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European Visions: American Voices
John White travelled in the1580s on Walter Raleigh's voyages to 'Virginia' (now North Carolina) and made the earliest surviving watercolours of the flora, fauna and people of North America. This publication presents papers on John White and his pictures of America by experts in the field which has little published...Sloan, Kim
literature, natural history, American studies, Ethnography, history, and art history
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Etruscan by Definition: Papers in Honour of Sybille Haynes,MBE
These papers were originally presented at a conference in 2006, celebrating the work of the renowned Etruscologist, Sybille Haynes, in the year of her 80th birthday. Dr Haynes’ work has done much to elucidate and de-mystify the Etruscans, and this volume seeks to further define the Etruscan character manifest in...Haynes, Sybille ; Swaddling, Judith ; Perkins, Philip
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 8
Editorial This issue features an updated index of onomastica, along with a re-interpretation of architecture found during British Museum excavations at el-Ashmunein in 1982. Readers may have noticed that the first tranche of data from the British Museum’s collection database has been published online: Collections Online. At present, this is...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 9
Editorial This issue features three papers from the Annual Egyptological Colloquium held at the British Museum in summer 2007: The ‘Head of the South’: current research in Upper Egypt, south of Thebes (July 12–13). It is intended that further papers from the colloquium will appear in a future issue of...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 10
Editorial The three papers in this issue epitomise the range of subjects covered by BMSAES: a report on new fieldwork, the publication of an object in a museum collection, and a study of the modern reception and presentation of ancient artefacts. The journal is intended to cover the same range...British Museum
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Information, Interaction and Society
In reviewing the future of Bronze Age research in the final chapter of his immense pan-European survey, Anthony Harding (2000, 435) commented that the sheer scale and density of available data did little to encourage younger scholars. In Britain, the rapid growth of developer funded excavations with PPG 16 since...Roberts, Ben
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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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The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain
Over the last twenty years there have been tremendous advances in our knowledge of climate change in later British prehistory from a wide variety of proxy-climate sources. This chapter will summarise our present understanding for the period 2000-500 BC and highlight the areas in which further research is required. A...Brown, Tony
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Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
Pottery is often treated as a poor relation in Bronze Age studies. However ceramics have much to offer. During the last forty years a fairly esoteric subject, dominated mainly by detailed analyses of decorative motifs and the construction of elaborate chronological schemes, has been transformed into a powerful source of...Woodward, Ann