This article illustrates how changes in the use of vegetal temper Bronze Age earthen architecture Crete are a key line evidence for investigating appearance architectural craft specialization. The macroscopic study sundried mudbricks is combined with geoarchaeological analyses (SEM and thin section petrography) to explore patterns variations throughout Pre-, Proto-, Neopalatial periods (3650–14...

Speaking of a fully submerged hydrofoil craft, all the hydrofoils attached to the foilstruts of the craft body are fully submerged in the water, so that the disturbing wave forces acting on the hydrofoils are very small in their foilborne cruising compared with the forces on the surface piercing hydrofoils. Therefore, the fully submerged hydrofoil craft gives us a very comfortable riding. On th...

The scale of late prehistoric sociopolitical complexity on the ColoracWPlateau has been widely debated in the American Southwest. Proponents of an alliance model useJeddito Yellow Ware) manufactured at Hopi Mesa villages) as one offtur index wares. This distributional study ofJeddito Yellow Ware challenges aspects of the alliance model by using a data set that contains over 430 yellow ware site...

Although initially originated as a totally empirical relationship to explain the volume of trade between two partners, gravity equation has been the focus of several theoretic models that try to explain it. Specialization models are of great importance in providing a solid theoretic ground for gravity equation in bilateral trade. Some research papers try to improve specialization models by addi...

Abstract A mustard-gold-colored talc bead was recovered during the 2014 excavation campaign carried out in Lumbu (Mbanza Kongo, Angola) together with nineteenth-century glass trade beads imported from Bohemia and Venice. Results this multi-analytical minimally invasive study suggest that may have been brought to kingdom’s capital by means of an established intra-kingdom network or as offering i...

Discussions of spatial relationships are persistent features research on the organization craft production. Despite centrality issues, correspondence between patterning and economic remains relatively under-theorized, especially around questions power control. Drawing from literature ecology, specialization landscape archaeology, I develop an approach that considers scales patterning, projectio...

poetry writing has been characterized by spontaneity and intuition, but this spontaneity was neither pure nor innocent, for the poet had to carefully scheme his poetry, urged by his aspiration to be as elevated as his diction and craft could be, together with the competitive spirit which naturally reigns over poetic genius. the poet, thus, had to pursue means which could allow him achieve maste...