Latest posts tagged with #Pyrotechnology on Bluesky
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 www.anthropology.net/p/fire-clay-...
🌿🗿 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 […]
Pech-de-l’Azé I (~50 ka): Neanderthals powdered manganese dioxide—it lowers wood’s ignition temp and speeds char burn—likely for on-demand fire. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Neanderthals #Pyrotechnology
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/sre...
Very happy to have been to attend and share our experimental results at the #dig2025 conference in Tübingen! 🔥❄️ #geoarchaeology, #pyrotechnology, #paleolithic
@veraaldeias.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
Very excited to share our new paper on Fire Use during the LGM at Korman'9, Ukraine! Check it out!
#geoarchaeology, #micromorphology, #pyrotechnology, #LGM, #Paleolithic, #archaeology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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:
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):
repository.si.edu/bitstream/ha...
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,...
Some of the really impressing examples of the mastery of related #pyrotechnology for instance are the production and use of #lime and #gypsum #plaster in that period:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/529624?seq=1
https://www.jstor.org/stable/530304?seq=1
