Ancient Burnishing Tool: Recycling in the Past
Автор: Artifactually Speaking
Загружено: 2022-06-22
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An ancient example of recycling? This broken piece of old pottery was shaped into a tool and used to shape new pottery at the ancient city of Lagash until it was eventually lost. We found it 4500 years later in our latest season of excavations. Here I talk about it with the assistance of Sara Pizzimenti, professor at the University of Pisa, specialist in ancient pottery, and co-field director of the Lagash Archaeological Project.
Check out the Lagash Archaeological Project website:
https://web.sas.upenn.edu/lagash/
I spent March and April 2022 in southern Iraq excavating at the ancient city of Lagash with a Penn Museum project (along with the University of Pisa and the University of Cambridge). While there, I made a series of short films about various finds we uncovered. Thus begins my series of Ancient Artifacts for Artifactually Speaking...
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