Several flaked-stone crescents from the northern Great Basin were recently identified within James M. Collins artifact collection held in Archaeological Research Collections, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. These artifacts are morphologically and technologically consistent with other pre-Columbian reported region. The two obsidian exhibit compositions that Whitehorse/...

With the accelerated growth social media platform Instagram has seen over course of Covid-19 pandemic its potential as a tool for communicating archaeological science is becoming ever more apparent. The platforms’ focus on images and video makes it specifically suited visually rich fields like archaeology. Here we present results three-year effort in communication platform, analyzing audiences,...

for some 3 million years, the archaeological record is characterized by stone tools undergoing incremental changes. then around 40,000 years ago, the monotony of lithics is terminated by a profusion of visual representations, generally considered to be the world’s first objets d’art. this collection include a series of portable objects, especially figurines and, later on, the famous cave painti...

Textiles formed a major part of any ancient Mesoamerican economy. Based on ethnohistory and iconography, the Maya were great producers of cloth for both internal and external use. However, the archaeological identification of textile production is difficult in any tropical area because of issues of preservation. This paper examines the evidence for the production and distribution of cloth that ...

Multicast 1 is one of the best available service models for scalable, many-to-many delivery of data on the Internet. Multicast achieves scalability by letting sources send a packet only once, regardless of the number of receivers. In network-layer multicast, network elements (routers, switches, and so on) replicate packets at network branching points, delivering copies to all interested receive...