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The culture also featured various other distinctive ornaments KMK tribes practiced herding and made widespread use of chariots. [2] According to Anthony (2007), chariotry spread from the Multi-cordoned ware culture to the Monteoru, Vatin and Ottomány cultures in southeastern Europe. [3] Horses were domesticated on the Pontic-Caspian steppe. [4 ...
Buddhist scripture box made of Nanmu wood. Found in the white pagoda of Miaoying Temple during renovations in autumn 1978, dates from Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Nanmu (Chinese: 楠木) is a precious wood that is unique to China and South Asia, and was historically used for boat building, architectural woodworking, furniture and sculptural carving in China.
By 2650 BCE, the Funnelbeaker culture had been replaced by the Corded Ware culture. [6] Genetic studies suggest that Funnelbeaker women were incorporated into the Corded Ware culture through intermixing with incoming Corded Ware males, and that people of the Corded Ware culture continued to use Funnelbeaker megaliths as burial grounds. [14]
The saw microtome is especially for hard materials such as teeth or bones. The microtome of this type has a recessed rotating saw, which slices through the sample. The minimal cut thickness is approximately 30 μm and can be made for comparatively large samples. [18]
Model of the STK settlement at Dresden-Nickern, showing longhouses and circular enclosures. The Stroke-ornamented ware (culture) or (German) Stichbandkeramik (abbr. STK or STbK), Stroked Pottery culture, Danubian Ib culture of V. Gordon Childe, or Middle Danubian culture is the successor of the Linear Pottery culture, a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic in Central Europe.
Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...
Wooden box with full cleated ends (Style 2) Man with wooden box or chest, 1625. A wooden box is a container made of wood for storage or as a shipping container. Construction may include several types of wood; lumber (timber), plywood, engineered woods, etc. For some purposes, decorative woods are used.
Iroko wood was the wood chosen for the pews in the Our Lady of Peace Basilica. [ 19 ] It is a very durable wood; [ 20 ] iroko does not require regular treatment with oil or varnish when used outdoors, although it is very difficult to work with tools as it tends to splinter easily, and blunts tools very quickly.