ABOUT THE COVER " I think of my work as an inhabited landscape, never static or empty…. The wind ruffles; ants crawl; a rabbit burrows " (1). A painter of Salish, French-Cree, and Shoshone heritage, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was born in St. Ignatius, Montana, and raised on the Flathead Reservation. She studied art at the University of New Mexico, but her personal aesthetic and her poetic associa...

with the advent of islam during the first half of the 7th century ce, pottery manufacture gradually started to change all over the islamic world. at the beginning iranian potters continued their pre-islamic traditions, therefore; nishapur potteries and their motifs can be seen as a link between two most flourishing eras in history of persian art (pre and post islamic period). the samanids were ...

Geometric modeling by constraints, whose applications are of interest to communities from various fields such as mechanical engineering, computer aided design, symbolic computation or molecular chemistry, is now integrated into standard modeling tools. In this discipline, a geometric form is specified by the relations that the components of this form must verify instead of explicitly specifying...

Casas Grandes is a prehistoric culture area located between Chihuahua, northern Mexico, and New southwest of United States America. It had an intense occupation with large buildings during the ceramic period, from 0 to 1450 CE, developing very particular painted potteries. In this study, magnetic properties archaeointensity experiments were investigated on two special types called Mimbres polyc...