shahdad and yahya which are two important prehistoric sites in the kerman province, are of most important forarchaeometallurgical studies. during excavations at these sites a number of metal objects have been discovered.moreover, evidence of metal working on the surface testify to manifacturing of metal objects. this also shows that thesite might have experienced craft specialization.the follow...

north-western iran comprises diverse geographical landscapes, including pastures of piedmonts, mountains, and well-watered plains. the present chronology of this region, nevertheless, is based exclusively on data collected from sites around the urmia lake, other regions being almost totally ignored. during the late bronze age (hereafter lba) a new way of life took shape in the mountainous regio...

The small statuette of a bound barbarian from Hungarian private collection is an interesting addition to the group these similar, although unusually harsh Roman representations their foes. Although without known findspot it further strengthens previous suppositions that were made and used for unknown purpose at limes, greatest concentration being in Carnuntum.

Masahiko NAKAYAMA*, John B. MOSER** and Evan H. GREENER** *Department of Dental Materials Science , Nippon Dental University, Tokyo 102 Japan **Department of Biological Materials, Dental School, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, 60611 U.S.A. Address: Department of Biological Materials, Dental School, Northwestern University, 311 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 U.S.A. Rece...

Medical image registration is pre-processing needed for many medical image analysis procedures. A very large number of registration algorithms are available today, but their performance is often not known and very difficult to assess due to the lack of gold standard. The Bronze Standard algorithm is a very data and compute intensive statistical approach for quantifying registration algorithms a...

Os sinos são instrumentos de percussão, da famı́lia dos idiófonos. São dispositivos de produção de som apenas aparentemente simples. O seu corpo é constitúıdo de uma liga metálica chamada bronze, que é uma combinação de cobre e estanho em proporções que podem sofrer ligeiras variações. No interior do sino encontra-se o badalo um pêndulo que, quando oscila, atinge o corpo fazendo com que o sino s...