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An Updated Hoverfly Checklist (Diptera: Syriphidae) of the Mascarene Island of Réunion, France
A commented and updated checklist of the hoverflies from the Mascarene island of Réunion, France, is presented. A total of 22 species are listed. New data on eight species are provided, two of them new to Réunion: Syritta austeni Bezzi, 1915 and Eristalinus madagascariensis (Hervé-Bazin, 1914). Réunion has 14 species...Marcos-Garcia, M-Angeles ; Ricarte-Sabater, Antonio ; Estella, Neus
Mascarene Islands, Syrphid fauna, Afrotropical region, and first records
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A Contribution to Knowledge of the Biodiversity of Syrphidae (Diptera) in Spain
Data are provided on two hoverfly species new to the Iberian Peninsula, Brachyopa grunewaldensis Kassebeer and Criorhina floccosa (Meigen), and one new to Spain, Eumerus consimilis Šimić & Vujić. New habitat and breeding data are presented. -
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A long-snouted protorosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern China
A new protorosaur is described on the basis of a single specimen from the Ladinian of southern China. Although it has been greatly crushed, it still preserves clear details of the skull and axial skeleton. It possesses a neck that is longer than the trunk and is similar to tanystropheids...Fraser, Nicholas C ; Rieppel, Olivier ; Chun, Li
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Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints
The popular form of traditional theatre in Japan, known as kabuki, combines drama, music and dance and is presented on spectacular stage settings in lavish costumes. In 19th-century Japan people eagerly acquired pictures of their favourite actor in the latest play. These woodblock prints were a cheap and colourful medium...Buckland, Rosina
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A Triassic seed with an angiosperm-like wind dispersal mechanism
The earliest record of a seed with a pappus-like, parachute seed dispersal mechanism, Edenia villisperma gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Triassic of the eastern United States. The seed is small and roughly triangular. Clusters of long hairs emerge from a whorl of at least five circular...Axsmith, Brian J ; Fraser, Nicholas C ; Corso, Taryn
Newark Supergroup, seed, wind dispersal, angiosperm, and Triassic
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Species identification of archaeological marine mammals using collagen fingerprinting
Throughout human history, coastal and marine resources have been a vital part of human subsistence. As a result archaeological faunal assemblages from coastal sites often contain large quantities of skeletal remains indicative of human interaction with marine mammals. However, these are often hard to identify due to a unique combination...Buckley, M ; Fraser, S ; Herman, Jeremy S ; Melton, N D ; Mulville, J …
Proteomics, Cetaceans, Marine mammals, Pinnipeds, Archaeological collagen, ZooMS, and Species identification
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‘The hero with a thousand faces’: the literary legacy of Lord Cochrane
The extraordinary naval career of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, has generated a corpus of historical biography. However, as several of his biographers have noted, a succession of novelists have also been inspired to adapt his exploits into works of popular fiction. The works of Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester...Allan, Stuart
Frederick Marryat, monomyth, C.S. Forester, Pablo Neruda, Patrick O'Brian, Cochrane, and adventure fiction
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Palerasnitsynus gen. n. (Trichoptera: Psychomyiidae) from Burmese amber
Palerasnitsynus ohlhoffi gen. et sp. n. is described from Burmese amber of late Albian (Lower Cretaceous) age. This is the first record of the family Psychomyiidae from Burmese amber, and the earliest fossil record of the family. The genus Palerasnitsynus gen. n. differs from all other known psychomyiid genera by...Wichard, Wilfried ; Ross, Emma ; Ross, Andrew
Fossil Trichoptera, fossil insects, fossil taxonomy, palaeoenvironment, and aquatic insects
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Amazing Amber: the challenges of creating an exhibition on amber and possible solutions
Ross, Andrew ; Sheridan, J A
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Fossil Arachnids - book review
Review of Fossil Arachnids. Jason A. Dunlop and David Penney. 2012. Siri Scientific Press. Monographic Series, Volume 2. 192pp. £60.00. ISBN 9780956779540.Ross, Andrew
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Book chapter
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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BOLTONOCOSTIDAE nom. nov. (Insecta: Hypoperlida), a replacement name for ORTHOCOSTIDAE Bolton, 1912
The purpose of this note, under Article 39, is to propose the replacement name BOLTONOCOSTIDAE for the invalid name ORTHOCOSTIDAE Bolton, 1912, a monotypic family of fossil insects (Insecta, Hypoperlida) of Carboniferous age.Ross, Andrew ; Nicholson, D.B ; Jarzembowski, E A
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The new Palaeobiology Store at National Museums Scotland
Ross, Andrew
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Conference paper (published)
Assessment of materials used for anoxic micro-environments
Carrió, Vicen ; Stevenson, Suzie
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Tartan: the highland habit
The story of tartan is told from the medieval love of display to the Victorian invention of exclusive clan identity. Along the journey, the history of the Highlands and its society is brought vividly to life. In the third edition of this classic and best-selling book there are: • 16...Cheape, Hugh
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A stone head from Port Appin, Argyll
Cowie, Trevor
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White walls, white nights, white girls: whiteness and the artistic interior, 1850-1890
Although in recent years some academic work has been undertaken about the use of colour, particularly blue, green and yellow, in Arts and Crafts and Aestheticism, little attention has been paid to the significance of the use of white in art, design and literature. Using as its starting point the...Huxtable, Sally-Anne
Victorian, Arts and Crafts, Colour, Aesthetic Movement, E. W. Godwin, and William Morris
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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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Radiocarbon dating results from the Beakers and Bodies Project
The Beakers and Bodies Project is a two-year project based in Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It is assessing the beaker-related evidence from North-East Scotland (between the Moray Firth and the Firth of Tay), including the dating and stable isotope analyses of some 40 human...Curtis, Neil ; Wilkin, Neil ; Hutchison, Meg ; Jay, Mandy ; Sheridan, J A …
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The worldwide textile trade
Review of the exhibition ‘Interwoven Globe’ at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Mulherron, Jamie
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Baroque Furniture in the Boulle Technique – Conservation, Science, History
In May 2011 the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum was home to an ambitious interdisciplinary conference focusing on the production, conservation and contextualisation of furniture in the Boulle technique. Featuring contributions from international authorities this beautifully and richly illustrated volume relays the content of the presentations given and discussions had in the course...King, Rachel ; Hacke, Ute ; Eikelmann, Renate
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Radiocarbon dates arranged through National Museums Scotland Archaeology Department during 2007/8
The main thrust of NMS Archaeology Department's radiocarbon dating activities this year was on Scottish Bronze Age monuments, with Historic Scotland kindly funding a series of dates for funerary (and other) monuments in mid-Argyll and Morvern, with a special focus on kerb cairns, and NMS funding dates for monuments elsewhere...Sheridan, J A
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When the potters make the story...
Salanova, Laure ; 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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A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, western Texas
The Post Quarry, within the lower part of the type section of the Upper Triassic Cooper Canyon Formation in southern Garza County, western Texas, contains a remarkably diverse vertebrate assemblage. The Post Quarry has produced: the small temnospondyl Rileymillerus cosgriffi; the metoposaurid Apachesaurus gregorii; possible dicynodonts and eucynodonts; a clevosaurid... -
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Comments on the proposed conservation of the specific name of Anathyris monstrum Khalfin, 1933 (currently Anathyrella monstrum; Brachiopoda, Athyridida)(Case 3632) 4
Alvarez & Modzalevskaya presented a detailed and thorough application, in which they clarified the issues arising from Khalfin’s original works (BZN 70: 185–189; Khalfin, 1933a, 1933b, 1946) and proposed clear resolutions.Candela, Yves
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A new species of Macrocnemus from the Middle Triassic of the eastern Swiss Alps
A new species of Macrocnemus is described on the basis of two incomplete specimens from the Lower Ladinian Prosanto Formation of southeastern Switzerland. The new form can be distinguished by its gracile limb elements and having a noticeably longer tibia than either Macrocnemus bassanii or Macrocnemus fuyuanensis.Fraser, Nicholas C ; Furrer, Heinz
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Design, clothing and personal adornment
Sheridan, J A
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Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) larvae in Fennoscandia with description of Cotesia autumnatae Shaw, sp. n.
The microgastrine subset of hymenopteran parasitoids of the geometrid Epirrita autumnata is investigated in Fennoscandia. Ecology, including population dynamics, of the moth has been intensively studied in northern and mountainous Finland, Norway and Sweden. Recently supported hypotheses about the causes of its cyclic population dynamics stress the role of parasitoids,...Ruohomäki,, K ; Klemola, T ; Shaw, Mark R ; Snäll, N ; Sääksjärvi, I E …
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Biodegradation of ivory (natural apatite): possible involvement of fungal activity in biodeterioration of the Lewis Chessmen
Fungal biodeterioration of ivory was investigated with in vitro inoculation of samples obtained from boar and walrus tusks with the fungi Aspergillus niger and Serpula himantioides, species of known geoactive abilities. A combination of light and scanning electron microscopy together with associated analytical techniques was used to characterize fungal interactions...Pinzari, Flavia ; Tate, Jim ; Bicchieri, Marina ; Rhee, Young Joon ; Gadd, Geoffrey Michael
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Western Palaearctic Meteorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the National Museums of Scotland, with rearing, phenological and distributional data, including six species new to Britain, and a discussion of a potential route to speciation.
Distributional, phenological and in many cases rearing data are given for 44 species of western Palaearctic Meteorinae in the genera Meteorus and Zele, from the nearly 2,500 specimens of the group present in the collection of the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. Six species are newly recorded from Britain. Patterns...Stigenberg, Julia ; Shaw, Mark R
British Isles., hosts, Meteorus, host range, Lepidoptera, parasitoids, distribution, Meteorinae, phenology, Zele, Coleoptera, Braconidae, and speciation
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Commissioning art: objects, ethnography and contemporary collecting
Paper originating from MEG Conference 2002: Power and Collecting, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.Knowles, Chantal
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Book chapter
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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Scotland's land girls: breeches, bombers and backaches.
The roots of the Women’s Land Army lie in the First World War. There was an acute farm labour shortage because workers were needed for military service and horses were commandeered by the forces. By 1918 there were 23,000 Land Girls at work milking, ploughing and herding. In 1939, the... -
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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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Book chapter
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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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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Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the NE Atlantic archipelagos
The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago, finally reached the northwestern extremes of Europe by the fourth millennium BC or shortly thereafter. Various models have been invoked to explain the Neolithization of northern Europe; however, resolving these different scenarios has proved...Cramp, Lucy J E ; Jones, Jennifer ; Sheridan, J A ; Smyth, Jessica ; Whelton, Helen …
stable carbon isotopes, lipids, Neolithic diet, pottery, biomarkers, and archaeology
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Radiocarbon dating results from the Beaker People Project: Scottish samples.
The Beaker People Project is a major interdisciplinary five-year research programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by one of the authors (Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University). It aims to investigate patterns of diet, mobility and health in British Beaker-associated skeletons (and in contemporaneous non-Beaker...Sheridan, J A ; Parker Pearson, Mike ; Jay, Mandy ; Richards, Mike ; Curtis, Neil
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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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Odyssey of an Amethyst Geode
Carrió, Vicen ; Stevenson, Suzie
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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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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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The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU)
The purpose of this note is to alert readers to the fact that some AMS dates determined by ORAU on Scottish material between 2000 and 2002 have had to be deleted and re-determined, because of a problem in the ultrafiltration system used to pretreat bone samples during that period (see...Sheridan, J A ; Higham, Tom
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Middle Neolithic pottery
Cowie, Trevor
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Book chapter
Shale and cannel coal
Hunter, Fraser
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Characterization of archaeological and in situ Scottish window glass
Scottish window glass from both archaeological sites and historic buildings was examined using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and scanning electron microscopy – energy-dispersive X-ray micro-analysis (SEM–EDX). The elemental composition of the glass provides information regarding the materials used and, subsequently, an approximate range of dates of manufacture. pXRF is shown...Kennedy, Craig J ; Murdoch, K. R. ; Kirk, S
X-ray fluorescence, Scanning electron microscopy, Glass, and Energy-dispersive X-ray analysis
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Coral bead
Hunter, Fraser
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Recycled Objects: Exhibiting Africa in Scotland.
Those acts of assembling, juxtaposing and exhibiting objects, which constitute the western museum, have themselves been conceptualised as artistic processes which produce the museum as a form of ‘public art’ (Hein, 2006). Such an holistic concept is fundamentally geographical: the place and placement of objects creating new aesthetic and discursive...Swinney, Geoffrey N
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‘A very able man, of somewhat explosive ... opinions’: the Reverend Henry Stuart Fagan (1827-1890), Church of England parson, Headmaster of Bath Grammar School, literary man, and Irish Home Ruler
The Reverend Henry Stuart Fagan (1827-1890), after a fine career at the City of London School and Oxford University, became headmaster of several grammar schools in succession, lastly at Bath Grammar School from 1858 to 1870 where he also held the linked parish of Charlcombe. His tenure was complicated by...Taylor, Michael A
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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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Technical report
Ceramic resource disc: later pottery & porcelain from Ronaldson Wharf Leith
The Leith Ronaldson’s Wharf excavations carried out by the City of Edinburgh Archaeological Servicein 1997. This large urban excavation covered two large areas either side of the medieval main street Sandport Street laid out formally in the 12th century overlying and incorporating the pre burgh fishing settlement and port. The...Haggarty, George
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Letter, on commemorative plaques and Hugh Miller
Taylor, Michael A
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Country Reports. United Kingdom. INHIGEO.
Taylor, Michael A
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To counterfeit such precious stones as you desire: Amber and Amber imitations in Early Modern Europe
The counterfeiting of works of art of the 19th and 20th centuries is a topic with which the art scientific research, but also the features section, criminology, courts, and not least the collector himself intensively involved for years. From art forgers, some of which operate in large-scale networks and be...King, Rachel
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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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Technical report
High Morlaggan ceramic assemblage resource disc
Haggarty, George
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Alteration of soda silicate glasses by organic pollutants in museums: Mechanisms and kinetics
The role of the organic pollutants formic acid, acetic acid and formaldehyde in the alteration of unstable soda silicate glasses is examined through SIMS depth profiling of replica glass aged in polluted and non-polluted atmospheres under ambient conditions. The effect of different controlled atmospheres is compared to the polluted atmosphere... -
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A genetic screen of the island races of Wren Troglodytes troglodytes in the North-east Atlantic
Capsule Atlantic Island Wrens are very closely related to mainland European populations. Aims The first genetic screen of the North-east Atlantic island subspecies of (Winter) Wren Troglodytes troglodytes was performed to resolve their relationship to mainland Eurasian and Nearctic populations. Methods The ND2 gene was sequenced from 15 wrens from...Shannon, Thomas J ; McGowan, R Y ; Zonfrillo, Bernie
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An anonymous account of Mary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, England, published in Chamber's Journal in 1857, and its attribution to Frank Buckland (1826-1880), George Roberts (c.1804-1860) and William Buckland (1784-1856)
The authors of an anonymous article on Mary Anning (1799–1847), published in Chambers’s journal in 1857, are identified to allow the article to be fully evaluated for the first time. Payment was made to the natural-history writer Frank Buckland (1826–1880). However, he incorporated much material from the books of his...Taylor, Michael A ; Torrens, H. S.
history of science, history of geology, nineteenth century, historiography., and history of palaeontology
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A shale bead fragment from Area 6
Excavations at the Eton Rowing Course and along the Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton Flood Alleviation Channel revealed extensive evidence for occupation in an evolving landscape of floodplains and gravel terraces set amidst the shifting channels of the Thames. The most significant evidence was a series of early Neolithic midden deposits,...Sheridan, J A
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Post-Neolithic western Europe
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a...Sheridan, J A