Both knapped and polished lithic industries have traditionally been given great regard within the archaeological studies of northwestern Iberian Peninsula, mostly focusing on their typologies and the materials used.However, this has not been the case with other stone objects, such as rolling stones, that tend to appear in certain prehistoric contex
The use of organic compounds in the European Union will in the future be regulated in accordance with the Council Directive 1999/13/EC of 11 March 1999 [1].In this directive, any organic compound is considered to be a volatile organic compound (VOC) if it has a vapour pressure of 10 Pa or more at 20oC, or has a corresponding volatility under the pa
Background and objective: In many real-world scenarios, including the blood smear domain, it is difficult for detection networks to achieve good performance because image annotation is usually time consuming and expensive.To address this issue, similarity-based distillation (SD) methods, considered the soft version of contrastive learning, are appl
A luxurious set of spinning implements was discovered as part of the furnishings in the grave of a woman, unearthed in the surroundings of ancient Viminacium.A unique amber distaff with the upper part modelled in the form of a female bust stands out as the most important part of the grave assemblage.Similar artefacts were often misinterpreted, but