After the boom of pharmacological research during the 1950s, mainly as a result of the screening technique, the identification of active molecules, their reshaping by means of pharmaco-chemical drug design, and the creation of extremely efficacious and successful medicines, the pharmaceutical world sought a new source of inspiration. Such biota as the tropical forest, a quantity of plants credi...

the present article investigates the administrative structure of the pottery mound from an administrative management point of view. data obtained from excavation of the pottery mound has generated an extensive archeological databank relating to the beginning of the historical era with a focus on the emergence of management and administrative systems in the central iranian plateau. in the proto-...

There are ideas about Bhuta found in Ancient Tamil Literatures. They Fall into Three categories. Among them, natural objects (five elements) associated with Religion, the worship god Sathukka is Sramana Religions like Jainism, Bhddhism, and protective Ganam or collective Bhutas Saivism. This Article examines these three types of detail.

This paper describes some statistical analyses of a particular archaeological material (pottery) originating at some sites in the city of Tours. An important part of the archaeological study of pottery is the comparison of ceramic assemblages to establish the absolute dates of contexts. In this paper, a statistical model is built to assess this comparison. The statistical procedure uses classic...

The origin of pottery is among the most important questions inOldWorld archaeology. The author undertakes a critical review of radiocarbon dates associated with the earliest pottery-making and eliminates a number of them where the material or its context are unreliable. Using those that survive this process of ‘chronometric hygiene’, he proposes that food-containers made of burnt clay originate...

This paper deals with pottery assemblage from the chalcolithic phase of the site of Gilund in Rajsamand district ofRajasthan. Though pottery from this site has been studied earlier (Shinde et al 2002), however there was no literatureavailable on the ceramic chronology of Gilund with layers ascertained to it. This paper tries to build up a ceramicchronology in the site in order to indentify diff...

One of the most striking of the Hellenistic pottery fabrics has not come to the notice of Bulletin readers for some years, although the Museum has a good selection of it. This pottery is decorated, if at all, with reliefs, and has a glaze which is so often bright green that the ware is referred to as "green-glazed," even though other colors occur. With the recent addition of several pieces, the...

Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus's Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic periods. Although these ceramics are often assumed to be imports from Cyprus, excavations in southern Turkey at sites such as Tarsus-Gözlükule, Kilise Tepe, Sirkeli Höyük, and Kinet Höyük suggest that at least some...

this paper deals with pottery assemblage from the chalcolithic phase of the site of gilund in rajsamand district ofrajasthan. though pottery from this site has been studied earlier (shinde et al 2002), however there was no literatureavailable on the ceramic chronology of gilund with layers ascertained to it. this paper tries to build up a ceramicchronology in the site in order to indentify diff...