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  Virtual Vinča

  April 20, 2012 / Education, Featured, Film & TV, Technology
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  http://virtualvinca.com walktrough Virtual Vinča is an interdisciplinary digital art work of student Natalija Stojanović at the University of Art in Belgrade, Serbia. As a research scholar financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia Natalija chose to specialize in archaeology. She created a website with the aim of showing the public the Neolithic figurines excavated from 1998 to 2009 (and the most famous ones) at the archaeological site Vinča-Belo Brdo. Apart from creating 3D models [...]

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  Vinča figurines

  April 20, 2012 / Education, Film & TV
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  The Vinča culture is known worldwide for its figurines. They usually represent people, but some are in the shape of animals. These figurines are a treasure trove of data. They tell us a lot about the clothing, hairstyles and body decorations of the Vinča people as well as about the social organization of their communities. But how did they make these figurines​? Fine clay was mixed with sand and sometimes with a little chaff. The obtained mass was shaped as [...]

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