Study of cultural-heritage objects with embellished realistic and abstract designs made up of connected and intertwined curves crosscuts a number of related disciplines, including archaeology, art history, and heritage management. However, many objects, such as pottery sherds found in the archaeological record, are fragmentary, making the underlying complete designs unknowable at the scale of t...

in february and march 2005, the archaeological survey of righ saray desert in the northern part of varzaneh was conducted. ancient rigsray is an area which has been buried by the sandy dunes at the western margin of the marsh gavkhoni. during this project nearly 100 archaeological sites were identified and recorded. one of the most important sites identified by the survey is saba 9 which is the...

in this essay, jelinki pottery (clinky- ware ceramics) has been studied as one types of ceramics at arsacides era. raw materials, quality of processing and baking conditions of potteries are some of effective factors in strength and stability of this material. employing purposeful methods of chemical analyses in order to examine such factors and in fact structural science of historical potterie...

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...