Civilization
Colosses of Memnon, masterpiece by Amenophis Son of Hapu
In Egypt, the return of agglomerated (geopolymer) stone 1300 years after the Great Pyramids, under Amenhotep III and Akhenaton (18th Dynasty). Divine incarnation in carved stone became the rule under the New Kingdom around 1400-1200 B.C. and the hegemony of the god Amun. The soft sandstone from the Silsilis quarries, used for in the great [...]
The making of brown-black ceramics with LTGS in prehistory and antiquity
At the 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1984 Symposia on Archaeometry, Joseph Davidovits showed the possibility of fabricating ceramics by Low Temperature Geopolymeric Setting between 50°C and 500°C. The results obtained with LTGS have been surprising and very interesting from the archaeological point of view, e.g. the fabrication of ceramic whose surface is covered by an [...]
Making Cements with Plant Extracts
Fabrication of stone objects, by geopolymeric synthesis, in the pre-incan Huanka civilization (Peru) Joseph DAVIDOVITS and Francisco ALIAGA Abstract of a paper presented at the 21st International Symposium for Archaeometry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, 1981 (page 21). It is now agreed, that the TIHUANACO civilisation is modeled on the pre-incan HUANKA civilisation revealed [...]
Papers dedicated to archaeology in Geopolymer Proceedings
Brief summary of the papers dedicated to archaeology and published in the Geopolymer Proceedings : Geopolymer 2005 and Geeopolymer ‘99 Geopolymer 2005 Synthetic stone in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia manufacture of synthetic lava and synthetic basalt and decipherment of the C-14 Irtysen Stele (2000 B.C.) The C-14 Irtysen Stele dating 2.000 BC (Louvre Museum, Paris) [...]
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