The pottery of Nineveh 5 is considered one the most beautiful ‎pottery in Mesopotamia, ‎period dating back to beginning ‎the third millennium B.C and contemporary period ‎of Jamdet ‎Nasr. This type was discovered for first time ‎fifth layer city Nineveh, a different ‎ manner from ‎previous periods. north Mesopotamia country ‎rich ‎this kind pottery, which these sites. ‎The Tell Lashkar, ‎is loc...

We describe an ongoing research project on efficient methods for reconstruction of objects from large collections of irregular fragments, such as ancient pottery, collapsed murals, etc.. Our solution for flat objects uses multiscale matching and constrained dynamic programming, and we are now extending it to curved pottery fragments. We seek collaborative projects with museums and other potenti...

This article reports on the successful completion of a large-scale pilot project, where 3D scanning technology, and newly developed software to optimally identify the rotation axis of wheel-produced ceramics, were used as practical tools for pottery analysis. Approximately 1000 potsherds from several sites and periods were scanned, their axis of symmetry computed, and their mean profiles drawn....

Cylindrical objects made usually of fired clay but sometimes of stone were found at the Yarmukian Pottery Neolithic sites of Sha'ar HaGolan and Munhata (first half of the 8(th) millennium BP) in the Jordan Valley. Similar objects have been reported from other Near Eastern Pottery Neolithic sites. Most scholars have interpreted them as cultic objects in the shape of phalli, while others have ref...

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...

this treatment. Personally I have used Ipecacuanha in the treatment of hepatitis since I first came to India : I remember, as a student, its value was very much impressed upon me, even though my teachers had probably very little experience of it themselves. Maclean, I think, first emphasized the value of Ipecacuanha in large doses in both hepatitis and dysentery, recognizing a connection betwee...