The performance of the threaded connection is largely determined by the amount of tightening force value. One of the criteria for the connection performance is the presence of a minimum guaranteed contact pressure on the surfaces (flanges) to be connected. An important ...

Excavations in the lower city of Gath have been ongoing since 2009. In Area D, in the westernmost excavated portion of the lower city, excavations have demonstrated the presence of a well-fortified lower city as early as the eleventh century B.C.E., with the most substa...

AbstractThis note considers a Late Roman bath building recently discovered in Durrës, Albania (ancient Dyrrachium), near the presumed Roman city center. This discovery is particularly interesting given our limited knowledge of the urban layout and of bathhouses during t...

Intramural burials are common on the Anatolian plateau, beginning in early prehistory. Neolithic examples indicate that the incorporation of human remains into domestic architecture was a regular p...

Sf television programmes such as Star Trek, which play with real-world scientific practices and knowledge, condition public expectations about the ways in which those sciences are enacted. Yet this can be problematic given that the representation of science in these pro...

espanolEl siguiente articulo evidencia las practicas rituales, significados y memorias expresadas en la fiesta del Pachallampe en Socoroma. Se busca con ello la identificacion y comprension de los ritos y simbolismos desplegados por mayordomos y comuneros indigenas dura...

El anonimato o no anonimato en las donaciones de gametos está siendo foco de debates en el ámbito internacional, avanzando las posiciones más favorables a su levantamiento. En el caso de España, la ley prescribe aún el anonimato. En este contexto de debates en torno ano...

Summary In this article, a Mycenaean pottery sherd from Liman Tepe is discussed. The piece, which was locally produced, probably belongs to a ring-based crater (FS 281). Comparisons with other, similar sherds suggest that warriors aboard a ship are depicted. As one of t...

This study presents an overview of obsidian use from archaeological sites located on the island of Cyprus and spanning the period broadly defined as the Aceramic Neolithic (ca. 8900-5200 Cal bc). Diachronic changes in the use of this exotic raw material are investigated...

Thanks to the work of scholars such as Brent Shaw, it has long been recognized that both pagan and Christian infants are underrepresented on tombstone inscriptions in the city of Rome. However, attention has not been given to the differences between pagan and Christian ...

Family has always been an important aspect of the Italian way of life from antiquity to the present. Since the Roman Republic was an oligarchic state, the governing class had always been identified with families. The family pride in state affairs were advertised in the ...

The Egyptian view of the natural world is well understood: the landscape, whose elements were deified and personified, was viewed as an active and influential force on daily life. However, scholars...

This paper studies the passive impedance control of a robot manipulator with model uncertainty to perform manipulation tasks while interacting with dynamic environment. Impedance control is a powerful approach for the robot to perform mechanical tasks while interacting ...

espanolEl presente trabajo analiza la ocupacion humana en torno a los humedales de Valdivia, concentrandonos en los periodos alfareros prehispanicos e historicos hasta momentos finicoloniales. Se estudian, a partir de fuentes arqueologicas, documentales y carto- grafica...

Although the ultimate aim of the dominant heritage discourse and practice is to preserve culture in a way that contributes to peace and human prosperity, its paradoxical outcome has been to erase the variety of ways that people can relate to the past and to normalize et...

AbstractThis paper is the first assessment of the different sources and shapes in a selection of Gandhāran furniture. Two main types of furniture legs are discussed. These are thought to be originally wooden legs attached to chairs, stools, and beds that are depicted in...

This article analyzes the performative strategies employed by Favorinus in his Corinthian Oration. Previous scholarship has focused on two aspects of this speech: on the ways in which Favorinus agonistically alludes to Corinthian history, thereby challenging the city’s ...

Modern water-supply systems — hidden beneath the ground, constructed, expanded, adapted and repaired intermittently by multiple groups of people — are often messy and difficult to comprehend. The ancient water-supply system we consider here is no different — and perhaps...

Abstract Although ancient Olympia is usually viewed as a Classical Greek site, most buildings that are visible nowadays were not there yet when Pindar celebrated famous victors or Peisistratos and Alcibiades won their races. More generally, even though new research has ...

This chapter considers the practice and organization of agricultural production in Roman Italy drawing on textual, archaeological, and ethnoarchaeological evidence. As well as reviewing the types of crops cultivated and animals husbanded, it considers broader questions ...

Debts were a structural factor in the lives of small peasants in the entire ancient world. In Archaic Greece, Solon of Athens took the unique measure to cancel all debts, to abolish debt-slavery and to bring back those who had been sold abroad. For this innovation, he d...

The article deals with the problem of the arrowheads of the Scythian type dating from Central Europe of the Late Hallstatt period

The NeoArabia project tries to understand how environmental, social, economic and technological factors work in concert to influence settlement and abandonment along a latitudinal transect of 1200 km from UAE to southern Oman. This region was affected by wide north–sout...

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In March 2014, while recording finds in the Ministry of Heritage and Culture in al-Khuwair, artefacts unexpectedly came to light reportedly from al-Juba in Oman's Bar al-Ḥikmān, in al-Wusṭa Governorate, until recently an archaeologically little-researched part of the Su...

This study explores the manufacture, use, and archaeological classification of ceramic commensal vessels from western Sicily dating from the late Iron Age and Archaic periods (approximately 900-600 BC), addressing the stylistic transformation of pottery manufactured by ...

Abstract The Jezreel Valley Regional Project (JVRP) is a long-term multidisciplinary project investigating human activity in the Jezreel Valley through all periods through the modern era. This research incorporates extensive and intensive archaeological survey and excav...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la incidencia y funcionalidad de las deposiciones monetales en las tumbas de la necrópolis tardopúnica de Gadir. Para ello, se ha llevado a cabo una sistemática extracción de la información contenida en las memorias de las in...

espanolRESUMEN: Chile se ha destacado historicamente no solo por sus fronteras externas sino tambien por sus confines internos. En este articulo se presentan resultados de proyectos de investigacion Fondecyt que reflexionan sobre las fronteras internas y sobre la fronte...

A fragmented marble sculpture was found during the construction works on the canalisation collector in Skelani (Municipium Malvesatium). The sculpture presents a life-size bird’s torso with his right webbed foot placed on a female’s left thigh, part of a folded cloth an...

Despite high hopes from Seoul and Washington, China articulated that it was not ready to “abandon” North Korea in the wake of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear test in January 2016, and that there would be slim chance of this occurring in the future. Seoul and Washington’s (so far ...

Sassanian coinage is one the best sources for information on the individual kings from this Persian dynasty. This is because the coins are primary sources that are unaltered. The way in which the Sassanian coins changed is not a topic that has been dealt with extensivel...

This paper examines the ancient written, numismatic and archaeological sources that pertain to the political history of Olbia Pontike in the fifth and early fourth century bc. Several Olbian inscriptions that mention a certain Heuresibios son of Syriskos have been conne...

In the decades after the discoveries of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 1730s and 1740s, the two towns attracted the attention of many European tourists, scholars, and litterati. Although they were seen as primary examples of Greco-Roman culture and of the way people liv...

Bu makale, 2012 yilinda Castulo’da (Jaen, Ispanya) bulunan ve in situ olarak korunan “Asklar” adli Roma mozaiginin kapsamli bir calismasidir. Mozaik doseme, Baetica’nin mozaik sanatinda cok begenilen ve pusula adi verilen tasarimin bir varyasyonundan olusmaktadir. Burad...