Abstract This study employs ceramic petrography to establish if the existing typology-based divisions for so-called Middle Nubian cultures can be related variations in technologies during mid-second millennium BC (c. 1800–1550 BC). Raw materials, paste recipes, and firing technology are analyzed identify similarities differences between C-Group, Pan-Grave, Kerma traditions. Three distinct fabri...

Mathematical Morphology has proYed to be a yery powerful methodology in various applications of image analysis: industrial control, medical imagery, telecommunications, material sciences... This approach, however, has not yet fully entered the geological domain although many morphological tools can be described by referring to the vocabulary of earth science. A morphologist commonly uses concep...