Few studies have tested developmental differences in the perception of human body attractiveness and none have investigated development of Leg-to-Body Ratio (LBR) preferences. The aim of the current study was to determine whether preferences for LBR are largely innate and present among children in their early childhood, acquired in the course of socialization, and/or triggered by biological and...

Through the agency of animals, we think about our identity, landscape and society, therefore animal imagery holds a special place in approaches to human thought. study zoomorphic figurine assemblage recorded at Early Bronze Age site Koçumbeli-Ankara, argue that figurines this time period were produced through meaningful linking particular images raw materials use contexts. For example, ambiguou...

The Minoan peak sanctuaries call for systematic comparative research as an island-bound phenomenon whose significance to the (pre)history of medicine far transcends Cretan context: they yield clay anatomical offerings attesting earliest known healing cult in Aegean. sanctuary Petsophas produced figurines weasels, which are usually interpreted pests, ignoring their association with votives that ...

During the Hellenistic period and under growing influence of art painting, polychromy Greek terracotta figurines focused not only on an elaborate rendering color, but also interplay light shadow. Some best-preserved examples clearly show subtlety such pictorial effects. Among them is a statuette standing Maenad, held in collections National Archaeological Museum Athens (inv. 5000). Dating back ...

Abstract Matryoshka dolls, the traditional Russian nesting figurines, are known worldwide for each doll’s encapsulation of a sequence smaller dolls. In this paper, we exploit structure new nested matrices call matryoshkan in order to compute moments one-dimensional polynomial processes, large class Markov processes. We characterize salient properties that allow us these closed form at specific ...

Abstract The disposal of cultural material at Çatalhöyük, Turkey (7100–5950 cal BCE) has created substantial midden deposits between buildings and within abandoned houses. These consist a variety materials, including environmental remains such as eggshell, mollusks, seeds, phytoliths, charcoal, fecal material, along with artefacts pottery, figurines, beads, lithics. Animal bone human also form ...