Abstract When they work, controlled experiments can efficiently and clearly reveal essential characteristics of the functions performance ancient hunting fighting weapons. However, homogenous target media must be carefully validated to ensure that tests capture same variables made weapons effective in their original application. Although flesh simulants have proven for studying firearms, cannot...

This paper discusses the role of clay selection and preparation in production wheel-made pottery Early Iron Age southern Iberia. The first systematic use potter’s wheels ceramics Iberia corresponds to establishment workshops associated with Phoenician trade colonies, dating period between end 10th 7th century BCE. There are still many gaps our understanding how technological knowledge was trans...

Background: Ancestral Puebloan black-on-white ceramics of the American Southwest can be classified as containing pigments within their painted designs containing high levels of organic-based elements such as potassium, or mineral-based elements such as iron, or a mixture of these elements. The identification of pigment elements of the pottery of a site is fundamental in determining the site’s c...

Tell Awlad Dawood is a Predynastic and Early Dynastic settlement located in Sharqiya Province. The site small Tell. It has been occupied from the beginning of 4th millennium BC to Late Period, but its main occupation took place during times. eastern Nile Delta focus excavation since 1978. Until 1997, discoveries made date at were: some buildings, bowls, platters vats, ovoid globular pots, large...

Exposure to high lead concentrations produces severe alterations in central nervous system development and, consequently, in the behavior of both experimental animals and children (l-5). However, in asymptomatic children exposed to lead intoxication the resulting intellectual and behavioral abnormalities may be expressed in different waysi.e., as hyperactivity (S), fine motor incoordination (7)...

In this chapter we will review the use of x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning in the field of archaeology. The story will be told in roughly chronological order, starting with the first reported use of a CT scanner in the field of archaeology and then look at some some possibilities for the future. Since the introduction of the x-ray CT scanner in the 1970’s the quality of the images has st...

A variety of commonly available household and industrial ceramic items and some specialty glass materials were assayed by alpha pulse counting and ion chamber voltage measurements for radioactivity concentrations. Identification of radionuclides in some of the items was performed by gamma spectroscopy. The samples included tableware, construction tiles and decorative tiles, figurines, and other...