Combined with the number of cyclists pulling dangerous moves through traffic, and pedestrians blindly stepping off curbs in front of you, it makes the experience truly harrowing.

Pretty irresponsible reporting as the other article makes it sound like they did exactly the right thing. I feel like every BBC article on detector isn't finds should have boilerplate about reporting to the relevant FLO so people know.

As someone interested in archaeological metals, this is quite interesting. It seems they have carefully considered diagenesis, but I don't know enough about heavy metal uptake into enamel/dentine to independently assess.

In art history, does this have a connotation of "this is definitely a forgery" analogous to the connotation of "this was definitely looted" in the archaeology version?

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Ah yes, wells. Famously flammable.

Good luck trying to smelt metal with that "furnace." 🤔

Researchers have long suspected a link between bronze metallurgy and the invention of iron smelting, but direct evidence has been elusive. Our work help substantiate that link.

We show that copper smelters in the Early Iron Age were deliberately collecting and adding iron oxides to the furnace to help them smelt copper. They recognized iron oxides as a discrete material and were experimenting with its behavior in at high temperatures in the metallurgical furnace.

Got a question on Elgar wrong on my Life in the UK Test. Ironically, I only knew them from Peep Show, which I would argue is cultural knowledge essential to life in the UK.

Day 3: "I've made a terrible mistake, but it's too late to turn back"

Day 2: "OK, so this guy's Central Caucasian Culture is entirely different from the other guy's Central Transcaucasian Culture, but the Georgians' Lchashen-Tsitelgori Culture seems about the same (but not quite) as the Armenians' Lchashen-Metsamor sequence"