Sentences with word «potsherd»

Excavations at Lachish in 2014 turned up an ostracon (clay potsherd with writing) dating to around 1130 B.C..

This study has gathered together evidence for the presence of beeswax in the pottery vessels of the first farmers of Europe by investigating chemical components trapped in the clay fabric of more than 6,000 potsherds from over 150 Old World archaeological sites.

A self - described «dutiful wife,» Oates says she was left to draw potsherds — «the boring stuff.»

Broken pottery bits have drifted down slopes, mixing with earlier potsherds.

Along one of its walls, we found a pile of notched potsherds.

All around the altar lie potsherds, bone fragments, relics and other artifacts left behind by the Maya priests more than a thousand years ago.

Then there was Gala Porras - Kim's sculpture «Reconstructed Southwest Artifact,» which incorporated a painted Native American potsherd purchased from eBay (no provenance given, «condition: used»).

Amid a pile of mass - produced bowls were potsherds with marks similar to the pictographs that show up more than half a millennium later in the first writing system, cuneiform.

Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.

Archaeologists do not excavate «facts»; they excavate material remains — city ruins, wall foundations and potsherds.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue has cleaved to my jaws and thou last brought me down into the dust of death.

First, no matter how devastating an extraterrestrial impact might be, are we to believe that after centuries of flourishing every last tool, potsherd, article of clothing, and, presumably from an advanced civilization, writing, metallurgy and other technologies — not to mention trash — was erased?

On 56 of the potsherds, or slightly more than half the fragments, analyses showed a mix of fatty acids in the residues — and, in particular, a high proportion of palmitic acid to stearic acid indicative of plants, the researchers report online today in Nature Plants.

Oates quickly emerged as an expert not only in identifying the many varieties of potsherds but also in interpreting them with remarkable precision.

When Mellaart finally started digging there in 1961, though, he didn't expect it to be beautiful too; the potsherds he had found at the surface were undecorated fragments of cooking vessels.

The Yautepec excavations encountered quite dense concentrations of artifacts, and in six months of fieldwork, we recovered 1.2 million potsherds and nearly 50,000 obsidian artifacts, mainly blades and other tools.

And as tourism has ballooned in recent years, so have inadvertent damage to sensitive walls and dwellings made of stone and mud, and the disappearance of potsherds and other artefacts.

The archaeologist knows it's actually a potsherd, clay pottery tough enough to withstand the stresses of millennia.

Punk rock dating free through the analyses of the ceramic vessels and potsherds.

As it did, wave action eroded away all of the soil and left the potsherds and stone tools to gradually drop onto the bedrock below the place where they had been used 1,300 or more years ago.

The Museum of Memories solo show will be presented as a colorful and interactive installation, offering the visitors the possibility to dig deep into the potsherd of complexity of living in the world that is burdened with social relationships.