{"id":183647,"date":"2021-06-22T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=183647"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:51:11","slug":"agh-university-of-science-and-technology-researches-a-subject-from-before-27-thousand-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/agh-university-of-science-and-technology-researches-a-subject-from-before-27-thousand-years\/","title":{"rendered":"AGH University of Science and Technology researches a subject from before 27 thousand\u00a0years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A computer tomograph from the\u00a0Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management of\u00a0the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow was used to examine a subject from about 27,000 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scientists analyzed a unique artefact made of deer antlers, discovered in the Bi\u015bnik cave in the Zawiercie district. It dates back from the Upper Paleolithic period and was made about 27 thousand years ago. Its surface shows traces of shaping and using. The tool was probably used as a pestle for treating flint raw material. The finding is one of the oldest examples of such objects discovered in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Research is conducted by Dr Justyna Or\u0142owska with a team from the Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archeology, the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru\u0144.<\/p>\n<p>Works were carried out by Dr\u00a0Eng.\u00a0Daniel Wa\u0142ach and\u00a0Eng.\u00a0Grzegorz Kaczmarczyk, using an X-ray tomograph at AGH. They proved that the tested antlers were used by humans and actually acted as a tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer tomograph from the\u00a0Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management of\u00a0the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow was used to examine a subject from about 27,000 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The scientists analyzed a unique artefact made of deer antlers, discovered in the Bi\u015bnik cave in the Zawiercie district. It dates back from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}