abstract this article tries to look at the jewels of the ancient luristan (nowadays luristan province and some parts of ilam and kermanshah provinces), and to have a survey on this precious art and its typology. these jewels have been gathered by way of many scientific and unscientific excavations at last decades in the ancient sites like: kalmakareh, varkaboud, kalvali, sorkh dom, kamtarlan (k...

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1 Florisbad Quaternary Research Department, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 3 Karoo Palaeontology Department, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO, USA, Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife, Vets...

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a Palaeoecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands b Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1047, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway c Forschungsstelle für Paläobotanik am Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Müns...

1Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, England, 3Natural History Museum, London, England, 4Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 5Institute of Evolutionary Biology ...

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Most research activity concerned with building technology for museum visits is oriented toward the individual. Yet, people tend to visit museums in small groups. Ethnographic studies give a fundamental role for a successful small group visit to conversation among the members of the group, elaborating on their current experience. Can technology help fostering face-to face, natural conversation? ...

A small sample of hyracoid fossils from the late Miocene (,6.1 Ma) deposits at Lemudong’o, Narok, Kenya, belong to Dendrohyrax. This genus was unknown in the fossil record until recently, when almost simultaneously it was discovered at Lukeino (6 Ma) and Lemudong’o, both in Kenya. The fossils from Lemudong’o belong to a small species of the genus, not very different from Dendrohyrax validus. Th...