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FINGERPRINTS ON FIGURINES FROM THONIS‐HERACLEION

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 399-418, November 2024.
Summary This paper studies ancient fingerprints to produce an estimate of the age and sex of the makers of several terracotta figurines found at Thonis‐Heracleion in Egypt, dated to the Late and Ptolemaic periods (seventh–second centuries BC). This is only the second study of its kind to discuss the use of ancient fingerprint impressions from Ancient ...
Leonie Hoff
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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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The ceramic vessels of the late antique and early medieval domus in the religious complex of San Pietro (Canusium, Italy): Clayey geosources, local production and imports in northern Apulia

Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 508-529, September/October 2024.
Abstract This study broadens our knowledge of the relationship between the clayey georesources available in northern Apulia and the artisanal production of ceramics. The focus is placed on a collection of 6th and 7th century A.D. pottery found in the domus excavated within the archaeological complex of Canosa San Pietro (ancient Canusium) in Italy. The
Elisabetta Gliozzo, Corina Ionescu, Roberta Giuliani, Maria Turchiano   +3 more
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Melōsa and her prize: The victory of a woman in ancient Greece

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 334-352, July 2024.
Abstract The earliest example of the Ancient Greek word for a victor's prize, nikatērion, comes in a verse inscription from the sixth century bce on an Attic kylix (wine cup) from Taras. It records the victory of Melōsa in a competition with other young women. This article draws out the significance of her victory and redefines our understanding of who
Ian Plant
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Human–Material Interaction Enabled by Fused Filament Fabrication 4D Printing

Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 26, Issue 7, April 2024.
In this review, 4D printing using fused filament fabrication and its impact on human–material interaction are explored. Fundamental principles, methodologies, materials, advancements in sustainability, and applications in soft actuators, smart toys, household devices, textiles, and wood‐based items are covered.
Mohammadreza Lalegani Dezaki, Ali Zolfagharian, Frédéric Demoly, Mahdi Bodaghi   +3 more
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media

Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.
Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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An overview of Principal Components Analysis approaches in Raman studies of cultural heritage materials

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 125-147, February 2024.
The present overview answers the need of evaluating the current state of the art concerning the application of principal components analysis (PCA) to Raman spectroscopy studies of cultural heritage materials. Painting materials, both colouring and binding ones, were considered, together with natural and synthetic glasses, biogenic and mineral ...
Alessia Coccato, Maria Cristina Caggiani
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Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 73-92, January 2024.
Abstract How did the Norwich Union, a life and general insurance company, come to see itself as a ‘local developer with people always at the centre of our planning’? This article explores how a small number of insurance companies, capitalising on their long history of property investment, used their investment funds, or ‘life funds’, to transform the ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Ganet: graph attention based Terracotta Warriors point cloud completion network

Heritage Science
Point cloud completion technology is used to address incomplete three-dimensional point cloud data, predicting and reconstructing the original shape and details to achieve virtual restoration.
Jian Gao, Yuhe Zhang, Gaoxue Shiqin, Pengbo Zhou, Yue Wen, Guohua Geng   +5 more
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Unsupervised Segmentation for Terracotta Warrior Point Cloud (SRG-Net)

, 2020
The repairing work of terracotta warriors in Emperor Qinshihuang Mausoleum Site Museum is handcrafted by experts, and the increasing amounts of unearthed pieces of terracotta warriors make the archaeologists too challenging to conduct the restoration of terracotta warriors efficiently.
Hu, Yao, Geng, Guohua, Li, Kang, Zhou, Wei   +3 more
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