Naturally occurring minerals or their synthetic analogues have been important as pigments
used in artistic and cosmetic contexts in global antiquity. The analysis and identification of …

Acceptance of ritual as a valid interpretation of Mesolithic behaviour has slowly emerged
over the past decade; the 'silly season'heralded by Mellars (Antiquity 83: 502–517, 2009) …

This paper considers the results of an examination of painted pottery from prehistoric sites of
the Prmor'ye region (Southern Russian Far East) in the northwestern part of the Sea of …

Gandharan art developed in the Himalayan area in the early centuries CE. It has been
investigated mostly from an iconographic point of view, missing, until very recently, a …

Abstract The Attirement of the Bride, painted by Max Ernst in 1940, is permanently on display
in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (PGC) in Venice. Within the framework of a larger …

The combined use of microscopy and organic residue analysis on stone tools from the Early
Mesolithic site of Star Carr, England, has tentatively identified residues consistent with pine …

Max Ernst was one of the most influential artists associated with both the Dada and
Surrealist movements. However, until now, only few scientific studies have been devoted to …

In this paper, based on our previous expertise on ceramic artifacts, several archaeometric
methods applied to some samples collected from the Dudești archaeological site (Oltenia …

The present book does not am to depict or to describe the collections of Taylor and Heys in
full, even as far as the county of Yorkshire is concerned. To cover the entire collections and …

Gandharan art developed in the Himalayan area in the early centuries CE. It has been
investigated mostly from an iconographic point of view, missing, until very recently, a …