#archaeometry

[...] A sealed Iler's Malt Whiskey bottle with a remnant of a dark yellow liquid was recovered from a privy site in the state of Washington.

It had been stored on the shelves of the Burke Museum in Seattle for approximately 15 years.

A sample of this liquid, presumed to be whiskey, was submitted to our laboratory for analysis . [...] These findings left little doubt that the liquid in the whiskey bottle was in fact not a distillery product but urine. [...]

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Pigmentos y tecnología artística mochicas

Resumen: Para la civilización mochica, el arte mural representaba una expresión artística muy importante que permitía a la élite transmitir al pueblo una codificación simbólica de su propio poder. Por ende, más allá de un rol decorativo, desempeñaba una función de vector ideológico, fundamental para esta sociedad sin escritura textual. La importancia del adorno mural en esta sociedad llevó el…

Archaeometry Workshop is e-journal published by the Hungarian National Museum. Started in 2004, this journal focuses are archaeology method and sciences. It is published in both Hungarian and English, 3x a year, but most of the articles are in Hungarian. If your into sciences and new techniques then I recommend checking out the journal- http://www.ace.hu/am/indexe.html