In the Pueblo communities of New Mexico and Arizona, pottery is a skill that is traditionally passed down from grandmothers and mothers to younger women of the community. This custom was thought to have ancient origins, and archaeologists believed about a thousand years' worth of ceramics were crafted primarily by women in what is now the southwestern United States. But a new study of pottery at Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, the center of early Ancestral Pueblo culture 800 to 1,200 years ago, shows men and women were getting their hands dirty at almost equal rates. Michelle Z. Do...
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In the optics and optoelectronics segment, transparent ceramics products are used for various applications such as CCDs, CMOS, couplers, image and display sensors, and transmitters. The superior optical and mechanical properties of transparent ceramics ...
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