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Buying Power: Archaeologists as Dealers in Egypt and Sudan
Exhibitions and displays of Egyptian objects in museums across the world continue to inspire awe and fascination for millions of visitors. As museums tell the stories of the ancient world, they also tell their own collecting stories of how the objects came to be part of their collections. These narratives...Potter, Daniel
Dealers, Collections, Archaeology, Antiquities, Sudan, John Garstang, Edwin Ward, Charles Trick Currelly, Egypt, and William Matthew Flinders Petrie
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Confronting colonial histories and legacies in Egyptian and Sudanese collections at National Museums Scotland
Maitland, Margaret
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Book
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure
Over five kilograms of silver bullion, many unique and enigmatic gold objects, the rare preservation of textiles and an unusual range of other materials, make the Galloway Hoard the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland. Having lain undiscovered since AD900, it now provides an opportunity...Godldberg, D Martin ; Davies, Mary
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Book chapter
Working Stone, Making Communities – Technology and Identity in Prehistoric Orkney
Working Stone, Making Communities took as its focus the prehistoric and ethnographic stone tool of Orkney. The basic aim was to determine, as comprehensively as possible, the history and composition of relevant asspemblages from across the region. We were also commited to communicating the results of our work to profrssional/specialist...Anderson-Whymark, Hugo
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Journal article
Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard: Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland
Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland's earliest-known Viking Age hoars. In the years since its discovery in 2014, wide-ranging research has illuminated its eclectic and often unique contents. As a new exhibition opens, exploring the story so far, Martin Goldberg takes us through some of...Goldberg, D Martin
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Journal article
Conservation treatment of recently discovered bog bodies at the National Museum of Ireland
Bog bodies contain a wealth of information and when treated with respect and sensitivity present an opportunity for scholars and the public to come ‘face to face’ with our past. Eight bog bodies have been discovered in Ireland in the past 20 years and the conservation of three of these...Read, Anthony ; Bryan, Bethan
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Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure
Dr Martin Goldberg, Principal Cuartor, Medieval Archaeology and History at National Musuems Scotland, invites us to take a closer look at a hoard of Viking-age treasures hideen for a millenniumGoldberg, D Martin
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Gunflints in Brandon: no flash in the pan
An onscure industry was once critical to British power, but collapsed after Waterloo, leaving families oiut of work and men dying of silicosis. Hugo Anderson-Whymark has been researching the extraordinary story of a craft that grew rich on guns and survived on a myth of antiquity.Anderson-Whymark, Hugo
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Review of: Martin Carver, Formative Britain: An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD (2019)
There are few archaeologists working in Britain today who have directed major excavations in as many corners of the island than Prof Martin Carver. His latest volume is the result of a different kind of dig: an excavation of the literature on early medieval archaeology in Britain, notes gathered from...Maldonado, Adrián
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Questioning the Votadini
Goldberg, D Martin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Making sense of Scottish Neolithic pottery
Sheridan, J A
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Conference paper (unpublished)
'In Search of Our Ancestors': the Mary Boyle Story
Saville, Alan
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Conference paper (unpublished)
'Jet’ manufacturing site at Portpatrick
Hunter, Fraser
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Book chapter
Scottish food vessel chronology revisited
Sheridan, J A
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Journal article
Everything you always wanted to know about…la néolithisation de la Grande-Bretagne et de l'Irlande
In Great Britain and in Ireland, two conflicting models of neolithisation have been proposed. One, that is based on the assumption that indigenous late Mesolithic groups were in contact with Continental farmers (as in the case of the Ertebølle culture in Denmark), proposes a slow acculturation process; but there is...Pailler, Yves ; Sheridan, J A
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Conference paper (published)
Coles's Covesea phase revisited: networks of contact in the Late Bronze Age of North-East Scotland
Cowie, Trevor
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Conference paper (published)
Excavation and publication: some further comments
Clarke, David V
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Book chapter
An overview of the Bronze Age in Moray
Cowie, Trevor
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Journal article
Before Burghead: excavations at Clarkly Hill 2011
Hunter, Fraser
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Book
Vessels for the ancestors: essays on the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall
In this volume a group of distinguished prehistorians present the latest work on the Neolithic of the north and west of Britain and Ireland, areas with some of the most impressive monuments and material culture in north-west Europe. The contents are presented in four sections: funerary studies; megalithic art; artefact... -
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From sickles to circles: Britain and Ireland at the time of Stonehenge
From Sickles to Circles marks the retirement of Professor Derek Simpson from his Chair at Queen's University of Belfast and brings together both renowned scholars in the field of British prehistoric archaeology and students. The dedication written by Alex Gibson is followed by twenty-two essays that address a variety of... -
Conference paper (published)
The image of a Celtic society: medieval West Highland sculpture
Caldwell, David H ; McGibbon, F M ; Miller, S ; Ruckley, N A
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Book chapter
Design-Archaeology: bringing a Pictish inspired drinking horn fitting to life
The Glenmorangie Early Medieval Research Project re-created objects from the period c.300-900AD in collaboration with artists,designers and makers. Contemporary skills and traditional craftswere used, informed directly from the archaeological evidence. This process of re-creation has brought these objects to life again, giving us insights into how they were made, experienced...Maxwell, Mhairi ; Goldberg, D Martin ; Gray, Jennifer
re-creation, design-archaeology, Authenticity, and Pictish-problem solving