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...

Every archaeological excavation must deal with a vast number of ceramic fragments. The documentation, administration and scientific processing of these fragments represent a temporal, personnel, and financial problem. Up to now documentation and classification have been done manually which means a lot of routine work for archaeologists and a very inconsistent representation of the real object. ...

The pottery of Nineveh 5 is considered one the most beautiful ‎pottery in Mesopotamia, ‎period dating back to beginning ‎the third millennium B.C and contemporary period ‎of Jamdet ‎Nasr. This type was discovered for first time ‎fifth layer city Nineveh, a different ‎ manner from ‎previous periods. north Mesopotamia country ‎rich ‎this kind pottery, which these sites. ‎The Tell Lashkar, ‎is loc...

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....

Malang has many kinds of traditional art and music it is important that young people are aware their local as part cultural identity. The purpose this research was to explore which could be used learning materials for junior high school students, especially culture subject matter. This a qualitative approach. Data were collected through interviews, field observation documentation analysis. resu...

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...