Cemetery headstones contain historical and genealogical information that is largely untapped and is difficult to access. We introduce a solution through computer vision and OCR that allows the user to take a photo of a headstone with a GPS smart phone, review and correct, if necessary, the regions recognized as text, and have the text, images, and GPS location from the headstone extracted, reco...

The aim of this contribution is to examine the effect of an indiscriminate epidemic on a population to assess whether or not a catastrophic event can be identified from examination of paleodemographic data. Using paleodemographic techniques, the death assemblage from the Royal Mint site, London, a Black Death cemetery dated 1349 AD, is compared with that from St. Helen-on-the-Walls, York, which...

With the deenition of discrete line introduced by Reveilles REV91], there have been a wide range of research in discrete geometry and more precisely on the study of discrete line. By the use of the linear time line recognition algorithm of Debled and Reveilles DR94], A Vialard has proposed a O(n:l) algorithm for computing the tangent at all the points of a discrete curve. The complexity of her ...

Gravestones, which fall into the material dimension of cultures, are very important cultural objects. They monuments that give information about world to they belong, with their shapes and some symbols engraved on them, rather than objects erected graves materially. Especially for old Turkish world, does not leave much in terms written sources, tombstones, bearing traces traditions, first-hand ...

Mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA) polymorphisms were examinedin bone samples of individuals buried inan early Neolithic (c. 5800–4900 BCE) hunter-gatherer cemetery, Shamanka II, located atthe southwestern tip of Lake Baikal, Siberia. The mainobjective was to compare the mtDNA polymorphisms observed at Shamanka II to those previously reportedfrom the Lokomotiv (early Neolithic) and Ust...