The gradual cumulative cultural evolution of locally adaptive technologies has played a crucial role in our species’ rapid expansion across the globe. Until recently, human artifacts were not obviously more complex than those made by organisms that lack cultural learning and have limited cognitive capacities. However, cultural evolution creates adaptive tools much more rapidly than genetic evol...

EDITORIAL article Front. Mater., 02 July 2021Sec. Environmental Degradation of Materials https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2021.719685

3D digitization of cultural heritage has long been used to preserve information about (CH) objects such as architecture, art, and artifacts. dissemination CH through technologies augmented reality, virtual printing have impacted the fields art history become more common. Yet, studies that go beyond technical aspects technology treat topics their significance for restoration, conservation, engag...

The use of tools or artifacts is essential to the human race and has been the subject of recent research in Artificial Intelligence. How individual agents acquire these capabilities and how they evolve can be considered vital steps towards understanding complex group capabilities. In a previous study, we designed and implemented an extended version of a theoretical model for artifact capability...

The automated processing of 3D models of cultural artifacts can be significantly improved with formally defined high-level structured descriptors. Despite the large number of multimedia ontologies, however, the semantic enrichment of 3D models still has open issues. Many 3D ontologies are semistructured only, cover a very narrow knowledge domain, do not provide comprehensive coverage for geomet...