This paper aims to bring new insights about weighing practices and instruments during Late Bronze Age in Western Europe. Northern France Southern England share the particularity of providing tiny balance beams weights dedicated weigh small quantities. It is traditionally accepted that most found Europe correspond roughly a same practice built around one metrological system. Nevertheless, deviat...

Abstract So-called “plate slags” from the archaeological Bronze Age copper smelting site Acqua Fredda were examined. What was common to all examined slags that their compositions, once converted and plotted on FeO-SiO 2 -CaO phase diagram, located at boundary between olivine wollastonite, resulting in melting temperatures of approx. 1100 °C for slags. Slags with a composition which fall within ...

The evolution of the concept of time, from the first hunters-gatherers communities of the Paleolithic to the Newtonian physics is shortly reviewed. In particular, attention id paid to the social needs that contributed to change this concept from the Prehistory to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age, the classical philosophy, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, up to the birth of modern sci...

Recent research has brought the prolific bronze industry of Bronze Age Colchis (modern western Georgia) into focus, but many aspects are still poorly understood. This study synthesizes and reinterprets legacy Cu alloy compositional data to investigate technological choices spatial patterning. It reveals a massive injection fresh copper system during Late Bronze–Early Iron Age, high degree selec...

Very few mutations derived from Mutator maize lines have been studied at the molecular level. The variety of Mu elements that can induce mutations, the relative frequency of mutant induction by insertion of a given class of Mu elements or by a Mu-induced genomic rearrangement, a possible intragenic insertion site specificity, and the molecular nature of reversion events are all unknown in the M...

is paper reports on the prevalence of traumatic bone lesions among Bronze and Iron Age populations in Armenia. A total of 51 traumatic injuries were observed in a sample of 147 individuals from 8 sites. Injuries were present in 37 males (46.3%, n=80), 13 females (28.9%, n=45), and 1 child (5%, n=20). In four sites (N. Getashen, Noraduz, Shirakavan and Lori Berd) the most affected age class was...