BACKGROUND The shells of molluscs survive well in many sedimentary contexts and yield information about the diet of prehistoric humans. They also yield evidence of symbolic behaviours through their use as beads for body adornments. Researchers often analyse the location of perforations in shells to make judgements about their use as symbolic objects (e.g., beads), the assumption being that hole...

Este artículo de investigación es una reflexión sobre el concepto y la aplicación del término postizo en imaginería-escultura religiosa, su valoración actual significado como elemento que no propio talla, sino agregado, caso los ojos vidrio, pestañas pelo, dientes uñas hueso —no así las vestimentas otros elementos, asientos o coronas—; esto implica restauradores formación frecuentemente cuestio...

In the fifteenth century, Chosŏn Korean clothes were exported to Jiangnan (江南) region in Ming China and became very popular among wealthy Chinese people. This was so-called “Petticoat Fever”. horsehair petticoat (Mamigun 馬尾裙) gave wardrobe a fashionable silhouette by supporting fully spreading outer skirt. Literati wore them, too. Mamigun fashion, which once enjoyed great popularity area, disap...

nazok kari, one of the woodwork art, is of arts that functional and artistic instruments has made from well paint woods by eleganceand precision.the evidences and documents indicated that orosisazi (sash making art) and, consequently, the nazok kariwas expanded in sanandaj city from safavidperiod. due to reasons such as lack of professional craftsmen and high cost, thesash making art (orsisazi)...

Dense and strong, hydrothermal-metasomatic jadeitite jadeite-omphacite rocks were used as tools adornments throughout the wider Caribbean since initial inhabitation. Regionally, rich sources of jade are known only in Guatemala (north south Motagua Fault Zone), eastern Cuba northern Dominican Republic, establishing that humans transported jadeitic material over vast distances. This study validat...

In spite of the parity relations between medieval towns and their country surroundings high level development settlement structures tracked during wide-scale research settlements Southern Russ, new excavations in non-fortified keep brining certain discoveries. This is remarkable at Khodosivka-Roslavske found by Northern Expedition 2007. The working over results 2007—2011 allowed testify highly-...

Europe and no fans had been installed. I pointed out that many of the speakers had slides to show, and that there was no screen. Obligingly, somebody went out and came back with a sheet, a hammer, and some large nails, then launched an attack on the new woodwork. This gave a white surface and effectively destroyed the panelling. Once when attending a medical meeting in Ghana I was invited to th...

Deposition of corpses in the ground is most common burial practice, which can allow interactions between polluting compounds and soil, groundwater, surface water, may afterwards lead to negative environmental impacts risks public health. The risk cemeteries contaminating groundwater related their location, quantity clothes, metals adornments buried, geographical, geological, hydrogeological, cl...

2006 We explore making virtual desktops behave in a more physically realistic manner by adding physics simulation and using piling instead of filing as the fundamental organizational structure. Objects can be casually dragged and tossed around, influenced by physical characteristics such as friction and mass, much like we would manipulate objects in the real world. In addition we explore giving...

U niversity professors have seasons that, in certain neighborhoods in the vicinity of large research campuses such as where I live, loom even larger than those dictated by our planet's journey around the sun. Right now we are deeply entrenched in the one I call hunting seasonjob hunting, that is. It starts ramping up in early fall with a surge in postings for faculty positions and pilgrimages ...