With Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, volunteers can work alongside archeologists uncovering ancestral Pueblo Indian relics of stone, pottery and wood in the southwest corner of Colorado.
Canopic jar, in ancient Egyptian funerary ritual, covered vessel of wood, stone, pottery, or faience in which was buried the embalmed viscera removed from a body during the process of mummification.
These grains were present in milling stones, pottery shards, and sediments from seven archaeological sites in Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, and the Bahamas, the team reports today in Science.
The use of artificial reefs in the Arabian Gulf have a history extending back over a century, when date palm trunks, stones, pottery and other materials were sunk in coastal areas to enhance fish catch.
Grave goods within these tombs include hollow ceramic figures, obsidian and shell jewelry, semi-precious stones, pottery (which often contained food), and other household implements such as spindle whorls and metates (see this Flickr photo for a reconstruction).
South India exported textiles, spices, medicinal plants, precious stones, pottery, salt made from salt pans, jewels, gold, ivory, rhino horn, ebony, aloe wood, perfumes, sandalwood, camphor and condiments to China, Dhofar, Aden, and Siraf (the entryport to Egypt, Arabia and Persia).
Archaeologists have found walls, gates, stone roads, pottery sherds and some brickwork, according to Xinhua.
Inside lay artifacts of bronze, gold, jade, stone and pottery and the tusks of elephants.
This system was based upon the material used in the construction of the instruments, the eight being stone, earth (pottery), bamboo, metal, skin, silk, wood, and gourd.
Increasing sedentariness is also to be seen in the remarkable bowls and globular jars painstakingly pecked from stone, for pottery was as yet unknown in Mesoamerica.
He has been teasing the soil away from bone, stone and pottery so perfectly preserved it could have been buried last year.
