In an excellent example of how chemistry and archaeology run hand to hand, Thomas Fenn a graduate student from in anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson has sampled isotopes from copper jewelery of sub-Saharan Africa,
“three of which result from the slow decay of radioactive elements such as uranium. Fenn used the relative quantities [...]
Entries from March 2006
March 28, 2006
Ingots reveal early Saharan trade
March 14, 2006
The “publicity blitz” of the Turkish quadrupeds
Considering there’s somewhat of a wildfire of discussion on the group of siblings from Turkey, who walk on all fours both on this site and around the entire blogosphere… I thought I’d share with you John Hawks’ critical view on it. He calls it a “publicity blitz ” and states that we are all [...]
