Archeological findings

FIGURE 6.3 (A) Figurative indication of archeological finds of Eleusine in India. 

Found only in the New World, there is evidence that peyote was used before the time of Christ. Some of the most solid archeological data suggest that the drug was taken by the Aztecs 3,000 years ago. An archeological find in Coahuila, Mexico, of a skeleton with a beaded... 

The city of Tel Dan, located at the border of what are now Israel and Lebanon, has been the center of much archaeological interest, It is located on an established Near Eastern tin trade route that originated somewhere near Susa during the Middle Bronze Age (2). The same trade route supplied tin for Crete. The source of copper throughout this time was postulated to be Cyprus. Tel Dan s inclusion in the Mari texts attests to the significance of metal working at Dan (or Layish as it was then known) (3-5). Full details of the archeological finds and context are reported elsewhere (6). 

A study of archeological findings and records indicates that chemistry has been applied for the betterment of humanity in India for over 4000 yr. However, this use of chemistry has been based on a technological rather than a scientific standpoint. The earliest users concerned themselves with metals for use in war and as money, ceramics for many and varied uses, and mixtures of herbs for the betterment of health. 

Berczi, S. (1989). Symmetry and Technology in Ornamental Art of Old Hungarians and Avar-Onogurians from the Archeological Finds of the Carpathian Basin, Seventh to Tenth A.D. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 17 715-730. 

Bone is the second most frequently transplanted tissue and more than 2 million cases required proper surgical bone substitution per year over the world [1]. Surgical bone substitution has a long history first historical signs of the process can be found in archeological findings of Peruvian, Aztec and medieval Arab cultures. The widespread... 

Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) was a professor at the University of CaHfomia from 1959 and responsible for its Geophysical Institution from 1962 to 1976. He saw the possibility in the C decay and developed a workable technique for age determination, a method that has great utility for dating of, above all, archeological finds. For this he got the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1960. 

The archeological findings of the School of Aristotle are located in the center of Athens, Greece. For the protection of the archeological site, an architectural competition was held by the Greek... 

Their use as fiber crops ( cotton fiber) has been known from the Inkas as well as from India and Pakistan since 2500 to 3000 B.C. due to archeological findings of precious clothes from ancient cultures. 

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