Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.
Digital archaeology increasingly harnesses computational techniques to advance our understanding of pottery from archaeological contexts. By integrating 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and advanced image ...
Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.
Ceramic pots endure the corrosive effects of thousands of years, and organic remains preserved inside its pores can shed light on the culture, values, diets, and daily life of societies. This research ...
The project, launched by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aims to trace the origin of thousands of ceramic vessels even when the kilns where they were fired have long vanished.
During excavations at the Hilla archaeological site in southern Bahrain, archaeologists uncovered a roughly 3,300-year-old ...
Thin section petrography, geochemistry, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction are key scientific methods used to investigate the raw materials, origins and production technology of ...
MONTREUIL-SUR-MER, FRANCE—A pottery workshop has been uncovered near the coast of northern France, according to a Miami Herald report. Researchers from the French National Institute of Preventive ...