Posted on 07/07/2016 8:14:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 5,000-year-old industrial production center featuring furnaces, hearths, and mud-brick structures has been found in northwest India between two channels of the Ghaggar River. According to a report in Frontline, the settlement, occupied for more than 1,000 years, lacked the fortification walls, streets at right angles, citadel, and area for traders and craftsmen usually seen in Harappan sites. One of the furnaces, used for smelting gold and copper, had a platform where the smith could sit and blow through an underground tube to the fire pit. Nearby hearths were used to produce gold jewelry and copper fish hooks and spear heads. Among the artifacts recovered by the team were a copper stylus wrapped with gold foil. Pottery, beads, and jewelry made of shells, carnelian, lapis lazuli, jasper, agate, steatite, and amazonite were also produced in the site’s workshops. Researchers from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) think the site may have been abandoned because of climate change or flooding. For more, go to "India's Village of the Dead."
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“think the site may have been abandoned because of climate change or flooding.”
I did not know ancient Indians had SUVs. Now I know.
The earth has been warming and cooling for more than 4 billion years...
The river probably shifted its course, SOP for rivers.
Were they paying carbon taxes?
When I first glanced at the headline I thought is said Evacuated.
Then I wondered what the heck was going on that they had to evacuate.
3000 BC would be early Harappan, pre-Aryan Dravidian, I think.
That would be hard to explain. ;’)
Yup, a long, long time ago; the script (which remains heavily studied, but not conclusively deciphered) appears to conceal an unknown agglutinative language, and Dravidian is agglutinative, but that’s not exactly a four leaf clover in Asia. :’) Years ago I recall reading that the Aryans referred to the dead in the Harappan cities as “monkey men”, due to smaller stature and dark skin, a description which might be applied to, uh, some folks in India today.
Flooding? CLIMATE CHANGE!
Drought? CLIMATE CHANGE!
Out of Calgon? CLIMATE CHANGE!
Lost at Angry Birds? CLIMATE CHANGE!
The smith would not have been blowing air through a tube.
That’s what apprentice boys are for. Young with good lungs.
I’d be surprised if they hadn’t figured out the bellows, and that it hasn’t survived the long burial.
http://classroom.synonym.com/can-melt-gold-propane-7157.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Melt-Gold
http://www.kitco.com/jewelry/meltingpoints.html?sitetype=fullsite
http://nevada-outback-gems.com/Reference_pages/melting_gold.htm
The Kitco chart was interesting. I’d never thought aboult the melt points
of copper, gold and silver being so close together.
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