[SunkenCiv]

Alignment and orientation of voids in Minoan cups

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

• Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT Author links open overlay panel | Ilaria Caloi & Federico Bernardini | Journal of Archaeological Science

[ASOC]

Neat.

1) Are my tax dollars paying for this thru some bogus grant?
2) WHY?

Unless these folks think this is of impotence to the general population, I really don’t see a need to be able to reproduce fired clay cups... Why?

[Red Badger]

It’s lopsided.

They were on pot.................

[Tell It Right]

Depending on who you ask on dating these artifacts, and depending on who you ask on when each of the warming and cooling periods top out and bottom out, I believe this would be about the time a cooling period was bottoming out and the Minoan Warming Period was starting.

Find the Roman Climate Optimum in the graph below, then the red hump to the left of that, then trace that down to the blue dip to the left of that. This graph made from Greenland ice core data has that cooling period bottoming out about 3,200 years ago, thus the beginning of the Minoan Warm Period. I've seen some say it was more like 3,500 to 3,600 years ago.

Another interesting history of the Minoans IMHO is that they are probably the people origin of the Philistines in the Bible (Caphtor in Amos 9:7).

[skr]

Is it supposed to be tilted? I only dealt with pottery wheels in college, and tilted wasn’t usually what we were shooting for, although some of my attempts did lean until they fell over. :D

[mairdie]

Ancient Chinese Bronzes - Taoist Music Orchestra
https://youtu.be/C_DzPXDY8qU

Did a paper looking into the development of ancient Hittite pottery back in the day. This would have been a great paper to read.

[Albion Wilde]

Fascinating!