Comparing Ceramic Assemblages in Terms of Expenditure: A Case Study from Lower Fort Garry

Economie evaluations of ceramics have traditionally been made by using experience and intuition. The results of these methods may be accu-rate, but are nevertheless, unquantifiable and unverifiable. A more rigorous method has been used to study the archaeologicallly retrieved ceramics from several structures at Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba. Objects were assigned values derived by indexing prices from nineteenth century invoices and price lists. Two different sets of values or indi-ces were generated: those based on differences in the cost of decoration, and those based on differences in the cost of shape. The average value of the objects in an assemblage could then be compared with that from any other structure. Whereas intuitive methods of evaluating the ceramic assemblages from Lower Fort Garry had earlier found no distinguishable differences among them, the methods described in the paper reveal statistically significant differences in the average cost of ceramic items in the assemblages. Résumé D'habitude, on évalue la valeur des pièces en céramique en faisant appela l'expérience et à l'intuition. Les résultats obtenus sont peut-être exacts, mais rien ne permet de les vérifier ni de les quantifier. Dans cet article, l'auteur utilise une méthode plus rigoureuse pour établir la valeur des pièces en céramique trouvées lors de fouilles archéologiques à Lower Fort Garry au Manitoba. Les pièces sont évaluées en indexant les coûts figurant sur les factures et les listes de prix du XIXe siècle. L'auteur établit deux séries de valeurs ou d'indices: l'une basée sur les coûts établis à partir de différentes décorations de pièces et l'autre fondée sur les coûts établis à partir des diverses formes de pièces. La valeur moyenne d'un ensmble d'objets peut ensuite être comparée à celle de tout ensemble provenant d'une autre source. Alors que les méthodes intuitives d'évaluation des ensembles de pièces en céramique de Lower Fort Garry n'ont jamais permis d'établir de différences notables de coûts, les méthodes ici décrites révèlent des différences importantes en ce qui a trait au coût moyen des diverses pièces faisant partie d'ensembles

Comparing Museum Collections with Archaeological Collections: An Example Using a Class of Ceramic Items

An analysis of decorations and shapes in undertaken to examine the development of industrial slipwares. These materials are then compared with creamwares, pearlwares, and whitewares. The samples are drawn from archaeological, museum, and private collections. The author then offers a consideration of the nature of the differences between the archaeological and the museum collections

Epigenomic profiling of neuroblastoma cell lines.

Understanding the aberrant transcriptional landscape of neuroblastoma is necessary to provide insight to the underlying influences of the initiation, progression and persistence of this developmental cancer. Here, we present chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-Seq) data for the oncogenic transcription factors, MYCN and MYC, as well as regulatory histone marks H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K27Ac, and H3K27me3 in ten commonly used human neuroblastoma-derived cell line models. In addition, for all of the profiled cell lines we provide ATAC-Seq as a measure of open chromatin. We validate specificity of global MYCN occupancy in MYCN amplified cell lines and functional redundancy of MYC occupancy in MYCN non-amplified cell lines. Finally, we show with H3K27Ac ChIP-Seq that these cell lines retain expression of key neuroblastoma super-enhancers (SE). We anticipate this dataset, coupled with available transcriptomic profiling on the same cell lines, will enable the discovery of novel gene regulatory mechanisms in neuroblastoma

The Planned Obsolescence of TV Journalism

Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry\u27s high-tech trash. This book brings together representative research from the diverse body of scholarly work surrounding this often fragmentary field, and seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the study and teaching of media and labor. Essays examine work on the mostly unglamorous side of media and cultural production, technology manufacture, and every occupation in between

A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy: bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town

Although the urgency with which the Dutch East India Company administration at the Cape built defensive works was a direct result of their fear of attack from both land and sea, there was an additional imperative, for the Castle at Cape Town stood as a symbol of Dutch colonial aspirations. In this paper, we compare written and material texts of one part of the Castle's architecture to show firstly, how the discordances between such sources can reveal an underside of early colonization and secondly, how the Castle moat, in the seventeenth century a stamp of aspirant power, was by the mid-nineteenth century a dump and a public nuisance