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Revisiting the Genoese Lapidary Inventory in Istanbul
International audienceThe Republic of Genoa established Pera opposite the Golden Horn in Constantinople in the mid-13th century. This renowned Genoese colony thrived until the Ottoman conquest and is the Galata district of modern Istanbul today.
Sağlam, Hasan Sercan
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ABSTRACT At the Huacas de Moche (HdM), one of the most prominent archaeological sites in Trujillo, Peru, the needs of an expanding modern community are in direct conflict with the desire to preserve the wealth of archaeological information. The undetermined extent of the HdM site introduces disputes in land usage where potential archaeological features
Jared Low +5 more
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Obsidian in the Caribbean islands? Mysterious Ceramic Age glass artefacts in the Lesser Antilles
Abstract The Caribbean islands witnessed a population expansion of ceramic‐using horticulturalists during the Early Ceramic Age (ca. 500 BC to 750 AD) from the Orinoco Valley to Puerto Rico. We examined 18 lithic artefacts from Guadeloupe and Dominica initially thought to be obsidian, a material believed to be absent from those islands. We investigated
Arthur Leck +9 more
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ABSTRACT Melt migration through Earth's crust drives well‐documented melt–rock reactions, locally changing rock assemblage and geochemistry. However, melt–zircon interaction remains understudied. We report on three zircon‐melt interaction events from the Pembroke Granulite, New Zealand.
Nathan R. Daczko +3 more
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Institute Artifacts Collection [PDF]
Artifacts seperated from ...
Institute Artifacts Collections
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Obsidian hydration dating by infrared transmission spectroscopy
Abstract The obsidian dating method converts the quantity of diffused molecular water within a near‐surface hydration layer to elapsed time using an experimentally derived diffusion coefficient predicted from the structural water content of the glass.
Fernando Franchetti +9 more
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First identification of sudoite in Caribbean Ceramic-Age lapidary craftsmanship
International audienceLapidary craftsmanship was an important part of the material culture of Amerindians in the Antilles during the Early Ceramic period (400 BCE to 400 CE).
Foy, Eddy, A +6 more
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“The lapidary style” suggests a manner of writing that runs close to working a material—carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine facets. Poised between the properties of the stone and of the jewel, this term holds the tensions of stone’s ...
Denise Riley, Riley, Denise
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Application of Filtering Methods for Removal of Resuscitation Artifacts from Human ECG Signals [PDF]
Band-pass, Kalman, and adaptive filters are used for removal of resuscitation artifacts from human ECG signals. A database of separately recorded human ECG and animal resuscitation artifact signals is used for evaluation of the methods.
Amann, Anton +2 more
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