British Museum Research Publications

British Museum Research Publications

The Research Publications series publishes the results of research undertaken by Museum staff and associated researchers.

These can be in the form of excavation reports, collection catalogues, monographs and conference proceedings. The aim of the series is to make the Museum's research as widely accessible as possible, with a number of books available for free download in pdf format.

Originally called Occasional Papers, the series has been published since 1978 with over 200 books in print. Around six titles are published each year, and all are externally peer reviewed.

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    Japanese 19th-Century Copperplate Prints
    (1994)
    Clark, John
    After the 1870s there was an explosion in print production via non-woodblock media in Japan. This study examines this development looking at a group of etchings issued from the 1830s to the 1880s that are now in the British Museum, the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, the Scottish National Library, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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    British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt: Ashmunein (1983)
    (1984)
    Spencer, Jeffrey
    A report of the British Museum 1983 expedition to Ashmunein
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    The British Museum Winter Count
    (1979)
    Howard, James
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    The Iron Age Moulds from Gussage All Saints
    (1980)
    Foster, Jennifer
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    The Bronze Hoard from S. Maria in Paulis, Sardinia
    (1984)
    MacNamara, Ellen
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    Ridgeway, David
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    Ridgeway, Francesca R.
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    The Greeks in the East
    (2005)
    Villing, Alexandra
    Eight authoritative essays explore the changing relationships between the Greeks and their Eastern neighbours from the Bronze Age to the Classical period, examining archaeological evidence in the shape of pottery, wall-painting, sculpture, architecture, jewellery, seals, and inscriptions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including trade, settlements, and cultural and artistic interchange. They assess the actual presence of Minoans, Mycenaeans and later Greeks in the East and shed light on the economic and political interaction between Greeks and the peoples of Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the Hittite Empire, Phoenicia, Syria, and Achaemenid Persia. Milestone contributions include the definitive survey and analysis of the recent excavations at the most important Greek Bronze Age site in Asia Minor, Miletus – now even surpassing Troy in significance – and in-depth studies and reports on scientific analyses of the pottery from the important trading port Al Mina, allowing a re-evaluation of its position in trade between Greece, Phoenicia and Syria.
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    Metallurgical Analysis of Chinese Coins at the British Museum
    (2005)
    Cribb, Joe
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    Bowman, Sheridan
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    Cowell, Michael
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    Shashoua, Yvonne
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    Wayman, Michael L.
    This publication brings together the results of metallurgical analysis on Chinese coins undertaken at the British Museum during the last 15 years. The largest project looked at the metal content of Chinese cash coins over a period of more than 2,000 years. Although the results of the survey were published in 1989, the full details of the survey and photographs of the coins tested are presented here for the first time, along with an introduction by Joe Cribb and comments by Michael Cowell. Since then, smaller metallurgical projects have been undertaken at the British Museum, looking at specific questions, such as the iron content of Song dynasty coins, the brass content of Qing dynasty coins, and the question of metal supply for Qing dynasty coins. The results of these projects are brought together here for ease of reference, and are presented in chronological order of the material examined. In the last decade, numismatists and scientists in China have also been looking at similar questions, using coins from archaeological sites. Zhou Weirong's new book, Chinese Coins: Alloy Composition and Metallurgical Research, is now available, and an English version of the introduction, postscript and contents pages are published here.
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    British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt: Ashmunein (1985)
    (1986)
    Spencer, Alan Jeffrey
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    Bailey, Donald M.
    An account of the British Museum's 1985 expedition to Ashmunein.
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    Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 350–1100
    (2000)
    Price, Jennifer
    This volume, which originated in the 1986 conference on Anglo-Saxon Glass for the Archaeologist and Historian held at the British Museum, presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for glass and glassworking in Britain and Ireland between 350 and 1100. The eleven papers are divided into three sections and includes discussions of late Roman glass vessels in Britain, Anglo-Saxon window glass, beads and jewellery insets, Saxon glassworking at Glastonbury Abbey and Irish Early Christian glass.
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