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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.

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Author:   Dan Hicks ,  Alice Stevenson
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   1.974kg
ISBN:  

9781905739585

ISBN 10:   1905739583
Pages:   583
Publication Date:   08 March 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Dan Hicks ; I AFRICA: 2 Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa. Peter Mitchell ; 3 Kenyan Stone Age: the Louis Leakey Collection. Ceri Shipton ; 4 Stone Age North Africa. Nick Barton ; 5 Egypt and Sudan: Mesolithic to Early Dynastic Period. Alice Stevenson ; 6 Egypt and Sudan: Old Kingdom to Late Period. Elizabeth Frood ; 7 Greco-Roman Egypt. Christina Riggs ; 8 Later Holocene Africa. Paul Lane ; II EUROPE: 9 Palaeolithic Britain. Alison Roberts ; 10 Palaeolithic Continental Europe. Alison Roberts ; 11 Later Prehistoric and Roman Europe. Joshua Pollard and Dan Hicks ; 12 Post-Roman Europe. Eleanor Standley, Dan Hicks and Alice Forward ; 13 Oxfordshire. Matthew Nicholas and Dan Hicks ; 14 Neolithic and Bronze Age Malta and Italy. Simon Stoddart ; 15 The Aegean and Cyprus. Yannis Galanakis and Dan Hicks ; 16 Iron Age and Roman Italy. Zena Kamash, Lucy Shipley, Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa ; III THE AMERICAS: 17 South America. Bill Sillar and Dan Hicks ; 18 Central America. Elizabeth Graham, Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson ; 19 The Caribbean. Dan Hicks and Jago Cooper ; 20 North America. Dan Hicks and Michael Petraglia ; IV ASIA: 21 Asia and the Middle East. Dan Hicks ; 22 The Levant: Palestine, Israel and Jordan. Bill Finlayson ; 23 India and Sri Lanka. Dan Hicks, Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin ; 24 Japan. Alice Stevenson, Fumiko Ohinta and Simon Kaner ; 25 China. Lukas Nickel ; 26 Myanmar and Malaysia. Huw Barton ; V OCEANIA: 27 Australia and Oceania. Dan Hicks ; 28 New Zealand. Yvonne Marshall ; 29 Easter Island and Pitcairn Island. Dan Hicks, Sue Hamilton, Mike Seager Thomas and Ruth Whitehouse

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