Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new technique for the radiocarbon dating of pottery, it was announced yesterday. The technique has been used on a collection of Early Neolithic pottery excavated by archaeologists in Shoreditch in London, dating the fragments to a window of 138 years around 3600 BC. One of the researchers described the newly dated collection as ‘the strongest evidence yet that people in the area later occupied by the city were living a less mobile, farming-based lifestyle during the Early Neolithic period’.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.