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Animal Management at the Ancient Metropolis of Teotihuacan, Mexico: Stable Isotope Analysis of Leporid (Cottontail and Jackrabbit) Bone Mineral.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Human-animal interactions have played crucial roles in the development of complex societies across the globe. This study examines the human-leporid (cottontail and jackrabbit) relationship at the pre-Hispanic (AD 1-550) city of Teotihuacan in the Basin ...
Andrew D Somerville   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soyinka and Yoruba Sculpture: Masks of Deification and Symbolism [PDF]

open access: yesRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2010
The Yoruba mask is a piece of sculpture that is both artistic and functional. The carved work fulfils one or more of several functions—sacred or profane, personal or communal, serious or satirical.
Gilbert Tarka Fai
doaj  

The Language of Visual Communication between the Variable Culture and Beliefs in Light of Art Formation

open access: yesJournal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2018
Physical language takes on a universal dimension, where people can communicate through it as an understandable language related to the different environments and elements associated with man, animal, and plant, for forms that have meaning for the public ...
Hussein Abd El Baset, Fakhriya Al-Yahyai
doaj   +1 more source

Animal-Shaped Masks in Sixteenth-Century Italian Sculpture, Architecture and Armour

open access: yes21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
In sixteenth-century Florence a variety of sculptural or architectural ornament was developed in the shape of animal masks, often featuring several animals or parts of different animals in one object, and the presence of eyes half hidden behind the ...
Caroline van Eck
doaj   +1 more source

Voice and Instrument at the Origins of Music

open access: yesCurrent Musicology, 2014
During the summer of 2008, archaeologists uncovered some remnants of musical prehistory in the caves of Hohle Fels, Germany. There, among burnt animal bones and flint–knapping debris, they found fragments of three flutes (Conard, Malina, and Münzel 2009).
Jonathan De Souza
doaj   +1 more source

Reinterpretación del relieve histórico emeritense de M. Agrippa a partir de un nuevo fragmento

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 1999
La reciente identificación de un fragmento escultórico con la representación de un toro preparado ornamentalmente para su sacrificio, que se encontraba depositado entre los fondos del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, ha permitido relacionar la ...
Antonio M. Poveda Navarro
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting Drymaeus germaini (Ancey, 1892) (Gastropoda, Bulimulidae): ecological niche and first anatomical description of a poorly known land snail species from Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ
Background Terrestrial gastropods are one of the most imperiled animal groups in the world. However, information on population size and structure, geographic range and their trends over time, which is necessary to assess species conservation status, is ...
Maria Isabel Pinto Ferreira Macedo   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Budgie Smuggler: Selected work for 2015 Swell Sculpture Festival [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Budgie Smuggler is the first work of a series entitled slang, reflecting upon other, often unintended meanings behind popular Australian expressions. \ud \ud Synonymous with Australian beach humour, the term budgie smuggler unintentionally masks the ...
Lindquist, Marissa
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Metastasis on pause: How dormant tumor cells stay hidden within the tumor microenvironment and evade immune surveillance

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Dormant cancer cells can hide in distant organs for years, evading treatment and the immune system. This review highlights how signals from the surrounding tissue and immune environment keep these cells inactive or trigger their reawakening. Understanding these mechanisms may help develop therapies to eliminate or control dormant cells and prevent ...
Kanishka Tiwary   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial and single‐nuclei transcriptomics reveals idiosyncratic and generic patterns in papillary and anaplastic thyroid cancers

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Matched spatial transcriptomics and single‐nuclei RNA‐seq were generated for anaplastic and BRAFV600E papillary thyroid cancers revealing generic and tumor‐specific states occurring in cancer cells and in the tumor microenvironment. In this context, cancer dedifferentiation mirrored organoid maturation through ordered thyroid marker gain/loss ...
Adrien Tourneur   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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