Lecturer in Archaeological Science @CranfieldForSci. Studies technology, innovation, and the weird cool things people do with fire. Also the Caucasus.
Sep 22, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
V. interested to see the critique of #TallElHammam results from the perspective of a planetary scientist. I have analyzed lots of what I lovingly term "melted crap" from Near Eastern sites, and my first impression was that I'd seen a lot of this kind of thing elsewhere THREAD 1/
Here's a random selection of photos of material from one site, Mtsvane Gora, in Georgia (the country). Potsherds melted on one side, chunks of vitrified vesicular material, etc. Not shown: the obviously metallurgical slags found alongside this material. 2/
