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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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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
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 4
The publication of this fourth volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin coincided with the broadcast of the series A History of the World in 100 Objects, a joint project between the British Museum and BBC Radio 4. Technical examination and analysis were undertaken on many of the objects...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 5
This volume presents 10 articles that reflect the chronological depth and geographical breadth of the British Museum collection. From prehistoric Switzerland to twentieth century Oman and from the banks of the Thames to the banks of the Nile, each sheds light on the material aspects of objects as part of...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 6
Volume six of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin comprises nine articles that encompass the examination of material from an extremely broad range of cultures and periods, from ancient Greece, Egypt and Afghanistan to Siberian and Native American objects, by way of voyages of trade and discovery in the latter...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 7
The contents of the seventh volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin reflects the diverse collections held by the British Museum. The investigations they describe include not only studies made directly on objects but also encompass research that aims better to understand the history, technology and treatment of objects....British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 8
The contents of the eighth volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin reflects the diverse collections held by the British Museum, with subjects ranging from an Aleut cape and cap to Ming dynasty paper money. Contents: Technical study of a rare Venetian turquoise glass goblet from the Waddesdon Bequest...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 9
The contents of the ninth volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin reflects the diverse collections held by the British Museum, with subjects ranging from the naturally mummified human remains from the Fourth Cataract region of the Nile Valley to some debased silver coinage of Henry VIII. Contents: Early...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 3
Editorial This is now the third issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan) to be produced in 2002. It presents an interesting range of articles, all of which take advantage of aspects of the medium in which it is published. The papers by Favard-Meeks, Judd and...British Museum
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Asyut: Guardian City
Few cities can claim as long and illustrious a history as Asyut, in Middle Egypt. Continuously inhabited for at least five thousand years, it ranks among the world's oldest urban centres, yet only now has Asyut begun to receive the scholarly and public attention it deserves. The 'guardian city' straddled...Regulski, Ilona ; Golia, Maria
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Relations between Archaeologists and the Military in the case of Iraq
In this short paper, I want to consider the controversial question of whether archaeologists should work with the military, principally in Iraq. During the course of 2008, the British Museum and the British Army collaborated in a project to inspect archaeological sites in the south of Iraq and to develop...Curtis, John
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Architectural Conservation of an Amun Temple in Sudan
Excavation of a 2000 year old Amun Temple at Dangeil in Sudan. Under the directorship of Drs Salah Mohammed Ahmed of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Khartoum and Julie R Anderson of the British Museum, London an excavation of the temple commenced in 2000. Dangeil is located to...Sweek, Tracey ; Anderson, Julie R ; Tanimoto, Satoko
conservation, Amun Temple, Sudan, and Dangeil
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Crowd-sourced Archaeological Research: The MicroPasts Project
This paper offers a brief introduction to MicroPasts, a web-enabled crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding project whose overall goal is to promote the collection and use of high quality research data via institutional and community collaborations, both on- and off-line. In addition to introducing this initiative, the discussion below is a reflection... -
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Dolphins at the British Museum: Zoomorphic Calusa Sinkers
The subject of everyday or “mundane” artistic expression in Native American material culture does not always take into account the idea that aesthetic design can have explicit practical as well as decorative function. This article explores this idea through objects from the Floridian archaeological collections at the British Museum.Davy, Jack
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Discoveries from La Manche: Five Years of Early Prehistoric Research in the Channel Island of Jersey
Since 2010 a new field project drawn from major UK institutions including the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has focused research on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic record of the Channel Island of Jersey. In this retrospective of five years of research the history of the project to date, its focus on...Pope, Matt ; Scott, Beccy ; Mills, Josie ; Bates, Martin ; Bates, Richard …
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Report of the Archaeological Survey of Chamak and its Surroundings, District Amaravati, Maharashtra
This report presents the results of a short programme of fieldwork targeted towards the investigation of the archaeological and geographical setting of the Chamak copperplate charter. This inscription, unearthed in the modern village of Chamak in 1868, records the grant of land to a group of Brahmins living in the...Hawkes, Jason D ; Abbas, Riza ; Willis, Michael
Vidarbha, survey, Vakatakas, archaeology, and inscription
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The Performance of International Diplomacy at Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda
Every year in Rwanda, a week of national mourning commemorates the Genocide of Tutsi, a brutal episode that began on April the 7th 1994 and resulted in the murder of up to one million people in 100 days. The genocide was returned to the global stage in 2014 when world...Giblin, John
memorialisation, Rwanda, genocide, international diplomacy, performance, and heritage