The Old World is a reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.
Fire and water are all that is needed to unlock the internal clocks' of archaeological remains and accurately reveal their age, say scientists. The research, published online today in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, will help archaeologists date remains that are thousands of years old, and also reveal where other techniques go wrong.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
I was notified of this yesterday and the implications for accurately dating the Aegean Bronze Age are profound.
I recently finished a paper titled "The Bronze Age Eruption of Santorini and Late Minoan IB Destruction Event" where I cited the limitations of using ceramics as anything other than a relative indicator of absolute chronology.
Nice write up, Samra. This technique, if it proves out, does look to make "stratigraphy" about as obsolete as alchemy.
I wonder if it would work on Jomon pottery?
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
We have discussed this at another site.
The big problem is that high heat “resets the clock” by driving out the absorbed moisture.
In England known medieval bricks have been tested as 60 years old.
That is the date of a WWII fire bombing.
So anything that gets real hot would throw this technique out.
The shroud of Turin nuts claim that heat interferes with C14 dating, too.
I suppose the question on this technique is: How much heat?
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
If I recall, pottery requires a minimum temperature of 1300F to fire.
212 is easily surpassed by any camp fire/brush fire. 1300f is a tad harder to attain naturally. So the question comes down is it the pottery or the water which has to be heated.
It will be interesting to see what their tests reveal.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
True.
I was thinking of water absorbed after fireing.
But the fireing should not allow that.
So we have to think about water sealed in by the fireing.
I will see if I can find the post about the English bricks.
I would guess that a WWII firestorm would exceed 1300 F though.
