Cultural objects of archeological findings are often broken and fractured into a large amount of fragments, and the archeologists are confronted by 3D puzzles when reassembling the fractured objects. Scanning the fragments and reassembling the corresponding 3D objects virtually is an elegant (and sometimes the only) solution. An efficient user interaction for the complex task to orientate or po...

I was asked to share my reflections about an article safekeeping. I then looked at my old notebooks from the 1950s and 1960s—loose-leaf binders with the pages that appeared over 40 years ago in the 1963 Cold falling out, many undated, just lists of numbers. They Spring Harbor Symposium for Quantitative Biology. The artiwere total gibberish to me. I hid them away then and cle (Epstein et al. 196...

Meanings attributed to Upper Paleolithic female figurines in the past have been based on the assumption that they are all alike in important ways. Attention is called here to the diversity of the figurines, and possible alternative interpretations. Among the earliest depictions of human beings, dating back to perhaps 30,000 years ago, are small figurines of nude females, which are found across ...

I thank all the discussants for their many critiques and comments, and for their considerable efforts. Many of the points raised are ones with which I (at least in part) agree. It therefore seems easiest to first deal with a number of points with which I don’t agree. First, Fuchs states (and Bentley appears to assume) that my analysis is documented in a book and in a movie, neither of which I h...

based on writing of tabari as well as other historical researches, mihr narseh, prime minister of bahram v (421-439 ad) founded a number of buildings in the province of ardashir khorrah. among public utility buildings, he built four fire temples in four villages in baryn plains of the same province. the current paper tries to find the exact locations of those temples based on references availab...