Ancient Olmec rubber balls to be preserved with anoxia technology (archaeologymag.com)
from nemeski@mander.xyz to archaeology@mander.xyz on 17 Sep 22:35
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verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 23:14 collapse

Fascinating. You know, they seem to be really up on this technology at the Steamship Arabia museum in Kansas City {midwest US}. They have anoxia rooms, in their research facilities, for preserving thousands of leather and other organics excavated from an low oxygen environment, i.e., the buried steamship Arabia. The archivists also use chemical freezing to preserve artifacts that would crumble if exposed to ambient conditions, perhaps ethanol? EDIT: Fixed punctuation around the ship’s name.