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The Gordion wooden objects are now recognized as the most important collection of wooden finds recovered from the ancient Near East. The group comprises over 100 fine wooden artifacts, including tables, a bed, a throne, serving stands, stools, footstools, plates, spoons, boxes, a parasol, and 12 carved wooden animals.
Simpson, E. "Royal Phrygian Furniture and Fine Wooden Artifacts from Gordion." In The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion, Royal City of Midas. Edited by C. B. Rose, 149-164. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2012. Simpson, E. The Gordion Wooden Objects, Volume 1: The Furniture from Tumulus MM. Leiden ...
The wooden furniture found in the tomb is especially noteworthy, as wood seldom survives from archaeological contexts: the collection included nine tables, one of them elaborately carved and inlaid, and two ceremonial serving stands inlaid with religious symbols and geometric patterns. Important bronze and wooden artifacts were also found in ...
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A ”club-like” wooden artifact, likely used when the chamber was built, was dated to 585 B.C. Experts believe the dating of the wood will confirm their early observations that the Riedlingen ...
Waterlogged wood is a wooden object that has been submerged or partially submerged in water and has affected the original intended purpose or look of the object. Waterlogged wood objects can also include wood found within moist soil from archaeological sites, underwater archaeology, maritime debris, or damaged wood objects.
Researchers have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure in Zambia, and it’s almost half a million years old, according to a new study. ‘Extraordinary’ structure has no real parallel in ...
The Thunderbird Archaeological District, near Limeton, Virginia, is an archaeological district described as consisting of "three sites—Thunderbird Site, the Fifty Site, and the Fifty Bog—which provide a stratified cultural sequence spanning Paleo-Indian cultures through the end of Early Archaic times with scattered evidence of later occupation."