Key Marco
Key Marco Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
...were made of conch and whelk shell and deep middens of shells were combined into mounds or house platforms and built into revetments for dikes, canals and boat slips along the coast. The good preservation conditions of the Key Marco middens and coastal mud has yielded large quantities of normally perishable wooden, fiber and bone artifacts (Philadelphia, PA, Acad. Nat. Sci.). Most are commonplace bowls, tools, nets, weapons, paddles or boat and house parts and furniture; but there are also hundreds of personal ornaments (shell and wooden beads, bracelets,...
Morse, Edward Sylvester (18 June 1838) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
...Imperial University. Shortly after arriving in Japan, Morse noticed a concentration of seashells near Ōmori along the railway tracks between Yokohama and Tokyo. He recognized this as a prehistoric shell midden ( kaizuka ), and with his students' help he excavated the site between September 1877 and March 1878 . His well-illustrated description of this work, Shell Mounds of Ōmori , was issued shortly before he returned to America in 1879 . The Ōmori report established archaeology as a scientific discipline in Japan and introduced the idea of a “prehistoric”...
Ghent–Bruges school Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...Calkins : ‘Gerard Horenbout and his Associates: Illuminating Activities in Ghent, 1480–1521’, In Detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson , ed. L. S. Dixon (Turnhout, 1998), pp. 49–67 M. Smeyers : Vlaamse miniaturen: Van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament (Leuven, 1998); Eng. trans. (Turnhout, 1999) B. Dekeyzer : ‘The Mayer van den Bergh Breviary (Ghent-Bruges, early 16th century): Hands and Pigments’, La peinture dans les Pays-Bas au 16e siècles: Pratiques d’atelier infrarouges...
