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British Museum (british + museum)
Selected AbstractsDAIDALOS AND IKAROS ON AN APULIAN FRAGMENT NEWLY ACQUIRED BY THE BRITISH MUSEUMBULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2009SUSAN WOODFORD First page of article [source] Prolegomenon to a history of paleoanthropology: The study of human origins as a scientific enterprise.EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 5 2004Part 1. Interest in the history of paleoanthropology and the other disciplines related to human origins studies has grown considerably over the last several decades. Some very informative historical surveys have been written by prominent scientists reflecting on the major developments in their fields. Some well-known early examples include Glyn Daniel's The Idea of Prehistory (1962) and The Origins and Growth of Archaeology (1967), which focus primarily on the history of archaeology, Kenneth Oakley's "The problem of man's antiquity: an historical survey" published in the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) [Geology] (1964), and L. S. B. Leakey's Unveiling Man's Origins; Ten Decades of Thought about Human Evolution (1969), with the latter two focusing on the contributions of geology, paleontology, and biology to the problem of human evolution. [source] Working hard at giving it away: Lord Duveen, the British Museum and the Elgin marblesHISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 198 2004Elisabeth Kehoe In September 1928, just after the publication of the report of the royal commission on National Museums and Galleries, the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen wrote to his good friend Edgar Vincent, Viscount D'Abernon, who had chaired the commission, offering to pay for a new gallery at the British Museum to house the Parthenon, or Elgin, marbles. The new gallery cost over £100,000 and took ten years to complete, during which time Duveen worked hard to impose his vision of a new gallery , a vision often at odds with that of the Museum establishment, and one that generated controversy, including the unauthorized cleaning of the marbles. [source] Sex determination of adolescent skeletons using the distal humerusAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2009Tracy L. Rogers Abstract Accurate determination of the sex of immature skeletal remains is difficult in the absence of DNA, due to the fact that most sexually dimorphic features of the human skeleton develop as secondary sex characteristics during adolescence. Methods of assessment of adult skeletons cannot reliably be applied to adolescent skeletons because of the transitional nature of the skeleton at puberty and the variability of the adolescent growth spurt. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the accuracy of Rogers's method of morphological sex determination using the distal humerus (Rogers: J Forensic Sci 44 (1999) 55,59) to assess the sex of adolescent skeletons. The sample consists of 7 documented adolescent skeletons from the Christ Church Spitalfields collection at the British Museum of Natural History and 35 from the Luis Lopes skeletal collection housed in the National History Museum (Museu Bocage) of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Ages range from 11 to 20 years. The technique achieved an accuracy of 81% on the combined sample of 42. This method can be applied to adolescent skeletons once the trochlea begins fusing to the humeral diaphysis, which occurred by age 11 years in the test samples. Am J Phys Anthropol 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Arabian softstone vessels from Iraq in the British MuseumARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 2 2001JULIAN READE First page of article [source] THE ORIGIN OF BLACK-FIGURE GREEK CERAMICS FOUND IN NAUCRATIS (NILE DELTA)*ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 3 2005G. HARBOTTLE At the site of the Greek trading port of Naucratis, located on the Canopic mouth of the Nile inland from Alexandria, Flinders Petrie and later archaeologists encountered sherds of Classical Greek black-figure pottery. We have characterized the pastes of 14 of these specimens, drawn from the collections of the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, by neutron activation analysis and numerical taxonomy. The ceramics agree in composition with a reference group centred on Athens. We also investigated a small number of additional black-figure sherds from other sites. One specimen, from Ruvo di Puglia (Italy), actually originated in or near Marseilles. There was no evidence for local manufacture of black-figure pottery at Naucratis. [source] ,South Opposed to East and North': Adrian Stokes and Josef Strzygowski.ART HISTORY, Issue 4 2003A study in the aesthetics, historiography of Orientalism The ,South Opposed to East and North' of this paper's title comes from the third section of Adrian Stokes's book The Quattro Cento of 1932 , subtitled A Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance, and the founding work of his aesthetic. The Quattro Cento can be viewed as a response to the need expressed by Strzygowski in his Origin of Christian Church Art of 1923 ,for a work dealing with the penetration of the South by the North of Europe and the subsequent rise of the so-called Renaissance'; a North, in Strzygowski's view, already permeated by influences from the East. Within the contested terrain inscribed in the term, this paper isolates three key ,Orients' crucial to Stokes's Quattro Cento aesthetic: the experiential Orient of his Conrad-inspired voyage to the East; the Orient of the British Museum; and that of the Orientalist texts , primarily the now-marginalized Josef Strzygowski. As a study in the historiography of Orientalism, the essay examines how Adrian Stokes inflected his experience and readings of these Orients to re-evaluate European , specifically Italian Renaissance , culture. [source] | |||||||||||||