Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made -- and how an empire functioned

Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made -- and how an empire functioned

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600-1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as to how the empire functioned. In a new study researchers showed that rather than using 'official' Wari pottery imported from the capital, potters across the empire were creating their own ceramics, decorated to emulate the traditional Wari style. To…

Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made, and how an empire functioned

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600 to 1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as to how the empire functioned. In a new study forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological Science and available as a pre-print on the SSRN server, researchers showed that rather than using "official" Wari pottery imported from the capital, potter…

Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made

Rather than using “official” Wari pottery imported from the capital, potters across the empire were creating their own ceramics. The post Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made appeared first on Archaeology Wiki.

Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made — and how an empire functioned

Peru’s first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600-1000 CE.