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Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History
This volume is a comprehensive compilation of primary textual sources pertaining to the history of Hunnic peoples in the vast area encompassing Central and South Asia. Sources in nearly a dozen languages have been carefully selected by scholars with a specialisation in the particular language and relevant research experience. Each...Balogh, Dániel
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Book chapter
The Growing Pains of an Indic Epigraphic Corpus
As the papers in this volume testify, digital scholarly editing is a vibrant practice. Scholarly editing has a long-standing tradition in the humanities. It is of crucial importance within disciplines such as literary studies, philology, history, philosophy, library and information science, and bibliography. In fact, digital scholarly editing represents one...Balogh, Dániel
textual scholarship; scholarly editing; software; digital humanities
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Journal article
The Agenda Gap? Approaches to the Bronze Age in current research frameworks
It is now 60 years since the first formal consideration of future research directions for the British Bronze Age (and other periods) was published. Its purpose was to ensure archaeologists were 'taking the best advantage of all our opportunities, whether for deliberate field-work or excavation, or for turning chance discoveries...Last, Jonathan
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Book
Hoards: hidden history
Every so often a remarkable discovery hits the headlines – often an account of treasure hunters striking lucky after years of searching the land, or perhaps a chance find made by a farmer after ploughing. With each new hoard comes a story, or a number of possible stories and unanswered...Ghey, Eleanor
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Research report
Understanding and Monitoring the Cromer Forest-bed Formation
The Cromer Forest-bed Formation that is exposed on the foreshores of the Suffolk and Norfolk coasts is of critical importance in understanding the earliest human occupation of northern Europe, but is under continual destruction from coastal erosion. This report is the culmination of a four year programme to monitor and...Ashton, Nick ; Lewis, Simon G. ; Parfitt, Simon A. ; Bates, Martin R. ; Bates, Richard …
coastal; environmental studies; geoarchaeology; palaeolithic
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Journal article
A corroboree for the Countess of Kintore: Enlivening histories through objects
This paper discusses a corroboree performed in Darwin in 1893 to illustrate the potential of British ethnographic collections for researching overlooked historical events. The performance was brought to light after a collection of Aboriginal artefacts used in it was noted and examined by the author in the collections of Marischal...Sculthorpe, Gaye
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Technical Research Bulletin Volume 1
The first volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin focuses on material aspects of the collection, encompassing a wide range of activities, from looking at objects carefully and in depth – often under magnification – during the course of a conservation treatment, to analytical studies to determine the chemical...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 2
This second volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin contains articles that address the assessment, examination, treatment and analysis of objects from across the Museum’s collections and beyond, reflecting the diverse role that conservation and scientific activities play within some of the Museum’s wider programmes. The articles focus not...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 3
Although all 13 articles in the third volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin present research conducted in collaboration with the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, the co-authors represent six of the eight curatorial departments in the Museum as well as other museums and universities in the UK...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies