On the materials of Odinovskaya and Krotovskaya cultures article considers influence Seima-Turbino innovations on bronze casting production Western Siberia forest-steppe regions population. The finds artifacts were recorded in culture burials Tartas-1, Preobrazhenka-6, Markovo-2 sites such as Chernoozerie-VI, Vengerovo-2, Abramovo-10, Sopka-2/4B, V, Rostovka. basis set is made up crucibles mold...

This paper considers pollution/toxicological science in an archaeological context. Copper mining was an important activity in southern Jordan, especially during the Bronze Age, Nabatean, Roman, and Byzantine periods, and the environmental legacy of such intensive mining and smelting activities exists today in the form of massive, ancient spoil and smelting tips. The environment was heavily poll...

Mankind has gone through many "ages"—periods of time when civilization has progressed through a particular new idea or technology. The bronze age, the iron age, the industrial age, the age of discovery are examples. Today we're in a different age. Some would say the computer age, some would say the information age. I prefer the latter, because information is the driving force and includes compu...

Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...