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Entrusting the Witches to Ḫumuṭ-tabal: the ušburruda Ritual BM 47806+ [PDF]
, 2010 The hitherto unpublished Late Babylonian fragment BM 47806 + adds another example to the group of rituals which counteract witchcraft by banning sorcerers to the netherworld.
Schwemer, Daniel
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A tentative attempt to estimate the systemic number of the Late Neolithic Vinča culture figurines
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 In this paper an attempt is made to estimate the number of figurines which were in "use" in households of the Late Neolithic Vin!a culture. The number of accumulated figurines and houses is used as a starting point.
Marko Porčić
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L'archeologia sperimentale come metodo di indagine per lo studio delle Veneri del Paleolitico Superiore [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper we propose a new methodology to approach the study of the Upper Paleolithic Venus figurines using the scientific principles of experimental archaeology.
Basile, Martina
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The Sacred Engagement: Outline of a hypothesis about the origin of human ‘religious intelligence’. [PDF]
, 2007 The question that motivates the central hypothesis advanced in this paper regarding the emergence of early religious thinking is the following: ‘why does religion need material\ud culture?’ What basic functional or symbolic need renders material culture ...
Malafouris, Dr Lambros
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Images du Travail, Travail des Images, 2018 This article highlights how two major toy companies offer a combination of profane images of work and professional groups. In addition to increasing the readability of their products, the use of professional categories provides a set of evocative topics ...
Michaël Meyer
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Max Ernst and the Aesthetic of Commercial Tourism: Max Among Some of His Favorite Dolls [PDF]
, 2019 : "Max Ernst and the Aesthetic of Commercial Tourism: Max Among His Favorite Dolls" examines Surrealist artist Max Ernst's practice of collecting Hopi and Zuni kachina figurines.
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Statistical Model of Shape Moments with Active Contour Evolution for Shape Detection and Segmentation [PDF]
, 2013 This paper describes a novel method for shape representation and robust image segmentation. The proposed method combines two well known methodologies, namely, statistical shape models and active contours implemented in level set framework.
A. Foulonneau +29 more
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Meniscus Pixel Printing for Contact‐Lens Vision Sensing and Robotic Control
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A visual‐sensing contact lens is enabled by meniscus pixel printing (MPP), which rapidly patterns a 200 µm perovskite photodetector pixel in 1 s without masks, vacuum processing, or bulky equipment. A deep‐learning‐based super‐resolution reconstructs sparse on‐lens signals into 80 × 80 high‐resolution visual information, while AI‐driven eye‐tracking ...
Byung‐Hoon Gong +7 more
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Arts, 2013 This comprehensive overview considers the currently known Pleistocene palaeoart of Asia on a common basis, which suggests that the available data are entirely inadequate to form any cohesive synthesis about this corpus.
Robert G. Bednarik
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Immersive reality capabilities of relieving hiraeth
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Understanding how immersive experiences foster a sense of presence sufficient to rival real‐world experiences remains an open research area. Prior work has largely examined episodic memory recall in simulated environments, but less is known about how immersive technologies can reconnect individuals with personal memories.
Erica Mi, Fred Fonseca
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