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Stories from black bangles: jewellery and other finds of jet-like materials in Roman Scotland
Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate...Hunter, Fraser
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Iron
Sections: 10.7.1 Introduction; 10.7.2 Discussion; 10.7.3 Catalogue. The 1970s excavations at Broxmouth represent one of the most comprehensive examinations of any Iron Age hillfort. It was also the place where a whole generation of Scottish archaeologists learned their trade. Like many projects of its time, however, Broxmouth remained unpublished, other...Hunter, Fraser
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Coral bead
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Middle Neolithic pottery
Cowie, Trevor
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Shale and cannel coal
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Worked bone and antler
Sections: 10.3.1 Introduction; 10.3.2 Sources of raw materials; 10.3.3 Working evidence; 10.3.4 Production technology and its development; 10.3.5 Object range (Tools, Ornaments, Weaponry, Fixtures and Fittings, Object Lives); 10.3.6 Decoration; 10.3.7 The assemblage in context; 10.3.8 Catalogue.Hunter, Fraser
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Materials and materiality
Sections: 10.1.1 Introdution; 10.1.2 Preservation and recovery; 10.1.3 Phasing and chronology; 10.1.4 Biographies of materials (Crops, consumption and craft at Broxmouth and beyond; Re-use and recycling; Identities and social relationships beyond Broxmouth); 10.1.5 The materiality of Broxmouth.Maxwell, Mhairi
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Introducing Mesolithic Scotland: the background to a developing field of study
The development of Mesolithic studies in Scotland is reviewed and set in context, Lacaille's Stone Age in Scotland, published in 1954, can be seen to mark the culmination of the first phase of Mesolithic research. Subsequent changing perceptions and the recent intensification of fieldwork are discussed, with a footnote on...Saville, Alan
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The project
Around AD 800, a superbly carved cross-slab was erected at Hilton of Cadboll in north-east Scotland. The major part of the stone stand now in the National Museum of Scotland, and the story of what happened to it in the intervening centuries is told here.Clarke, David V ; Foster, Sally M
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Special places for special axes? Early Bronze Age metalwork from Scotland in its landscape setting
This volume represents the publication of a highly successful conference held in 2003 to celebrate the contribution to Neolithic and Early Bronze Age studies of one of archaeology's finest synthesisers, Professor Stuart Piggott.Cowie, Trevor
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The construction of narratives for Neolithic Scotland
This volume represents the publication of a highly successful conference held in 2003 to celebrate the contribution to Neolithic and Early Bronze Age studies of one of archaeology's finest synthesisers, Professor Stuart Piggott.Clarke, David V
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Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Upper Triassic Solite Quarry, North Carolina and Virginia
This volume includes 10 field guides that explore the diverse geology of the southern and central Appalachians. These guides examine both ancient rocks and modern landscape processes, highlighting new research ideas regarding these old terranes. Three guides focus on the geology of the Appalachian Plateau and Valley and Ridge, considering...Liutkus-Pierce, Cynthia M ; Fraser, Nicholas C ; Heckert, Andrew B
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The material culture of Mesolithic Scotland
The fundamental elements of material culture - essentially stone, bone and antler tools - surviving from the Mesolithic period in Scotland are described and discussed in terms of significance and chronologySaville, Alan
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United Kingdom: Archaeological Museums
The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology provides a comprehensive and systematic coverage of archaeology that is unprecedented, not only in terms of the use of multi-media, but also in terms of content. It encompasses the breadth of the subject along with key aspects that are tapped from other disciplines. It includes...Sheridan, J A
Conservation, Bioarchaeology, Classical Studies, Antiquities, and Paleoanthropology
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Gold in ancient Scotland
The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow are holding an exhibition "Scottish Gold" (14.3.14 - 15.6.14)and also publishing a book of the same name to accompany the exhibition. This book is the first comprehensive look at the use of gold in Scotland from prehistoric times to the present day. It...Clark, Neil D L ; Sheridan, J A
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Biodiversity, biogeography and phylogeography of Ordovician rhynchonelliform brachiopods
The phylogeographical evolution and the consequent changing distribution and diversity of rhynchonelliform brachiopods through the Ordovician are linked to the dynamic palaeogeography of the period. The Early Ordovician (Tremadocian and Floian) is characterized by globally low-diversity faunas with local biodiversity epicentres, notably on the South China Palaeoplate; low-latitude porambonitoid-dominated faunas...Harper, David A T ; Rasmussen, Christian M Ø ; Liljeroth, Maria ; Blodgett, Robert B ; Candela, Yves …
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Design, clothing and personal adornment
Sheridan, J A
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Whistler’s Peacock Room and the artist as Magus
This paper is a reassessment of the much-discussed topic of Whistler’s aestheticist interior Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room. Drawing upon Whistler’s correspondence, papers, lectures and writings—including his 1885 Ten O’Clock Lecture and his subsequent dialogue with Oscar Wilde about the nature and function of art, which was...Huxtable, Sally-Anne
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'Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself': The Dukes of Hamilton and Titian
This volume comprises sixteen essays on the reception of Titian by British painters, collectors and critics in the long nineteenth century. The main focus falls on the first three decades of the century, in the aftermath of the exhibition of the celebrated Orléans collection in London in 1798-99. But the...Evans, Godfrey
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Artifacts in waiting: altered agency of Museum objects
Reassembling the Collection presents innovative approaches to the study of historical and contemporary engagements between museums and the various individuals and communities who were (and are) involved in their production and consumption. Reassembling the Collection is interdisciplinary in scope and international in coverage. It addresses fundamental questions about the nature,...Knowles, Chantal
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Large cats
Based on the acclaimed print series, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., this new supplement covers extinct life. Written for students and general researchers, this supplement explores all aspects of extinctions and extinct life. Approximately 80 articles outline major extinctions and related scientific areas. - Extract from publisher's websiteKitchener, Andrew C
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Tara Boy: local hero or international man of mystery?
Although building on earlier research, this volume is not intended to be a definitive door-closing statement on the archaeology of Tara. There are many gaps between the themes, and others may be inspired to address those gaps or build on the work contained here. The shafts of light in the...Sheridan, J A ; Jay, Mandy ; Montgomery, Janet ; Pellegrini, M ; Cahill Wilson, J
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Changing designs in Arawe, New Britain
The British Museum's collection is pre-eminent among early collections from Melanesia, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific. The extraordinary art styles represented, from groups such as New Guinea, New Ireland and the Solomon Islands and relating to ancestors, family and...Knowles, Chantal
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Interwoven histories and new legacies: working with the Tlicho Nation
Global Ancestors is a collection of papers which reflect on modern museological responses to the often complex and emotive relationship that people have with the ancestors and objects which they created. Set out in three broad themes, the first collection of papers explore how indigenous peoples are represented in museums...Knowles, Chantal
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The Scottish silversmith in the Americas
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...Dalgleish, George
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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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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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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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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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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