "The Beginnings of #Pyrotechnology" (J. Field Arch. 2(1/2), 1975 + J. Field Arch. 15, 1988):
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/43032/mci17198.pdf
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