Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Estate in Spring Green, Wis., encourages donors to adopt individual artifacts, footing the bill to restore the architect's old home furnishings.
It's a genre that might be called detritus history: programs like "History Detectives," "American Pickers" and "Pawn Stars" that focus on individual artifacts and their tales.
The installation raises interesting questions: Is it an exhibition of individual artifacts or categories (the endless, often eye-glazing ceramic figures), spiced with the odd artwork?
National Geographic magazine has posted many images from the project online, at ngm.com/titanic, including ones that allow viewers to zoom in to see individual artifacts and parts of the shipwreck up close.
Image features are identified and measured based on the extent by which individual artifacts are present in a given image.
3-dimensional visualizations are becoming a very useful tool in various archaeological contexts, from representations of individual artifacts to complex sites and architectural reconstructions.
Our discrete-trait focus prevails across the range of analytical scales from characteristics of individual artifacts (e.g., Buchanan and Collard 2007; O'Brien and Lyman 2003) to entire cultures (e.g., Bettinger 2009; Chatters and Prentiss 2005).
The divers recovered some of the conglomerates and some individual artifacts in 1972.
The next year they recovered the rest of the large conglomerates, many smaller conglomerates and individual artifacts.
Until now, the study of the social and the cultural (individual beings, individual artifacts, and larger groups of people/artifacts) relied on two types of data: "shallow data" about many (statistics, sociology) and "deep data" about a few (psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology, art history methods such as "thick description" and "close reading").
