| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 572 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Africa -- Europe -- The Americas -- Asia -- Oceania |
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Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum / Dan Hicks -- AFRICA. -- Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa / Peter Mitchell -- Kenyan Stone Age: the Louis Leakey Collection / Ceri Shipton -- Stone Age North Africa / Nick Barton -- Egypt and Sudan: Mesolithic to Early Dynastic Period / Alice Stevenson -- Egypt and Sudan: Old Kingdom to Late Period / Elizabeth Frood -- Greco-Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs -- Later Holocene Africa / Paul Lane -- EUROPE. -- Palaeolithic Britain / Alison Roberts -- Palaeolithic Continental Europe / Alison Roberts -- Later Prehistoric and Roman Europe / Joshua Pollard and Dan Hicks -- Post-Roman Europe / Eleanor Standley, Dan Hicks and Alice Forward -- Oxfordshire / Matthew Nicholas and Dan Hicks -- Neolithic and Bronze Age Malta and Italy / Simon Stoddart -- The Aegean and Cyprus / Yannis Galanakis and Dan Hicks -- Iron Age and Roman Italy / Zena Kamash, Lucy Shipley, Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa -- THE AMERICAS. -- South America / Bill Sillar and Dan Hicks -- Central America / Elizabeth Graham, Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson -- The Caribbean / Dan Hicks and Jago Cooper --North America / Dan Hicks and Michael Petraglia -- ASIA. -- Asia and the Middle East / Dan Hicks -- The Levant: Palestine, Israel and Jordan / Bill Finlayson -- India and Sri Lanka / Dan Hicks, Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin -- Japan / Alice Stevenson, Fumiko Ohinta and Simon Kaner -- China / Lukas Nickel -- Myanmar and Malaysia / Huw Barton -- OCEANIA. -- Australia and Oceania / Dan Hicks -- New Zealand / Yvonne Marshall -- Easter Island and Pitcairn Island / Dan Hicks, Sue Hamilton, Mike Seager Thomas and Ruth Whitehouse |
| Summary |
'World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum' 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Archaeological museums and collections -- England.
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Archaeological museums and collections -- England
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Archaeological museums and collections
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hicks, Dan.
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Stevenson, Alice.
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Pitt River Museum
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| ISBN |
9781784910754 |
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1784910759 |
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