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A 6,000 Year Old Salt Factory, Sheepish Medieval Fraudsters and What Computers Can Teach Us About Rock Art
Manage episode 306535299 series 3003832
Join Laurie and Ben this week as they discuss, the discovery of the oldest salt factory in western Europe, which is nearly 6,000 years old, why sheepskin was the material of choice for making parchment to prevent medieval fraudsters, and how machine learning was applied to australia rock art to see how good computers are at identifying when they were painted. Enjoy!
Links
6000 Year Old Salt Factory
Australian Rock Art
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/machine-learning-reads-arnhem-land-rock-art/
Sheepskin Parchment
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-sheep-skin-legal-papers-fraud-prevention-parchment
29 episodios
Manage episode 306535299 series 3003832
Join Laurie and Ben this week as they discuss, the discovery of the oldest salt factory in western Europe, which is nearly 6,000 years old, why sheepskin was the material of choice for making parchment to prevent medieval fraudsters, and how machine learning was applied to australia rock art to see how good computers are at identifying when they were painted. Enjoy!
Links
6000 Year Old Salt Factory
Australian Rock Art
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/machine-learning-reads-arnhem-land-rock-art/
Sheepskin Parchment
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-sheep-skin-legal-papers-fraud-prevention-parchment
29 episodios
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