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Art-SanatFigurines are significant archeological artifacts that depict humans and animals, often serving practical or symbolic purposes. Considering their location, these small artifacts provide significant insights into the belief systems of the cultures to ...
Rabia Akarsu, Elif Şener
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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A Figurine and its Scale, a Scale and its Figurine
Internet Archaeology, 2015 I was taught to think of archaeological photography as faceless, a to-scale and accurate depiction of ancient artefacts and sites but these rules only apply to one part of archaeological photography, the 'official' one.
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Female terracottas found in the Southern Turkmenistan archaeological sites of the Bronze Age
Studia Humanitatis, 2023 The article describes female terracotta figurines found in the archaeological sites of Southern Turkmenistan. The author describes the history of the study, decorative features, purposes of manufacture and use by the ancient population of these finds ...
Mommaliyeva Mayagozel Amanaliyevna
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Zoomorphic clay figurines from Tell Arbid. Preliminary report [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016 The collection of clay zoomorphic figurines from Tell Arbid, a site in the Khabur riverbasin in northern Mesopotamia, comprises nearly 600 specimens, dated mainly to the 3rd andfirst half of the 2nd millennium BC.
Maciej Makowski
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Recent Bibliography on Coroplastic Topics: 2016–2017
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2018 This list of recent publications pertaining to coroplast studies has been compiled mainly from Dyabola. ACoSt welcomes notices of publications pertaining to coroplastic topics that focus on material from the Near East, Egypt, Old Europe, Africa, and the ...
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Analysis and characterization of materials used in heritage theatrical figurines
Heritage Science, 2020 The precious collections of the Qing Dynasty paper-made theatrical figurines known as Shage xiren (纱阁戏人) represent a unique type of Chinese traditional folk art.
Yuxuan Gong +4 more
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Care‐Based Disruption, Creative Practice and Collaborative Empathetic Histories
History, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum essay examines the value of collaboration when creatively engaging with history as a means of developing empathy, care, and understanding. Creative and collaborative histories provide space to address the harmful misconceptions and preconceptions entangled in capitalist and colonial narratives.
SIERRA MCKINNEY, KATHERINE COOK
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