Fire, Clay, and the Quiet Discipline of Craft at an Iron Age City in the Zagros How archaeologists reconstructed a complete pottery production system at Dinka, revealing conservative technologies, shared knowledge & a form of urban organization long underestimated in the Iron Age

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-...

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🌿🗿 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
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Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str...

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
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The Beginnings of Pyrotechnology, Part II: Production and Use of Lime and Gypsum Plaster in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic near East on JSTOR W. David Kingery, Pamela B. Vandiver, Martha Prickett, The Beginnings of Pyrotechnology, Part II: Production and Use of Lime and Gypsum Plaster in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic near East, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), pp. 219-244

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

‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress workers face between now and 2050

#fire #pyrotechnology #climate
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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):

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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,...

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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