Anthropologists and other scientists have used ultra-modern chemical analysis technology to analyze ancient Mayan pottery for proof ... and water can destroy the surface of materials, erasing ...

After a vessel dried to the point where it is no longer cold to the touch, it was placed in a pottery kiln and fired. The ancient Greeks used a three ... plants or minerals and did not adhere to the ...

Hurley and crew discovered five prehistoric sites on the ... creating a depression on the exterior surface of the unfired pot as a decorative treatment. Punctations come in many shapes, including ...

The new technique, developed by researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, overcomes previous challenges associated with dating pottery from the prehistoric era ... which opens up the surface where ...

Traces of beeswax found on ancient pottery from Europe, the Near East and North Africa suggest the first farmers kept bees. The research, published in Nature, external, shows our links with the ...

BANGKOK: A local official, villagers and a Fine Arts Department volunteer stumbled on human bones and ancient ... pottery fragments with rope pattern, grafted red or with a black polished surface ...