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Yes; metalworking is readily detectable through slag and furnace remains.
by wswope 3y ago
Yes; metalworking is readily detectable through slag and furnace remains.
- 082349872349872 3y agoWe can even distinguish if something that looks like it might have been a firepit actually was one by checking the induced magnetisation via the Curie temperature.
- lumost 3y agoIsn't the caveat here that we would need an archeological site which was last used within the >5k years ago? how many burn pits of any type have been detected on this time scale?
- wswope 3y agoThe number of discovered paleolithic burn sites easily ranges into the thousands. Later occupation of a site wouldn’t change much - substantially different eras are easy to identify by relative stratigraphy, and fires hot enough for metalworking can typically be loosely dated by their archaeomagnetic signatures.