The 19th-century Italian art critic Giovanni Morelli contributed significantly to the theory and practice of attribution of paintings by prominent Renaissance masters.
Shamil N. Khaziev
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Stone Topography – Useful Tool in Monuments Restoration Process [PDF]
The surface of building stone on historic buildings often bears the original traces of craftsmanship processing. These are an integral part of the visual appearance of the monument and thus its value, which needs to be protected.
Cihla, Michal +3 more
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Applied Craft Science in Traditional Timber Framing Conservation [PDF]
The first step in any heritage project is its understanding; which is a process analogous to reverse engineering. Traditional reverse engineering involved the disassembly and reconstruction of a product to obtain a higher understanding of it ...
Weigert, Adam Boswell
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Theorizing the Economy of Traces: From Audit Society to Surveillance Capitalism
This essay is a conversation between Shoshana Zuboff’s theory of surveillance capitalism, Mikkel Flyverbom’s conceptualization of the hyper-visibility afforded by digital architectures, and my own ‘analog’ theory of accounting dynamics in the ‘audit ...
Michael Power
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The role of artificial contact materials in experimental use-wear studies: A controlled proxy to understand use-wear polish formation [PDF]
Traceological studies aim at the recognition and the identification of use-wear traces on artefacts to gain a functional interpretation of past human technologies.
Calandra, Ivan +3 more
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Back to the edge: relative coordinate system for use-wear analysis [PDF]
Use-wear studies rely heavily on experiments and reference collections to infer the function of archeological artifacts. Sequential experiments, in particular, are necessary to understand how use-wear develops.
Calandra, Ivan +8 more
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A new combined approach using confocal and scanning electron microscopy to image surface modifications on quartzite [PDF]
YesConfocal microscopy has been increasingly employed in the field of traceology to acquire metrological data of surface changes on a micro-scale. However, its advantages for a traditional visual inspection of use-wear are rarely highlighted.
Evans, Adrian A. +2 more
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Rethinking use-wear analysis and experimentation as applied to the study of past hominin tool use [PDF]
In prehistoric human populations, technologies played a fundamental role in the acquisition of different resources and are represented in the main daily living activities, such as with bone, wooden, and stone-tipped spears for hunting, and chipped-stone ...
A Borel +115 more
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: THE BRONZE AGE PAINTED CAVE OF " LES FRAUX ", DORDOGNE (FRANCE) [PDF]
International audienceFor six years, an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, surveyors, environmentalists and archaeometrists have jointly carried out the study of a Bronze Age painted cave, registrered in the French Historical Monuments.
Burens-Carozza, Albane +5 more
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La microscopía como herramienta metodológica en zooarqueología y tafonomía en Chile: casos y perspectivas [PDF]
The development of microscopy for the archaeological materials analysis since the early ‘50s, has strongly impacted the development of analytical methodologies that allow access to a record, otherwise, inaccessible.
López Mendoza, Patricio +2 more
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