What does the symbol Ae mean in reference to archaeological artefacts is it a metal?

Ae is the symbol for the metal alloy Aenigmatite. It is a black or brown mineral that composes igneous and metamorphic rocks. Aenigmatite is a relatively rare mineral and not often used in archaeological artefacts.

What is the primary focus of archeology as a science?

What was Alonso Alvarez de motive to explore?

The Olduvai Gorge Paleoanthropological and Paleoecological Project. A study on the origin of the human being and his behavior.
In 2006 a Spanish-Tanzanian team under the co-direction of M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, A. Mabulla and E. Baquedano accessed the lower beds of Olduvai (www.olduvaiproject.org). Our team went back to the oldest layers of the gorge to unravel the origin of human behavior. The fundamental questions we ask our
The Vogelherd horse, the oldest equine sculpture in the world
On May 23, 1931, the historian Hermann Mohn found some stones fragmented by fire near a Neolithic necropolis in the Lone Valley, near the city of Niederstotzingen (Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany). On July 4 of that year he returned to the site together with Gustav Riek, discovering an opening i
The oldest bridge in the world, in the Sumerian city of Ngirsu
At present-day Tel Telloh in the Iraqi province of Dhi Qar is the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Ngirsu (sometimes transliterated as Girsu). It is about 25 kilometers northwest of Lagash, one of the two main Sumerian city-states, to which it was connected by one of the branches of the Euphrate
The enigmatic European prehistoric culture that cyclically burned its villages
Although there is a certain common tendency to think of the Neolithic -the last stage of the Stone Age- as a unitary period, the appearance of agriculture and livestock allowed sedentarization and with it the birth of the first agrarian societies, so that inevitably there had to be considerable dive