Contribution to art history: Ornament and its regulations [PDF]
Sinteze, 2020 The ornament is a part of every visual culture in the world. Its history goes back to early ages of human race. It is one of the most important fine art categories. The ornament was less important fine art category for a long time.
Žderić Tamara D.
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Torques from the 3rd century BCE Scythian graves in the North-West Black Sea region [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 One representative of these personal ornaments was found in a catacomb grave on the left bank of the Lower Danube, the other two were recovered in graves on the left bank of the Lower Dniester.
O.A. Zakordonets
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Symbols in motion: Flexible cultural boundaries and the fast spread of the Neolithic in the western Mediterranean. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The rapid diffusion of farming technologies in the western Mediterranean raises questions about the mechanisms that drove the development of intensive contact networks and circulation routes between incoming Neolithic communities.
Solange Rigaud +2 more
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Stasis or stimulus? Exotic materials and social display in Southeast Asia: Response to Pfaffenberger
Advances in Archaeomaterials, 2022 This paper assesses the relationship between metallurgy and social change in prehistoric Thailand. One model proposes that for about 15 centuries after circa 2000 BCE, peaceful village communities, being acquainted with copper-base metallurgy through ...
Charles Higham
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Frost damage and restoration of limestone domes and spheres in a heritage building [PDF]
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Van Bogaert, Philippe
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The white beauty – Starčevo culture jewellery
Documenta Praehistorica, 2012 The Neolithic is an interesting phase for observing the changes which affected the material culture and the ideology of the prehistoric groups in Europe. The production of personal ornaments improved and new types appeared. A new kind of adornment object
Selena Vitezović
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A Very Early “Fashion”: Neolithic Stone Bracelets from a Mediterranean Perspective
Open Archaeology, 2021 Ring-shaped objects, used mainly as bracelets, appear in the archaeological record associated with the first farming societies around the Mediterranean area.
Martínez-Sevilla Francisco +4 more
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Depigmented wing patch size is a condition-dependent indicator of viability in male collared flycatchers [PDF]
, 2003 Honesty of sexual advertisement is thought to be the result of signalling costs. Because production costs of depigmented plumage patches are probably very low, their role as honest signals of individual quality has been questioned. Costs of bearing these
Garamszegi, László Zsolt +2 more
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Ornaments reveal resistance of North European cultures to the spread of farming.
PLoS ONE, 2015 The transition to farming is the process by which human groups switched from hunting and gathering wild resources to food production. Understanding how and to what extent the spreading of farming communities from the Near East had an impact on indigenous
Solange Rigaud +2 more
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Peer Community Journal, 2022 Personal ornaments manufactured on marine and fossil shell are a significant element of Upper Palaeolithic symbolic material culture, and are often found at considerable distances from Pleistocene coastlines or relevant fossil deposits.
Rigaud, Solange +4 more
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