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  • History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Archaeology
• • by Lewis Lawyer
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  • California Indians, Pitt Rivers, Miwok, Shasta Culture

The gem is now in Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum but originating in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Farnham, Wiltshire. It is a rare example of a Roman intaglio engraved with the image of a Roman military musician. It was purchased at... more

The gem is now in Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum but originating in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Farnham, Wiltshire. It is a rare example of a Roman intaglio engraved with the image of a Roman military musician. It was purchased at Sinzig in Germany in the late nineteenth century.

• • by Ian J Marshman
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  • Glyptics, Roman Germany, Pitt Rivers

This article introduces issues vital for any discussion of repatriation or restitution of African cultural heritage. It traces the development of a culture of iconoclasm in southern Nigeria beginning in the 1880s and active today. One... more

This article introduces issues vital for any discussion of repatriation or restitution of African cultural heritage. It traces the development of a culture of iconoclasm in southern Nigeria beginning in the 1880s and active today. One practical consequence of the iconoclastic legacy has been a deep resistance to the establishment of museums on a Western model.

• • by Zoë Strother
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  • Iconoclasm, History of Collections, Collecting and Collections, African Art History
• • by Dan Hicks
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  • Anthropology, History of Ideas, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Anthropology
• • by Dan Hicks
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  • Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Museum Studies, Material Culture Studies

Published first in 2007, Tim Malim’s review of Grim’s Ditch and Wansdyke provides a valuable synthesis and exploration of key issues of wider application regarding the relationship between linear earthworks, movement, territoriality and... more

Published first in 2007, Tim Malim’s review of Grim’s Ditch and Wansdyke provides a valuable synthesis and exploration of key issues of wider application regarding the relationship between linear earthworks, movement, territoriality and politics in the later prehistoric and early historic societies in Britain. The author provides a new introduction, while the article has been revised to the format of the Offa’s Dyke Journal by the editors.

• • by Timothy John Power Malim
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  • History, Anglo-Saxon Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology

The ethnographic encounter has, more often than not, yielded the outsider’s perspective. In this volume we gather local and international scholars engaging the ‘field’ and the ‘archive’ to interrogate objects and a few of anthropology’s... more

The ethnographic encounter has, more often than not, yielded the outsider’s perspective. In this volume we gather local and international scholars engaging the ‘field’ and the ‘archive’ to interrogate objects and a few of anthropology’s own ancestors. In this way, fresh insights are gained that enrich our understanding of colonial history, the motivations of its many actors, and what it means for ethnographic collections, contemporary expressions and communities of origin. Invariably, through this exercise we too become entangled in the genealogies of objects, of subjects and of their mediators. As museums in Europe and the United Kingdom open up their collections and seek more meaningful forms of exchange – indeed exploring avenues for the ‘return of culture’ - the theories we have discussed above and found throughout this volume can elucidate these new encounters. This is an important intellectual exercise as certainly unearthing the ghosts of colonialism will yield new responses, and their effects may extend beyond the control of ancestors, of genealogies and anthropological theories. Just as the Maori sagas defined tupana as an ancestor having legendary significance for current life, we hope this volume might encourage new theoretical and empirical avenues that draw on the subject of ancestors and genealogies in the emerging highlands of South and Southeast Asia.

• • by Michael T Heneise and +1
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  • Anthropology, Museum Studies, Material Culture Studies, Identity (Culture)

Between October 2014 and February 2017, the Salisbury Museum ran the Finding Pitt-Rivers project, aimed at re-examining and completely cataloguing the Pitt-Rivers Wessex Collection, held by the museum since 1975. The collection was... more

• • by Cristina Sanna and +1
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  • Archaeology, Numismatics, Coin Hoards, Pitt Rivers

The Finding Pitt-Rivers project has led to the discovery of 64 unpublished coins from the excavations at Woodcutts. The discovery has led to a wider analysis of the numismatic evidence from the region, in particular the apparent economic... more

The Finding Pitt-Rivers project has led to the discovery of 64 unpublished coins from the excavations at Woodcutts. The discovery has led to a wider analysis of the numismatic evidence from the region, in particular the apparent economic decline in the 4th century between Salisbury and Purbeck. The re-analysis highlights a distinct change in coin profiles to the north and south of Bokerley Dyke. The key conclusion is that a weak coin profile should not automatically be viewed as evidence for settlement decline. Instead this profile might suggest a move towards a pastoral economy.

• • by Richard Henry
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  • Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Roman numismatics and archaeology, Roman coins
• • by Dan Hicks
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  • Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Museum Studies
• • by Dan Hicks
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  • Neolithic Archaeology, Iron Age Britain (Archaeology), Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology

As part of my Ph.D. research on use-wear and residues on flaked stone and bottle-glass razors, I examined two obsidian razors from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (U.K.). A razor can be defined as any sharp-edged cutting tool that is... more

As part of my Ph.D. research on use-wear and residues on flaked stone and bottle-glass razors, I examined two obsidian razors from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (U.K.). A razor can be defined as any sharp-edged cutting tool that is generally used on the human body, whether for shaving, hair-cutting, surgery, scarification or tattooing.

• • by Alice Gorman
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  • Obsidian, Pitt Rivers, Body Modification, Lithic Analysis
• • by Vajk Szeverényi
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  • Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Prehistoric weapons, Middle Bronze Age

This volume provides an opportunity to compare and contrast Wansdyke with a range of other linear monuments as defensive structures, territorial boundaries, and barriers to control routeways. The previous paper started with the fact that... more

This volume provides an opportunity to compare and contrast Wansdyke with a range of other linear monuments as defensive structures, territorial boundaries, and barriers to control routeways. The previous paper started with the fact that it was over fifty years since Fox’s seminal
publication on the linear earthworks of the Welsh Marches (Fox 1955), and that it was time for a review of his survey and conclusions in the light of fresh investigation. This paper can start from a similar point, in that it is both fifty years since Aileen Fox’s and Cyril Fox’s survey and study of Wansdyke (Fox and Fox 1959) in which they reviewed
previous fieldwork and presented fresh interpretation, and O.G.S. Crawford’s (1953) publication Archaeology in the Field which included linear earthworks and an appendix devoted to Wansdyke. Since then there have been a number of substantial investigations
of Wansdyke and other linear monuments such as Grim’s Ditch, and thus time is due for a synthesis and reassessment.

• • by Timothy John Power Malim
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  • Anglo-Saxon Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Anglo-Saxon archaeology

I'm looking forward to giving this public lecture and masterclass on Tuesday 1 November in Glasgow. It's for for a newly-formed graduate programme for material culture research titled Collections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for the 21st... more

I'm looking forward to giving this public lecture and masterclass on Tuesday 1
November in Glasgow. It's for for a newly-formed graduate programme for
material culture research titled Collections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for
the 21st Century, which is led by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and
Humanties at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the Hunterian
Museum and the Leverhulme Trust. The lecture is in the Kelvin Hall Lecture
Cinema, and the event is from 5pm to 7pm. You can sign up for the event,
which is free, on the eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stuff-of-research-masterclass-prof-dan-hicks-tickets-28722764562

• • by Dan Hicks
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  • Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Museum learning, Museum Studies

Written in a journalistic format, the book/report covers the first 10 expeditions carried out in the Theban Mountains (Wadi’s el Sikkat, el Taqa. el Zeide, Gabbanat el Qirud & Wadi el Gharby) by Dr John Ward & Dr Maria Nilsson as part of... more

• • by John Ward
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  • History, Psychology, Archaeology, Earth Sciences
• • by Carlotta Gardner
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  • Pitt Rivers
• • by John Ward
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  • Ancient History, Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, The Sirius Project
• • by Dan Hicks
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  • Collections Management, History of Museums, History of Collections, Museum Collection history

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is not well-known for its Egyptology collection, but does in fact have some gems, including the ‘Oxford Bowl’, one of the rare letters to the dead. This lecture will explore General Pitt-Rivers’ own... more

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is not well-known for its Egyptology collection, but does in fact have some gems, including the ‘Oxford Bowl’, one of the rare letters to the dead. This lecture will explore General Pitt-Rivers’ own interest in Egypt , including his pioneering research into palaeolithic flints, the history and development of the Museum’s collection and look in detail at some of the ancient Egyptian objects on display.

• • by Beth Asbury
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  • Pitt Rivers
• • by Carlotta Gardner
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  • Pitt Rivers