Ancient Olmec rubber balls to be preserved with anoxia technology
Submitted 10 hours ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to archaeology@mander.xyz
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/ancient-olmec-rubber-balls-to-be-preserved/
Submitted 10 hours ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to archaeology@mander.xyz
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/ancient-olmec-rubber-balls-to-be-preserved/
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
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?