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From value to desirability: the allure of worldly things [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, the author takes the approach that value is a judgment that people make about things based on desire, and the potential of the effects those things engender.
Harris, Susanna
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Cultural Tourism Products: A Case Study in the Xi’an City

, 2011
Nowadays, culture has been a major driver of tourism. Cultural tourism is another form of tourism by involving cultural elements. Some people traveled specifically to gain a deeper understanding of the culture or heritage of a destination.
Zhang, Yining
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Computer vision, archaeological classification and China's terracotta warriors

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2014
AbstractStructure-from-motion and multiview-stereo together offer a computer vision technique for reconstructing detailed 3D models from overlapping images of anything from large landscapes to microscopic features. Because such models can be generated from ordinary photographs taken with standard cameras in ordinary lighting conditions, these ...
Bevan, Andrew, Li, Xiuzhen, Martinón-Torres, Marcos, Green, Susan, Xia, Yin, Zhao, Kun, Zhao, Zhen, Ma, Shengtao, Cao, Wei, Rehren, Thilo   +9 more
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Crossbows and imperial craft organisation: the bronze triggers of China’s Terracotta Army [PDF]

, 2014
The Terracotta Army that protected the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang offers an evocative image of the power and organisation of the Qin armies who unified China through conquest in the third century BC.
Bevan, AH, Cao, W, Li, XJ, Martinón-Torres, M, Rehren, T, Xia, Y, Zhao, K   +6 more
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Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot, Luis Berrocal‐Rangel, Manuel Fernández‐Götz   +2 more
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Mushrooms and the wine of Maron [PDF]

, 2017
Although the excavators of the sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace recognize that drinking to the point of intoxication was practiced at the Mystery, naively this has not been seen as an element in the initiation scenario.
Ruck, Carl A.
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Tagging Very Small Fish: Two Effective and Low Impact Methods

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 345, Issue 3, Page 213-224, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Identifying individuals over time and across contexts is essential in many scientific fields. There are a variety of well‐established methods for uniquely marking individuals (e.g., visible implant elastomer, barcodes, paint). However, for some species, life history stages, and/or experiments, existing methods are not sufficient.
Deijah D. Bradley, Elianna J. Schimke, Alyssa P. Alvey, Hans A. Hofmann, Tessa K. Solomon‐Lane   +4 more
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Raman Spectroscopy Against Harmful Nitrogen‐Based Compounds in Cultural Heritage Materials

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 55, Issue 12, Page 1224-1235, December 2024.
A comprehensive review of the use of Raman spectroscopy to detect nitrogen‐based compounds harmful to cultural heritage. ABSTRACT Nitrogen‐based compounds are widespread in the environment due to various sources of natural and anthropogenic origin that introduce them from the most reducing form (the acidic ammonium cation) to the most oxidized (the ...
Jennifer Huidobro, Gorka Arana, Juan Manuel Madariaga   +2 more
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Influence of Taoism on the invention of the purple pigment used on the Qin terracotta warriors [PDF]

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2007
Until the 19th century, most pigments were based on naturally occurring colored minerals and dyes, with three significant exceptions: Egyptian Blue, Chinese Blue/Purple and Maya Blue. The former two are alkaline-earth copper silicates, and because of this similarity it has been proposed that the Chinese pigments were derived from Egyptian Blue. Herein,
Liu, Z., Mehta, A., Tamura, N., Pickard, D., Rong, B., Zhou, T., Pianetta, P., /SLAC, SSRL /LBL, Berkeley /Stanford U., Elect. Eng. Dept.   +10 more
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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 136-154, November 2024.
Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
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