Prehistoric Chronology

A chronology for late prehistoric Madagascar.

A database has been assembled with 278 age determinations for Madagascar. Materials 14C dated include pretreated sediments and plant macrofossils from cores and excavations throughout the island, and bones, teeth, or eggshells of most of the extinct megafaunal taxa, including the giant lemurs, hippopotami, and ratites. Additional measurements come from uranium-series dates on speleothems and th...

Scene Chronology

Time Acknowledgments This work was funded in part by NSF grants IIS-1111534 and IIS-1149393, by support from the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Computing, and by support from Amazon Web Services in Education. References [1] Bryan Klingner, David Martin, James Roseborough. “Street View Motion-from Structure-from-Motion”. ICCV 2013. [2] Grant Schindler and Frank Dellaert. “Probabi...

Models for Chronology Selection

In this paper, we derive an expression for the grand canonical partition function for a fluid of hot, rotating massless scalar field particles in the Einstein universe. We consider the number of states with a given energy as one increases the angular momentum so that the fluid rotates with an increasing angular velocity. We find that at the critical value when the velocity of the particles furt...

Late Prehistoric Southwest

examining the role of glaze \vare pottery in the social lives of the late precontact and early contact Pueblos. By tracing the circulation of spe­ cialized knowledge, raw materials, and the glaze-painted pots themselves, through interactive networks ofvarying sizes and scales, these researchers reveal how glaze ware production, distribution, and use articulated with a variety of dynamic histori...

A Prehistoric Revolution