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Finding the Divine Falernian: Amber in Early Modern Italy
This paper explores both the finding of raw amber, and the creation of sculptural works in this venerated material, in Italy, from the late-16th to the 18th centuries. Using new archival and archaeological evidence, it offers new interpretation and context for a number of amber objects in the V&A’s collection.King, Rachel
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Scotland crosses the Atlantic: evidence for eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ceramic trade
Every field of the decorative arts in colonial and early America is infused with Scottish culture - from furniture, textiles and weaponry to silver, jewellery, glass and ceramics. Making for America is a fascinating study of the transatlantic relationship between Scottish craftsmanship and the emigrant workers of the eighteenth and...Haggarty, George
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Exhibiting Livingstone: A life and legacy on display
The paper combines a biographical and a geographical perspective to construct an auto-critique of a commemorative exhibition as a museological event. Taking as its primary focus the bicentenary exhibition staged in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh in 2012–2013, it situates an autobiographical exploration of the process of collaboration...Worden, Sarah ; Swinney, Geoffrey N
Malawi, Scotland, curation, museology, commemoration, and visitor experience
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Sehr geschaetzte Werke der Manuellen Kunst’ ‘Objekte aus Bernstein im 16. und 17
IN PREUSSEN NEHMLICH im Fürstenthumb Samland am Meere seind hohe weiße Berge von reinem Sande auff diesen stehen gemeiniglich Eiche auch Fichtenbäume. In dem Sande fi ndet man eine Materia, die ist weich wie ein Teich den man formiren kan in den Ofen zu stoßen Brod zu backen. …. So...King, Rachel
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Palaeontological site conservation and the professional collector
Professional (i.e. commercial) fossil collectors can and do use sites responsibly. They benefit palaeontology by finding new fossils. Control of this collecting is counterproductive on eroding coasts and new exposures opened up by such collectors. Irresponsible professional collectors are not a major cause of damage compared to other collectors, quarry...Taylor, Michael A
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The influence of Scotland in American cabinet making
Every field of the decorative arts in colonial and early America is infused with Scottish culture - from furniture, textiles and weaponry to silver, jewellery, glass and ceramics. Making for America is a fascinating study of the transatlantic relationship between Scottish craftsmanship and the emigrant workers of the eighteenth and...Jackson, Stephen
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Palaeontological site conservation and the law in Britain
The legal situation regarding palaeontological site conservation in Britain is unclear. There is no modern review of the law. Five main areas of concern are identified. Most exsisting laws do not specifically consider the needs of palaeontological conservation. Legislation empowers the Nature Conservancy Council upon policy decisions. The NCC is...Taylor, Michael A ; Harte, J D C
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Avian cerebellar floccular fossa size is not a proxy for flying ability in birds
Extinct animal behavior has often been inferred from qualitative assessments of relative brain region size in fossil endocranial casts. For instance, flight capability in pterosaurs and early birds has been inferred from the relative size of the cerebellar flocculus, which in life protrudes from the lateral surface of the cerebellum....Walsh, Stig A ; Iwaniuk, Andrew N ; Knoll, Monja A ; Bourdon, Estelle ; Barrett, Paul M …
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Moth populations and bad weather – four speculative observations
There is no doubt in my mind that fifty years ago substantial defoliation of more than just spindle and bird cherry trees was not really unusual; that the regular cleaning of car headlamps and even radiator grills was necessary in summer; that garden buddleia and valerian were always plastered with...Shaw, Mark R
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The Ellismuir fossil arachnid- the only known Scottish Carboniferous trigonotarbid
Elaverimartus pococki Petrunkevitch 1953 from above the Kiltongue Coal Seam (Langsettian) of Ellismuir, Baillieston (Glasgow) is the only example of the extinct arachnid order Trigonotarbida recorded from the Carboniferous Coal Measures of Scotland. The fossil is from the Robert Dunlop collection and, although not so well preserved, historical documentation in...Dunlop, J A ; Ross, Andrew ; Stewart, Sarah E
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The first diplatyid earwig in Tertiary amber (Dermaptera: Diplatyidae): A new species from Miocene Mexican amber
The first earwig (Dermaptera) to be described from Mexican (Miocene) amber is named Haplodiplatys crightoni Ross & Engel sp.n., represented by an adult female and constituting the second record of the basal family Diplatyidae in the fossil record. Brief comments are made regarding the biogeographic implications of the fossil and...Ross, Andrew ; Engel, M S
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Growth, age and size of the Jurassic pachycormid Leedsichthys problematicus (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii)
The Jurassic pachycormid osteichthyan Leedsichthys problematicus is renowned for having been able to achieve prodigious size for a bony fish. Building on work of MARTILL (1986a), a thorough examination of all known material was conducted in order to constrain estimates of the size of this animal and examine its rate...Liston, Jeff ; Newbrey, Michael G. ; Challands, Thomas James ; Adams, Colin E
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The plasticity of gill raker characteristics in suspension feeders: Implications for Pachycormiformes
Pachycormids apparently represent part of the first radiation of the total group of teleosts, and therefore are important in understanding stem teleost phylogeny. Gill rakers (or fanunculi) are elements of the gill skeleton (branchial basket) in fishes that function primarily to protect respiratory lamellae, and sometimes have a secondary role...Liston, Jeff
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Kastell Inveresk: Leibwächter, geköpfte Tote und Mysterienkulte in Britannien
Am nordwestlichen Rand des Römischen Reiches werfen aktuelle Ausgrabungen ein neues Licht auf das Leben an der Grenze. Das Kastell von Inveresk befindet sich zehn Kilometer östlich von Edinburgh, an der südlichen Seite des Firth of Forth, einer großen Bucht an Schottlands Ostküste. Der Antoninuswall, die römische Grenzlinie in Nordbritannien,...Hunter, Fraser
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The Beaker People Project: an interim report on the progress of the isotopic analysis of the organic skeletal material
This paper is intended as an interim update for the Beaker People Project. The project aims to investigate mobility, diet, environment, and subsistence for the Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age population of Britain using a number of research tools, but particularly isotopic analysis of bones and teeth. This...Jay, Mandy ; Parker Pearson, Mike ; Richards, Mike ; Nehlich, Olaf ; Montgomery, Janet …
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The Language of Objects: Material Culture in Medieval Scotland
The material culture and archaeology of medieval Scotland are familiar from both archaeological excavation and museum collections, although that familiarity has often proved an impediment to a fuller understanding. Those objects commonly collected and curated by museums are typically of a particular quality, and this concentration on high-status objects can...Campbell, Stuart
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A Rumsfeld Reality Check: what we know, what we don't know and what we don't know about the Chalcolithic in Britain and Ireland
Should we create a specific label for the period between the 25th century BC, when metal-using and other novelties first appeared in Britain and Ireland, and the 22nd century, when bronze first started to be used here? And if so, should it be called the Chalcolithic? To address these questions...Sheridan, J A
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Is there a Scottish Chalcolithic?
This brief contribution discussed the concept of a Scottish Chalcolithic in terms of the available evidence from metalwork and early Beaker graves. It is argued that a Chalcolithic phase can be demonstrated to have existed in Scotland; it is characterised as/subsumed within an 'Early Beaker' identity.Shepherd, Ian
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Hugh Miller (1802-1856): the loss of his papers.
Michael Taylor and Lyall Anderson have been considering the fate of Hugh Miller’s manuscripts as part of a wider study of his collections.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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A man changed by Darwin
In a short autobiographical sketch, Robert Munro divided his life into three phases: in his youth there was a struggle for education, his prime was devoted to public duty as a medical practitioner in the west of Scotland and, finally, early retirement led to an extraordinary new career spurred on...Clarke, David V
crannogs, Munro, and lake dwellings
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Hugh Miller (1802-1856): the catalogue of his fossil collection
Michael Taylor) and Lyall Anderson write: we have observed that one of the specimen numbering systems applied to Miller’s fossil collection was started while the collection was still in family hands – though we are not certain whether this was before his death.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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Hugh Miller (1802-1856): ephemera and museum visit reports sought
Michael Taylor and Lyall Anderson are writing an account of the dispersal, curation, and display of the collections of Hugh Miller.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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Development sites and early stages of eleven species of Clusiidae (Diptera) occurring in Europe
Two hundred and ninety-six rearing records of 11 clusiid species (Diptera, Clusiidae) were obtained from 8 tree species in England, Finland, France, Norway, Russia and Scotland, mainly during the period 1994 to 2004. Larvae and puparia were found between annual layers of whitewood (sapwood and heartwood) of wet, decay-softened, dead...Rotheray, Graham E ; Horsfield, David
locomotion, puparium, host tree, morphology, Druid fly, pseudocephalon, larva, trophic structures, respiration, rearing, and head skeleton
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Hidden in taxonomy: Batesian mimicry by a syrphid fly towards a Patagonian bumblebee
1.Batesian mimicry has been repeatedly reported in syrphid flies (Diptera: Syrphidae), with noxious Hymenoptera identified as the models, including bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Despite the number of detailed studies of bumblebee mimics from the Holarctic, only minimal biological and ecological information is available for the same phenomenon in most other biogeographical...Polidori, C ; Nieves-Aldrey, J L ; Gilbert, Francis ; Rotheray, Graham E
Chile, morphology, Bombus, mimicry, foraging behaviour, and Aneriophora
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Early Neolithic Habitation Structures in Britain and Ireland: a Matter of Circumstance and Context
While our understanding of the nature of Early Neolithic settlement in Britain and Ireland is advancing through recent discoveries and improvements in dating, many questions remain, not least that of why there seems to have been a fairly brief period, during the opening centuries of the fourth millennium bc, when...Sheridan, J A
Britain , Large houses , Habitation structures , Ireland, and Neolithic