#pyrotechnology — Public Fediverse posts
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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. #Archaeology #IronAge #Pyrotechnology #Zagros https://www.anthropology.net/p/fire-clay-and-the-quiet-discipline
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🌿🗿 12,000-year-old masterpiece! Tiny clay figurine of a woman & goose from Israel reveals early humans mastered pyrotechnology (firing clay at 400°C) & symbolic art—thousands 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/
#GoodNews #AncientArt #Pyrotechnology #HumanOrigins #ArchaeologyWin
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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:
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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