Perhaps nowhere in European prehistory does the idea of clearly-defined cultural boundaries remain more current than in the initial Neolithic, where the southeast-northwest trend of the spread of farming crosses what is perceived as a sharp divide between the Balkans and central Europe. This corresponds to a distinction between the Vinča culture package, named for a classic site in Serbia, with...

Cultural change can be quantified by temporal changes in frequency of different cultural artefacts and it is a central question to identify what underlying cultural transmission processes could have caused the observed frequency changes. Observed changes, however, often describe the dynamics in samples of the population of artefacts, whereas transmission processes act on the whole population. H...

We describe the design and evaluation of a geometric interaction technique for bare-hand mid-air virtual pottery. We model the shaping of a pot as a gradual and progressive convergence of the potprofile to the shape of the user’s hand represented as a point-cloud (PCL). Our pottery-inspired application served as a platform for systematically revealing how users use their hands to express the in...

In an attempt to assess whether silica induces lung cancer, a nested case-control study of 316 male lung cancer cases and 1352 controls was carried out among pottery workers and tungsten, copper-iron, and tin miners from five provinces in south central China. Exposure to dust and silica for each study subject was evaluated quantitatively by cumulative exposure measures based on historical indus...

We describe the iterative design and evaluation of a geometric interaction technique for bare-hand mid-air virtual pottery. We model the shaping of a pot as a gradual and progressive convergence of the pot-profile to the shape of the user’s hand represented as a pointcloud (PCL). Our pottery-inspired application served as a platform for systematically revealing how users use their hands to expr...

A cross sectional radiological survey of workers exposed to pottery dust during the manufacture of wall tiles and bathroom fittings was conducted in a South African factory. Roughly one third of workers with 15 or more years of service in high dust sections of the factory had pneumoconiosis. Previously undiagnosed advanced cases, including two with progressive massive fibrosis, were working in ...

undoubtedly, pottery is among the most important information types that can help understand societies and cultures better. despite introducing pottery known as sultān abād and its classification over the last few decades, very limited information has been published so far on the origin of its type and about archeological sites containing them. the main reason for this seems to be that container...

Apraxia is a symptom on the border between cognition and motor control. It is predominantly caused by left brain damage and frequently accompanied by aphasia. Theories of apraxia have been dominated by a model of the conversion of mental images into motor commands proposed more than 100 years ago by the German psychiatrist Hugo Liepmann and revived for modern cognitive neurology by Norman Gesch...

Apraxia is a symptom on the border between cognition and motor control. It is predominantly caused by left brain damage and frequently accompanied by aphasia. Theories of apraxia have been dominated by a model of the conversion of mental images into motor commands proposed more than 100 years ago by the German psychiatrist Hugo Liepmann and revived for modern cognitive neurology by Norman Gesch...