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A fire in Bronze Age Spain ~1450 BC destroyed a settlement — and accidentally preserved something almost never found: the actual wooden frame of a loom, still loaded with weights. New study in Antiquity reconstructs it. anthropology.net/p/a-bronze-ag

A Bronze Age Loom, Preserved by Fire

Charred pine timbers and esparto ropes from a 3,500-year-old blaze in southeastern Spain offer a rare direct look at how Bronze Age weavers worked — and what they may have been making.

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