scholarly journals The Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast: An Overview

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Ulm ◽  
Ian Lilley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Initial Results

Since 1993 archaeological surveys and excavations have been undertaken on the southern Curtis Coast as the coastal component of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project. This paper briefly outlines the physical environment of the study region including geology, vegetation and fauna communities before presenting the preliminary results of archaeological surveys and excavations. These initial results suggest that the region has an extensive mid-to-late Holocene archaeological record that has the potential to contribute to understandings of changes in late Holocene Aboriginal societies in Central Queensland.

scholarly journals Revealing Hidden Local Cultural Heritage through a Serious Escape Game in Outdoor Settings

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Stavroula Tzima ◽  
Georgios Styliaras ◽  
Athanasios Bassounas
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Local History ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hybrid Type ◽  
Game Mechanics

Escape Rooms are presently considered a very popular social entertainment activity, with increasing popularity in education field, since they are considered capable of stimulating the interest of players/students and enhancing learning. The combined game mechanics have led to blended forms of Escape Rooms, the Serious Escape Games (SEGs) and the hybrid type of Escape Rooms that uses Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality technology, a type that is expected to be widely used in the future. In the current study, the MillSecret is presented, a multi-player Serious Escape Game about local cultural heritage, where the players must solve a riddle about the cultural asset of watermills. MillSecret uses AR technology and it was designed to be conducted in the real-physical environment and in an informal educational context. The paper describes the game, its implementation, the playing process, and its evaluation, which aimed to study the feasibility of game conduction in outdoor settings and the views and experience of players with the game, the local cultural heritage and local history. Evaluation results reveal, among other findings, a very positive first feedback from players that allows us to further evolve the development of the game.

scholarly journals Preliminary results of tritium analyses in basal ice, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A.: evidence for subglacial ice accretion

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey C. Strasser ◽  
Daniel E. Lawson ◽  
Grahame J. Larson ◽  
Edward B. Evenson ◽  
Richard B. Alley
Keyword(s):  
Drainage System ◽  
Supercooled Water ◽  
Ice Formation ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Ice Accretion ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Basal Ice ◽  
Basal Zone ◽  
Matanuska Glacier ◽  
Initial Results

The stratified-facies ice of the basal zone of Matanuska Glacier, Alaska. U.S.A., contains significant concentrations of anthropogenic tritium, whereas unaltered englacial-zone ice is devoid of tritium. Supercooled water flowing through subglacial conduits during the melt season likewise contains tritium, as does frazil and other platy ice that nucleates and grows within this subglacially flowing water. These initial results demonstrate net accretion of more than 1.4 m of stratified basal-zone ice since initiation of above-ground, thermonuclear bomb testing in 1952. Furthermore, these results support a theory of basal ice formation by ice accretion and debris entrainment from supercooled water within a distributed subglacial drainage system.

PANS Turbulence Model for Seamless Transition Between RANS and LES: Fixed-Point Analysis and Preliminary Results

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharath S. Girimaji ◽  
Ravi Srinivasan ◽  
Euhwan Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Point Analysis ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Seamless Transition ◽  
Bridging Model ◽  
Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes ◽  
Initial Results

Partially-averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) approach has been recently developed as a possible bridging model between Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method and large-eddy simulations (LES). The resolution control parameters in PANS are the fractions of unresolved kinetic energy (fk) and unresolved dissipation (fε). We investigate the fixed-point behavior of PANS and present some preliminary results obtained using this model. By comparing the fixed-point behavior of PANS and URANS (unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes) methods, the possible advantage of the former over the latter is explained. Initial results from two-dimensional simulations of flow past square results are also presented.

Holocene Environments in Northeast Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Martin Williams
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Flood Plain ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Maar Lake ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
White Nile ◽  
Ne Africa

This chapter provides an overview of the geography, hydrology, and climate of NE Africa, with particular reference to the complex interactions between river regime, climate, the biota, and human settlement. During the Early (11.7–8.2 ka) and Middle Holocene (8.2–4.2 ka) the climate was far less arid than today across the Nile basin, including Nubia, albeit with sporadic dry phases. Climatic desiccation set in during the Late Holocene (4.2 ka to present), with minor wet phases. Intervals when the Nile flow regime was apparently shifting from high to low flow and flood plain incision have provisional ages of ca. 8.15–7.75 ka, 6.4–6.15 ka, 5.7–5.45 ka, 4.7–4.25 ka, 3.35–2.9 ka, 2.8–2.55 ka, and 1600 ce. In the Kerma area of Nubia there were two periods of relatively dense human occupation in the earlier part of the Holocene from 10 ka to 8 ka and from 7 ka to 6 ka, with two significant gaps in the archaeological record at 7.5–7.1 ka and 6.0–5.4 ka, that coincided with very low levels in Lake Challa, a maar lake on the eastern flank of Mt Kilimanjaro, near the Ugandan headwaters of the White Nile.

Pose Tracking in Augmented Reality of Cultural Heritage

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Daniel Asmar
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Pose Tracking ◽  
Solution Methods

This paper briefly surveys pose tracking methods used for augmented reality applications in cultural heritage. The paper primarily benefits scholars and practitioners in the areas of electronic heritage. Pose tracking techniques are categorized as either being dependent or independent of their surrounding; accordingly, various solution methods in the literature are presented along with their advantages and disadvantages. I conclude the paper with a discussion on the open problems in pose tracking in cultural heritage and recommend future directions of research in this field.

scholarly journals IPS Observations at Miyun Station, BAO

2001 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 580-582
Author(s):  
X.Z. Zhang ◽  
J.H. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Radio Telescope ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Astronomical Observatory ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Preliminary Results

IPS observations have recently begun at Miyun Station, Beijing Astronomical Observatory. This paper briefly describes the radio telescope at Miyun Station, discusses the observation and the data reduction procedures and presents the preliminary results of observations on IPS source 3C48.

scholarly journals Preliminary results of tritium analyses in basal ice, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A.: evidence for subglacial ice accretion

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey C. Strasser ◽  
Daniel E. Lawson ◽  
Grahame J. Larson ◽  
Edward B. Evenson ◽  
Richard B. Alley
Keyword(s):  
Drainage System ◽  
Supercooled Water ◽  
Ice Formation ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Ice Accretion ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Basal Ice ◽  
Basal Zone ◽  
Matanuska Glacier ◽  
Initial Results

The stratified-facies ice of the basal zone of Matanuska Glacier, Alaska. U.S.A., contains significant concentrations of anthropogenic tritium, whereas unaltered englacial-zone ice is devoid of tritium. Supercooled water flowing through subglacial conduits during the melt season likewise contains tritium, as does frazil and other platy ice that nucleates and grows within this subglacially flowing water. These initial results demonstrate net accretion of more than 1.4 m of stratified basal-zone ice since initiation of above-ground, thermonuclear bomb testing in 1952. Furthermore, these results support a theory of basal ice formation by ice accretion and debris entrainment from supercooled water within a distributed subglacial drainage system.

scholarly journals Is the Truth Down There?: Cultural Heritage Conflict and the Politics of Archaeological Authority

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 143-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Barber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
The Past ◽  
Culture History ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Applied Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The selective pressures and processes of cultural heritage management effectively disinherit some interest groups. Where this occurs in the context of postcolonial or nationalist conflict, the material archaeological record may be referenced to support or reject particular views. The disciplinary assumptions behind the archaeological evidence so produced are not usually contested in judicial contexts. A review of archaeology’s theoretical foundations suggests that this naivety itself may be problematic. A descriptive culture history approach dominated archaeology over the first half of the twentieth century with a strong political appeal to nationalist politics. Subsequently archaeology became concerned with processual explanation and the scientific identification of universal laws of culture, consistent with postwar technological optimism and conformity. A postprocessual archaeology movement from the 1970s has promoted relativism and challenged the singular authority of scientific explanation. Archaeologists caught within this debate disagree over the use of the archaeological record in situations of political conflict. Furthermore, the use of archaeology in the sectarian debate over the Ayodhya birthplace of Rama suggests that the material record of the past can become highly politicized and seemingly irresolvable. Archaeological research is also subject to other blatant and subtle political pressures throughout the world, affecting the nature and interpretation of the record. A system that privileges archaeological information values may be irrelevant also to communities who value and manage their ancestral heritage for customary purposes. Collectively this review of theory and applied knowledge suggests that it is unrealistic to expect that archaeology can authoritatively resolve strident claims and debates about the past. Instead, an important contemporary contribution of archaeology may be its potential to document cultural and historical contradictions and inclusions for the consideration of contemporary groups in conflict.

scholarly journals IPS Observations at Miyun Station, BAO

2001 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 189-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wu ◽  
X. Zhang ◽  
Y. Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Radio Telescope ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Astronomical Observatory ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Preliminary Results

AbstractIPS observations have recently begun at Miyun Station, Beijing Astronomical Observatory. This paper briefly describes the radio telescope at Miyun Station, discusses the observation and the data reduction procedures, and presents the preliminary results of observations on IPS source 3C48.

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