Posted on 08/11/2023 1:34:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Prior research has shown that use of coal as a fuel source goes back many thousands of years, and its systematic use approximately 2,500 years. In this new effort, the researchers found evidence of systematic use approximately 3,700 years ago.
...two civilizations lived there nearly 1,000 years apart. The bottom level, the oldest, has been studied by other groups. The team on this new effort focused their attention on the layer that preserved evidence of habitation between 3,000 to 3,700 years ago—during the Bronze Age.
In addition to many artifacts, dig teams have unearthed coal from ancient fireplaces, storage pits, homes, smelting furnaces and near tool caches. Such a wide variety of sites, the researchers suggest, indicates that the use of coal was well established and it was used in many ways, including cooking food, heating homes, smelting metal and making weapons and tools. Or put another way, it suggests systematic coal use, nearly 1,000 years earlier than any previously known example.
The research team notes that in addition to the use of coal, the upper level of the dig site showed that much had been learned over the prior 1,000 years, such as growing crops, domestication of animals and the development of bronze processing. They also state that it was likely that the use of coal was adopted as wood became scarcer in the area. They also suggest that replacing wood with coal was likely a natural progression, as there was plenty of coal at or near the surface in the area, and the idea of using it as a fuel source likely was not much of a leap—coal has been known to combust naturally when exposed to the sun on a hot day.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Typical archaeological remains related to coal exploitation at JRTGK. (A) Coal ash unearthed from the floor of house site F1. (B) Coal pile unearthed from pit H112 in house site F25. (C) Coal lumps unearthed from house site F3. (D) Coal fragments incompletely burnt in stratum T2L3a. (E) Coal storage location near a furnace. (F) Stone artifact unearthed near a coal pile that was highly likely used for the coal fuel process.Credit: Science Advances (2023)
Some for tomorrow:
Those people would have been canceled like you wouldn’t believe. Lucky for them they lived before Twitter and the View panel.
For Everyone:
These remains are in China. Sheesh! Why did I have to post this info?
Forging Damascus steel....?
It is also much easier to melt copper and tin in a coal, rather than a wood fire. A coal fire can burn up to 3500°F, whereas a wood fire can’t get much hotter than 1000°F.
Bastids gave us climate change!
“...coal has been known to combust naturally
when exposed to the sun on a hot day...”
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First time I have ever heard of that.
Yeah, and the site of the sunburned coal is surrounded by human remains found to have died of thirst and sunstroke. :^)
No one had a gun ta ya head.
The brandon age doesn’t even have coal.
I’m surprised all the coal i have laying around my property didn’t go up in flames..especially during the hottest month in the history of earth?
suggests systematic coal use, nearly 1,000 years earlier than any previously known example
Documentary evidence indicates man has been contributing to global warming/climate change much earlier than previously known.
***coal has been known to combust naturally when exposed to the sun on a hot day.***
Absolutely true! In the coal fired power plants we had to keep a constant eye on the coal pile for “hot spots”. Often one of these small fires would work it’s way into a coal pulverizer and blow it up. What a mess! And deadly to anyone walking by.
“No one had a gun ta ya head.”
I was trying to be nice by not naming names but you had your smart-ass comment so that now I can say that I had to post the information because YOU neglected to do so. ;-)
IOW, you’re a troll.
Yow!
“IOW, you’re a troll.”
Flattery will get you nowhere. ;-)
Your right. It is all their fault.
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