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...

The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the requirements, the design and the implementation of an efficient software interface for the Extoll NIC. The resulting software is called Extoll Software Stack (ESS). The design of the ESS should be efficient and exploit the maximum performance that will be offered by the Extoll NIC. The software interface should be clear and intuitive. An important poin...

Ceramics, burnt stuff is the use of clay with or without other substances and rendered permanently rocklike, dense, vitreous by heat treatment. From its birth, traditional potters like their counterparts in art craft areas produced wares from concept to modeling drawing sketching. In hand building technique ceramics which involves pinching, coiling slab methods, practiced every ceramist, even t...

Abstract A sustained relationship between Cairo, Egypt more broadly, and eastern Ethiopia appears to have existed, particularly in the Ayyubid Mamluk periods. In general absence of historical sources, it is archaeology that provides primary insight into how why this was maintained, over twelfth thirteenth centuries. This considered through archaeological data from trading entrepot Harlaa with p...