The print was found at Ness of Brodgar | Jan Blatchford
Posted on 05/03/2021 2:31:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A fingerprint left on a clay vessel made by a potter 5,000 years ago has been found in Orkney.
The print was discovered on a surviving fragment of the object at the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site.
Archaeologists have been excavating at the complex of ancient buildings in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site since 2006.
Imaging technology was used to reveal the fingerprint left after the potter pressed a finger into wet clay.
Ness of Brodgar is the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Archaeology Institute's flagship excavation site.
The potter's fingerprint was noted by ceramics specialist Roy Towers, who was examining a sherd - a fragment - of pottery from a huge assemblage of clay pieces recovered from the site - the largest collection of late Neolithic Grooved Ware pottery in the UK.
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) was used to confirm the suspected print...
In this case, RTI work by Jan Blatchford confirmed and recorded the only fingerprint encountered at the Ness of Brodgar...
Excavation director Nick Card said: "Working on such a high-status site as the Ness of Brodgar, with its beautiful buildings and stunning range of artefacts, it can be all too easy to forget about the people behind this incredible complex..."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The FBI says it’s Trump’s and they think they can link it to a crime.
...and his iPhone STILL doesn’t recognize it. “Enter your PIN.”
Cool stuff. I’ve wanted to go to Orkney for years to see Skara Brae.
One would think there would be fingerprints left all over pottery and paintings from long ago.
Can’t imagine how they’d learn the gender and age of the potter.
Trump had a mother who was as Scotswoman. Orkney is in Scotland. If it's not murder, then it's collusion.
Gender and ethnicity can *sometimes* be determined, or at least stated in terms of probability. So, good enough for lawyers, but...
“The FBI says it’s Trump’s and they think they can link it to a crime.”
That was after they planted it on a piece of clay at the site in 2016 before the archeologists discovered it.
Tracing joe Biden’s timeline.
Longest “Cold Case” record😉
It was Colonel Mustard in the library with a flower pot............
Haggis you're onto something.
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