The cone-shaped vessels that have puzzled archaeologists for decades – until now - Ancient vessels found to have soot ...

Ceramic cones dating back 6,000 years may have been wax lamps that illuminated ancient nighttime rituals for hours.

The research team examined dozens of intact vessels and hundreds of diagnostic sherds, and backed up the use-wear observations with experimental reconstructions, showing that wax-filled replicas can ...

A ‘mock meteorite’ made up of a ball of clay. Researchers used this model to show how objects moving through fluids like water will naturally erode into cone shapes. Image Credit: NYU's Applied ...

Chalcolithic cornets are conical ceramic vessels produced exclusively during the Chalcolithic period, recovered in abundance at some archaeological sites but absent at others. Their function has long ...

Meteoroids coming from outer space are randomly shaped, but many of these, which land on earth as meteorites, are found to be carved into cones. Scientists have now figured out how the physics of ...

"If in the system, whether virtual or real, the graph that represents 'correlations' (the arrows in the same direction) takes on a flask-shaped form rather than a cone, then we know that the particles ...