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Northern Modernist Jewellery – a museum collecting project
In 2015 National Museums Scotland was awarded an Art Fund New Collecting Award to collect, research and disseminate jewellery designed and created in Britain and the Nordic States between 1945-1978. The project highlighted a legacy of transnational influences and traditions within Northern Europe, particularly shared cultural heritage, the influence of...Rothwell, Sarah
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The Lewis Hoard of Gaming Pieces: a re-examination of their context, meanings, discovery and manufacture
ALMOST 180 YEARS of scholarship on the Lewis chessmen have given us a solid foundation of understanding, primarily based upon their art-historical analysis. Taking a more interdisciplinary approach (combining elements of art history with archaeology and history), this paper focuses on some over-looked themes — primarily the archaeological, gaming and...Caldwell, David H ; Hall, Mark A ; Wilkinson, Caroline M
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Vying with the Vikings
Goldberg, D Martin
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Land-bridge calibration of molecular clocks and the post-glacial colonization of Scandinavia by the Eurasian field vole Microtus agrestis
Phylogeography interprets molecular genetic variation in a spatial and temporal context. Molecular clocks are frequently used to calibrate phylogeographic analyses, however there is mounting evidence that molecular rates decay over the relevant timescales. It is therefore essential that an appropriate rate is determined, consistent with the temporal scale of the...Herman, Jeremy S ; McDevitt, Allan D ; Kawalko, Agato ; Jaarolo, Maarit ; Wójcik, J M …
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Sphenothallus from the Furongian (Cambrian) of Scandanavia
Sphenothallus, a Palaeozoic genus of uncertain affinity, possibly a hydrozoan, is reported from the Furongian (Cambrian) of Scandinavia. This is the only known occurrence of the genus in Cambrian rocks outside of China, western North America and Bohemia, and also the first report of Sphenothallus in the Cambrian–Ordovician of Baltica....Stewart, Sarah E ; Clarkson, Euan Neilson Kerr ; Ahlgren, John ; Ahlgren, Per ; Schoenemann, Brigitte
Sweden, Furongian, Sphenothallus, Cambrian, Alum Shale Formation, and Västergötland
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New Collecting Awards: modernist jewellery
Earlier this year Sarah Rothwell won funding from the New Collecting Awards to develop a collection of modernist jewellery at National Museums Scotland. Here, she writes about her research so far.Rothwell, Sarah
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Between the Balkans and the Baltic: Phylogeography of a common vole Mitochondrial DNA lineage limited to Central Europe
The common vole (Microtus arvalis) has been a model species of small mammal for studying end-glacial colonization history. In the present study we expanded the sampling from central and eastern Europe, analyzing contemporary genetic structure to identify the role of a potential ‘northern glacial refugium’, i.e. a refugium at a...Stojak, Joanna ; McDevitt, Allan D ; Herman, Jeremy S ; Kryštufek, Boris ; Uhlíková, Jitka …
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The Swedish species of Cidaphus (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Mesochorinae), a new genus and three new species for Sweden
The ichneumonid genus Cidaphus Förster, 1869, and its three known European species Cidapus areolatus (Boie, 1850), C. alarius (Gravenhorst, 1829) and C. atricillus (Haliday, 1839) are reported as new to Sweden based primarily on specimens collected in light traps during projects monitoring nocturnal moths. The available material indicates that C....Ryrholm, Nils ; Johansson, Niklas ; Shaw, Mark R
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Q&A with Martin Goldberg [Galloway Hoard]
National Museums Scotland on the Galloway Hoard acquisition. Martin Goldberg is the Principal Curator, Medieval Archaeology and History, at National Museums Scotland. Last week National Museums Scotland achieved its fundraising target of £1.98m to acquire the Galloway Hoard of Viking-age treasures. This included £1m from the National Heritage Memorial Fund,...Stephen, Simon
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Uncovering the Galloway Viking Hoard, layer by layer
Hold on to your Viking helmet; you’re about to dig, layer by layer, into one of the most extraordinary Viking hoards ever found on the British Isles – the Galloway Hoard – with Dr Martin Goldberg, Senior Curator at National Museums ScotlandGoldberg, D Martin
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Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in Norwegian waters 2000 years ago
The modern distribution of the grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) is restricted to the North Pacific Ocean, but during the Holocene it occurred also in the North Atlantic Ocean, perhaps as recently as the 17th century. In the western Atlantic, subfossil bones of 12 specimens of grey whale have previously been...Hufthammer, Anne Karin ; Arntsen, Lena ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; Buckley, M
Ancient proteins, Marine mammal bone identification, and Species identification by collagen fingerprinting
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When ivory came from the seas. On some traits of the trade of raw and carved sea-mammal ivories in the Middle Ages
Even if it played a part, it is not so much the lesser availability of elephant ivory as the Norse expansion in the Northern Atlantic that brought the success of walrus ivory throughout Western Europe and far beyond. The strength of demand did not only bring the extinction of the...Dectot, Xavier
trade, walrus, Middle Ages, Iceland, narwhal, Ivory, Greenland, unicorn, and khutū
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Iconic jewellery in space. Research on Modernist Nordic jewellery
Sarah Rothwell Curator of Modern & Contemporary Design, at the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh has a special interest in Modernist Nordic jewellery, among other things. Her research included looking into the necklace and bracelet worn by Princess Leia in the 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope,...Rothwell, Sarah
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Ecology and Genetic Structure of the Parasitoid Phobocampe confusa (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in Relation to Its Hosts, Aglais Species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
The biology of parasitoids in natural ecosystems remain very poorly studied, though they are key species for their functioning. Here we focused on Phobocampe confusa, a Nymphalini specialist, responsible for high mortality rates in charismatic butterfly species in Europe (genus Aglais). We studied its ecology and genetic structure in connection...Audusseau , Hélène ; Baudrin, Gaspard ; Shaw, Mark R ; Keehnen, Naomi L P ; Schmucki, Reto …
A. io, andscape heterogeneity, A. urticae , phenology, and genetic variation
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The first records of the pictured-winged fly Homalocephala bimaculata (Wahlberg, 1838) (Diptera, Ulidiidae) from Norway
The picture-winged fly Homalocephala bimaculata (Wahlberg, 1838) is reported from Norway for the first time bringing to five the number of species of Homalocephala Zetterstedt, 1838 reported from the country. H. bimaculata is recorded from Hvaler, Viken, and Oslo, Oslo, and, based on numerous and scattered records, the species is...Gustad, Jørn R ; Græsdal, Arve G ; MacGowan, Iain
Homalocephala bimaculata, distribution, Ulidiidae, Norway, first record, Diptera, and biology
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Earomyia lonchaeoides (Zetterstedt, 1848) (Diptera, Lonchaeidae) a species and genus new to the Norwegian fauna
Gustad, J.R. & MacGowan, I. 2020. Earomyia lonchaeoides (Zetterstedt, 1848) (Diptera, Lonchaeidae) a species and genus new to the Norwegian fauna. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 67, 132–135. The lance fly Earomyia lonchaeoides (Zetterstedt, 1848) is reported from Norway representing the first time that not only this species but also this...Gustad, Jørn R ; MacGowan, Iain
biology, Lonchaeidae, Diptera, distribution, Earomyia lonchaeoides, first record, and Norway