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World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization

By Dan Hicks (editor) , Alice Stevenson (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Archaeopress Archaeology
Year
2013
ISBN
1905739583, 9781905739585
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (46824115 bytes)
Pages
583\589
Time added
2024-10-24 13:00:01

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World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 29 newly-commissioned essays written by a specialist team, the volume explores more than 136,000 artefacts from 145 countries, from the Stone Age to the modern period, and from England to Easter Island. Pioneering a new approach in museum studies, this landmark volume is an essential reference work for archaeologists around the world, and a unique introduction to the archaeological collections of one of the world’s most famous museums.Table of Contents1 Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Dan HicksI AFRICA: 2 Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa. Peter Mitchell3 Kenyan Stone Age: the Louis Leakey Collection. Ceri Shipton4 Stone Age North Africa. Nick Barton5 Egypt and Sudan: Mesolithic to Early Dynastic Period. Alice Stevenson6 Egypt and Sudan: Old Kingdom to Late Period. Elizabeth Frood7 Greco-Roman Egypt. Christina Riggs8 Later Holocene Africa. Paul LaneII EUROPE: 9 Palaeolithic Britain. Alison Roberts10 Palaeolithic Continental Europe. Alison Roberts11 Later Prehistoric and Roman Europe. Joshua Pollard and Dan Hicks12 Post-Roman Europe. Eleanor Standley, Dan Hicks and Alice Forward13 Oxfordshire. Matthew Nicholas and Dan Hicks14 Neolithic and Bronze Age Malta and Italy. Simon Stoddart15 The Aegean and Cyprus. Yannis Galanakis and Dan Hicks16 Iron Age and Roman Italy. Zena Kamash, Lucy Shipley, Yannis Galanakis and Stella SkaltsaIII THE AMERICAS: 17 South America. Bill Sillar and Dan Hicks18 Central America. Elizabeth Graham, Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson19 The Caribbean. Dan Hicks and Jago Cooper20 North America. Dan Hicks and Michael PetragliaIV ASIA: 21 Asia and the Middle East. Dan Hicks22 The Levant: Palestine, Israel and Jordan. Bill Finlayson23 India and Sri Lanka. Dan Hicks, Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin24 Japan. Alice Stevenson, Fumiko Ohinta and Simon Kaner25 China. Lukas Nickel26 Myanmar and Malaysia. Huw BartonV OCEANIA: 27 Australia and Oceania. Dan Hicks28 New Zealand. Yvonne Marshall29 Easter Island and Pitcairn Island. Dan Hicks, Sue Hamilton, Mike Seager Thomas and Ruth Whitehouse

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