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Mexican Painted Manuscripts in the UK
Mexican pictorial manuscripts offer rare insight into Ancient Mexican culture, particularly since disciplined study in this area is a relatively recent scholarly phenomenon. This study contains introductory chapters on writing, numerical and calendrical systems and materials, and in the catalogue, discussion of the texts, pictures, authors and history.Berger, Ute
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Neutron Activation and Plasma Emission Spectrometric Analysis in Archaeology
Sixteen papers giving an overview of research in the application of NAA and inductively-coupled plasma emission spectrometry to archaeology.Hughes, Michael ; Cowell, Mike ; Hook, Duncan
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Ivory in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Publication of papers presented at a colloquium held at the British Museum in 1990 providing an account of current research in the history of ivory and bone.Fitton, J. Lesley
Ivory and ancient Greece
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Aspects of Early North American Metallurgy
Studies of pre-European metal objects in the British Museum. They include including six North West Coast `coppers' and fourteen iron daggers and knives, collected in the 18th century; three Inuit harpoon blades from the Canadian Arctic; and 121 chiefly copper objects dating from 1000BC to AD600, from the 1845-7 Squier...Wayman, Michael L. ; King, J.C.H. ; Craddock, Paul
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The Ambleside Hoard: A Discovery in the Royal Collections
Documentation and description of the history and substance of the hoard, lost for over two centuries since its original 18th century discovery, and found once more in the Queen's collection.Needham, Stuart
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British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt: Ashmunein (1981)
A report on the British Museum's 1981 expedition to AshmuneinSpencer, Jeffrey