The dataset contains concentration of major and trace elements of ancient potteries from Tamilnadu and grouping different potteries from the statistical techniques of factor and cluster analysis (Figs. 2, 3 and 4). The major and trace elemental concentration data generated using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence technique (EDXRF) and factor and cluster analysis data obtained using STATISTICA...

Before the Industrial Revolution, artists and artisans would strive to make a work as perfect as possible. They used the technologies of their time to make as fine a product as their skill and limited technology allowed. Given the long painstaking efforts involved in creation, such items were few in number and available to only a minuscule number of elites. They were the crowning achievement of...

Abstract Throughout the second century AD, civic centres of wealthy coastal cities Africa Proconsularis underwent deep-rooted changes. Up to this point local stone had been largely employed for their buildings, but from Hadrianic period onwards there was an increasing use marbles, which were imported with considerable efforts and at great expense. These marbles came primarily Italy, Greece, Asi...

The United Nations' sustainable development goals are supported by several distinct characteristics of creative social enterprises, which a dynamic force for the community's economic and cultural sustainability. Artisans use creativity as tool change can be found addressing issues such poverty eradication, access to health education, women's empowerment, ethical production, name just few. craft...