Producing Goods, Shaping People: The Materiality of Crafting
The study of craft production has a long and venerable history in archaeological research on ancient societies. In this chapter, I consider the crafting of useful and desired things from a materiality perspective by looking at the interactions between ...
Hendon, Julia A.
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Graphical and Analytical Quantitative Comparison in the Domes Assessment: The Case of San Francesco di Paola [PDF]
(Methods for checking the condition of monumental masonry structures can still be considered understudied. Among the different approaches available in the literature, the graphical ones have a special role, due to their simplicity and effectiveness.
Paris, Vittorio
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Forming the Cupolae With Concave Polyhedral Surfaces by Corrugating a Fourfold Strip of Equilateral Triangles [PDF]
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Mišić, Slobodan, Obradović, Marija
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The Natural History of Poland [PDF]
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Wiluś, Robert
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Diagrammatic Reasoning and Modelling in the Imagination: The Secret Weapons of the Scientific Revolution [PDF]
Just before the Scientific Revolution, there was a "Mathematical Revolution", heavily based on geometrical and machine diagrams. The "faculty of imagination" (now called scientific visualization) was developed to allow 3D understanding of planetary ...
Franklin, James
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The Sasanian Tradition in ʽAbbāsid Art : squinch fragmentation as The structural origin of the muqarnas [PDF]
Islamic architecture presents a three-dimensional decoration system known as muqarnas. An original system created in the Near East between the second/eighth and the fourth/tenth centuries due to the fragmentation of the squinche, but it was in the fourth/
Carrillo, Alicia
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Hypogenic Speleogenesis within Seven Rivers Evaporites: Coffee Cave, Eddy County, New Mexico [PDF]
Coffee Cave, located in the lower Pecos region of southeastern New Mexico, illustrates processes of hypogenic speleogenesis in the middle Permian Seven Rivers Formation.
Klimchouk, Alexander +2 more
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From Myotragus to Metellus. A journey through the pre- and early-history of Majorca and Minorca [PDF]
Majorca and Minorca, the most exotic places in the Mediterranean Sea. Every year, the archipelago’s beaches attract millions of tourists. Mark Van Strydonck found more than sand-castles: he encountered an extraordinarily rich prehistoric culture ...
Van Strydonck , Mark
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The Mezquita of Cordoba and Madinat Al-Zahra [PDF]
Traducción del texto en inglés, incluída en el ...
Torres Balbás, Leopoldo +1 more
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Il Risanamento degli agrumi dal viroide dell'Exocortite mediante il microinnesto [PDF]
Nearly all old line citrus trees growing in Sardinia (Italy) are infected by citrus exocortis viroid (CEV). The technique of shoot-tip grafting has proved effective in recovering various citrus cultivars free of this ...
Corda, Pietro Maria +2 more
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