CLA 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sulfite, Shaft Mining, Mudbrick
13 Mar 2016
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The human species has been deined by its ability to make and use tools, and many archaeologists look at our progress in term of technology. Thomsen 3 age system: stone, bronze, iron. These are the representaion of how humans act upon the world. Stone technologies bones and antlers were irst used to remove artefacts. Mines a mixture of open cast and shat mining: stone removed using either a hard bone or stone and loosened by ire. Quarries typically cut into a rock face in the ancient period, although large pits were also used: oten located when an archaeologist comes across uninished objects in the rock face. Stone tools are made by removing the core unil the desired shape of the rock has been atained. The shape and funcion of stone tools progressed over ime. Trying to get a sharp edge arrowheads, spear points, hammers. Pyrotechnology the intenional use and control of ire by humans.
