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Summary Catalogue Of The Continental Archaeological Collections In The Ashmolean Museum
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Book Synopsis A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections [in Ashmolean Museum Oxford] by : Ashmolean Museum
Download or read book A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections [in Ashmolean Museum Oxford] written by Ashmolean Museum and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections written by Arthur MacGregor and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos with descriptions and dimensions of the Migration period and Viking material in the Ashmolean.
Book Synopsis Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections in the Ashmolean Museum by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections in the Ashmolean Museum written by Arthur MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This summary catalogue is a comprehensive guide to The Ashmolean's archaeological collection. The inventory includes works from the Roman Iron Age, Migration Period, and Early Medieval eras. The introduction of the Collection examines the foundation and
Book Synopsis Collecting Cultures by : Sally K. May
Download or read book Collecting Cultures written by Sally K. May and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Cultures investigates colonial museum collecting practices in indigenous communities based upon the case of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land.
Book Synopsis Bronze Age Barrow and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Archaeological Excavations on Land Adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton Suffolk by : Chris Chinnock
Download or read book Bronze Age Barrow and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Archaeological Excavations on Land Adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton Suffolk written by Chris Chinnock and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological investigations by MOLA on land adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton (2013-2014), revealed the remains of a prehistoric round barrow and a cemetery containing the remains of 67 inhumations with associated grave goods. This book provides detailed analysis of the archaeological features, skeletal assemblage and other artefacts.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum by : Josef Mario Briffa SJ
Download or read book Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum written by Josef Mario Briffa SJ and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient finds from the Maltese islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods.
Book Synopsis Deaccessioning and Its Discontents by : Martin Gammon
Download or read book Deaccessioning and Its Discontents written by Martin Gammon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a series of deaccession events in Britain and the United States that range from the disastrous to the beneficial, and proposes a typology of principles to guide future deaccessions. Gammon describes the liquidation of the British Royal Collections after Charles I's execution—when masterworks were used as barter to pay the king's unpaid bills—as establishing a precedent for future deaccessions. He recounts, among other episodes, U.S. Civil War veterans who tried to reclaim their severed limbs from museum displays; the 1972 “Hoving affair,” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a number of works to pay for a Velázquez portrait; and Brandeis University's decision (later reversed) to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of contemporary art. An appendix provides the first extensive listing of notable deaccessions since the seventeenth century. Gammon ultimately argues that vibrant museums must evolve, embracing change, loss, and reinvention.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by : Michael Lapidge
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred.
Book Synopsis World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization by : Dan Hicks
Download or read book World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization written by Dan Hicks and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 written by Arthur MacGregor and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcriptions and translations of sixteen manuscript catalogues of a wide range of items held in the Ashmolean Museum between 1683 and 1886. The catalogues include books of benefactors to the Museum, catalogues of curiosities, gems, minerals, shells, fossils, zoological, ethnological and anthropological specimens as well as specimens collected from Cook's second Pacific voyage and curiosities from the Figi or Cannibal Islands. The second volume will publish the recently rediscovered AMS 11 which provides an invaluable record of the Museum's early collections.
Book Synopsis Uncovering the Germanic Past by : Bonnie Effros
Download or read book Uncovering the Germanic Past written by Bonnie Effros and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.
Book Synopsis Ancient West and East by : Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
Download or read book Ancient West and East written by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a bi-annual devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near Eastern and early Byzantine worlds.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World by : Bonnie Effros
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World written by Bonnie Effros and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Conservative revolutionary by : David Hayton
Download or read book Conservative revolutionary written by David Hayton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the most important historian of his day, whose ‘revolutionary’ method was enshrined in the verb to Namierise.
Book Synopsis The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage by : Anna Gannon
Download or read book The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage written by Anna Gannon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 1731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa's second reform of the penny c.792. Outside numismatic circles, this material has largely been ignored because of its complexity, yet artistically this is the most vibrant period of English coinage, with die-cutters showing flair and innovation and employing hundreds of different designs in their work. By analysing the iconography of the early coinage, this book intends to introduce its rich legacy to a wide audience. Anna Gannon divides the designs of the coins into four main categories: busts (including attributes and drapery), human figures, animals and geometrical patterns, presenting prototypes, sources of the repertoire and parallels with contemporary visual arts for each motif. The comparisons demonstrate the central role of coins in the eclectic visual culture of the time, with the advantages of official sanctioning and wide circulation to support and diffuse new ideas and images. The sources of the motifs clarify the relationship between the many designs of the complex Secondary phase (c.710-50). Contemporary literature and theological writings often offer the key to the interpretation of motifs, hinting at a universal preoccupation with religious themes. The richness of designs and display of learning point to a sophisticated patronage with access to exotic prototypes, excellent craftsmanship and wealth; it is likely that minsters, as rich, learned, and well-organized institutions, were behind some of the coinage. After the economic crises of the mid-eighth century this flamboyant iconography was swept away: with the notable exeption of the coins of Offa, still displaying exciting designs of high quality and inventiveness, reformed issues bore royal names and titles, and strove towards uniformity.
Book Synopsis Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins by : David Alban Hinton
Download or read book Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins written by David Alban Hinton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly illustrated book, David Hinton looks at what possessions meant to people at every level of society in Britain in the middle ages, from elaborate gold jewellery to clay pots, and provides a fascinating window into the society of the middle ages. Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins is about things worn and used in Britain throughout the Middle Ages, from the great treasure hoards that mark the end of the Roman Empire to the new expressions of ideas promoted by the Renaissance and Reformation.
Book Synopsis Collectanea Antiqua by : Martin Henig
Download or read book Collectanea Antiqua written by Martin Henig and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together some of the biggest names in British archaeology to pay tribute to Sonia Chadwick Hawkes. The bulk of the essays are, as one might expect on Anglo-Saxon archaeology, culture and society, amny of them on sites in Kent, with a section on antiquarianism and collecting, and a section looking back at the life and career of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes.