BC or not BC? Is that the question?
Since the introduction of prehistory into the school syllabus at KS2, museums have been evaluating and developing the resources they have to assist in the teaching of that subject. This paper focusses on one aspect of that subject; how prehistoric periods are represented in museum galleries. This is based on the speaker’s personal experience as curator at Southampton and the development there of the first full exhibition of the town’s prehistoric collection. The talk will outline the themes that were considered, rejected and chosen, together with the processes of planning and construction that led to the creation of the exhibition that we titled ‘BC’. This will be followed by a review of galleries in other museums, with the aim of revealing any deeper trends in how prehistory is conceived of and presented. The questions to be considered might include the following. What does prehistory mean? How are the themes link museum collections with the school curriculum portrayed and explored? How easy is it, in a gallery, to balance a learning experience with enjoyment of objects and the subject as a whole?
Duncan Brown, Historic England
Speaker biography
Duncan Brown is Head of Archaeological Archives at Historic England and Chair of the Society for Museum Archaeology. He represents HE at the Archaeological Archives Forum and also sits on the CIDOC Archaeology Group. Duncan has also held the positions of President of the Medieval Pottery Research Group, Chair of the CIfA Finds Group, founding Chair of the CIfA Archaeological Archives Group, English representative to the European Archaeological Consilium Working Group for Archaeological Archives and is currently a Council member for the Society of Antiquaries of London. Between 1982 and 2009 Duncan worked for Southampton City Museums, initially as a medieval pottery researcher, then Curator of Archaeology. In 2002 he published the monograph ‘Pottery in Medieval Southampton’ and has also produced many articles and papers on medieval pottery, museum archaeology and archaeological archives. He continues to study post-Roman ceramics and is a co-author of the recently published ‘Standards for Pottery Studies in Archaeology’.
1295: The Year of the Galleys - Dr Ian Friel FSA
This lecture is about an extraordinary set of English shipbuilding accounts dating from the 1290s, when the ports of London, Southampton, Ipswich, York, Newcastle and other places constructed eight war galleys for King Edward I. These accounts are the earliest-known significant English shipbuilding records, but they also have a wider historical importance, offering a unique 'snapshot' of late 13th-century England. The lecture will consider the maritime aspects of the project, but will also show what the material has to tell us about the nature of working life for 'ordinary' people, from shipwrights and blacksmiths to the women employed to clear the shipbuilding sites of wood chips. The City of London built two of the biggest galleys, so 'The Year of the Galleys' will have an added interest for Gresham audiences.
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Places to see in ( Oxford - UK ) Pitt Rivers Museum
Places to see in ( Oxford - UK ) Pitt Rivers Museum
The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Pitt Rivers Museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building.
Pitt Rivers Museum was founded in 1884 by Lt-General Augustus Pitt Rivers, who donated his collection to the University of Oxford with the condition that a permanent lecturer in anthropology must be appointed. Pitt Rivers Museum staff are involved in teaching Archaeology and Anthropology at the University even today. The first Curator of the Museum was Henry Balfour. A second stipulation in the Deed of Gift was that a building should be provided to house the collection and used for no other purpose. The University therefore engaged Thomas Manly Deane, son of Thomas Newenham Deane who, together with Benjamin Woodward, had designed and built the original Oxford University Museum of Natural History building three decades earlier, to create an adjoining building at the rear of the main building to house the collection. Construction started in 1885 and was completed in 1886.
Pitt Rivers Museum collection is arranged thematically, according to how the objects were used, rather than according to their age or origin. Pitt Rivers Museum layout owes a lot to the theories of Pitt Rivers himself, who intended for his collection to show progression in design and evolution in human culture from the simple to the complex
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Late-Glacial/Early Holocene Palaeoenvironments and Evidence for the 8.2 ka Event in the North Sea
Late-Glacial/Early Holocene Palaeoenvironments and Evidence for the 8.2 ka Event in the Southern North Sea Basin: New Data from the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm
It is well known that the North Sea conceals an extensive Late Pleistocene and early Holocene palaeolandscape. Archaeological finds from the seabed show this former landscape was occupied by humans during periods when sea-levels were significantly lower than today and the British Isles formed the north-western promontory of the European continental shelf. Renewed interest in submerged palaeolandscapes has occurred chiefly in response to increasing pressure from commercial aggregate dredging, oil and gas exploration and offshore windfarm developments. This paper presents the results of an integrated palaeoenvironmental study (pollen, foraminifera, ostracods, plant macrofossils, molluscs) of organic sediments taken as part of geoarchaeological investigations on the site of the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm. The sediments cover a period of as much as 4,400 years (12,700-8300 cal yr BP), including a substantial peat covering the late Devensian/early Holocene transition (12,700-9260 cal yr BP). During the late Glacial the local environment is characterised by sub-alpine plant communities with open birch woodland, followed by development of birch and hazel woodland during the early Mesolithic. A phase of marine inundation occurred around 9500-9000 cal yr BP, with a final marine inundation of the area around 8400 cal yr BP, possibly linked to a meltwater pulse following the collapse of the Laurentide icesheet, precipitating major palaeogeographic and climatic changes within and beyond the North Sea. The results begin to address the deficiency in detailed palaeoenvironmental studies from the area, providing new data on patterns of physical, vegetation and environmental change in the context of rising post-glacial sea-levels
Alex Brown 1,2, Jack Russell 1, Rob Scaife 3, John Whittaker 4, Sarah Wyles 5
1 Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury, UK
2 Department of Archaeology, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, UK
3 Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
4 Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
5 Cotswold Archaeology, Hampshire, UK
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Archaeology and Imperialism (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism. In 1842 a young English adventurer called Austen Henry Layard set out to excavate what he hoped were the remains of the biblical city of Nineveh in Mesopotamia. On arrival he discovered that the local French consul, Paul Emile Botta, was already hard at work. Across the Middle East and in Egypt, archaeologists, antiquarians and adventurers were exploring cities older than the Bible and shipping spectacular monuments down the Nile and the Tigris to burgeoning European museums.What was it about the ancient cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia that so gripped the 19th century imagination? How did nationalism and imperialism affect the search for the ancient past and how did archaeology evolve from its adventuresome, even reckless, origins into the science of artefacts we know today?With Tim Champion, Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton; Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum; Eleanor Robson, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Archaeology and Imperialism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism. In 1842 a young English adventurer called Austen Henry Layard set out to excavate what he hoped were the remains of the biblical city of Nineveh in Mesopotamia. On arrival he discovered that the local French consul, Paul Emile Botta, was already hard at work. Across the Middle East and in Egypt, archaeologists, antiquarians and adventurers were exploring cities older than the Bible and shipping spectacular monuments down the Nile and the Tigris to burgeoning European museums.What was it about the ancient cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia that so gripped the 19th century imagination? How did nationalism and imperialism affect the search for the ancient past and how did archaeology evolve from its adventuresome, even reckless, origins into the science of artefacts we know today?With Tim Champion, Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton; Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum; Eleanor Robson, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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Places to see in ( Didcot - UK )
Places to see in ( Didcot - UK )
Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in the administrative county of Oxfordshire, England, 10 miles south of Oxford, 8 miles east of Wantage and 15 miles north west of Reading. Didcot is noted for its railway heritage, having been a station on Brunel's Great Western Main Line from London Paddington, opening in 1844.
Today the town is known for its railway museum and power stations, and is the gateway town to the Science Vale: three large science and technology centres in the surrounding villages of Milton (Milton Park), Culham (Culham Science Centre) and Harwell (Harwell Science and Innovation Campus which includes the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). The town was historically part of Berkshire until 1974 when there was county boundary change due to the Local Government Act 1972.
The area around present-day Didcot has been inhabited for at least 9000 years; a large-scale archaeological dig between 2010 and 2013 produced finds from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Iron Age and Bronze Ages. In the 1500s Didcot was a small village of landowners, tenants and tradespeople with a population of around 120. The oldest house still standing in Didcot is White Cottage, a Grade II listed wood shingle roofed, timber-framed building on Manor Road which was built in the early 16th century.
Didcot's junction of the routes to London, Bristol, Oxford and to Southampton via the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&S) made the town militarily important, especially during the First World War campaign on the Western Front and the Second World War preparations for D-Day.
Formed by the Great Western Society in 1967 to house its collection of Great Western Railway locomotives and rolling stock, now housed in Didcot's 1932-built Great Western engine shed. The station was originally called Didcot but then renamed Didcot Parkway in 1985 by British Rail; the site of the old GWR provender stores, which had been demolished in 1976 (the provender pond was kept to maintain the water table) was made into a large car park to attract passengers from the surrounding area. An improvement programme for the forecourt of the station began in September 2012 and was expected to take around fifteen months. This was viewed as being the first phase of better connecting the station to Didcot town centre.
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'Archaeology of Portus: exploring the lost harbour of ancient Rome' - free online course
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The Roman harbour city of Portus lay at the heart of an empire that extended from Scotland to Iraq. Established by Claudius and enlarged by the emperor Trajan with spoils of the Dacian wars, the port was the conduit for everything the city of Rome required from its Mediterranean provinces: the food and, particularly grain, that fed the largest urban population of the ancient world, as well as luxuries of all kinds, building materials, people and wild animals for the arena.
On this course you will chart a journey from the Imperial harbour to its connections across the Mediterranean, learning about what the archaeological discoveries uncovered by the Portus Project tell us about the history, landscape, buildings, and the people of this unique place. Although the site lies in ruins, it has some of the best-preserved Roman port buildings in the Mediterranean, and in this course you will learn to interpret these and the finds discovered within them, using primary research data and the virtual tools of the archaeologist.
Largely filmed on location at Portus, the course will provide you with an insight into the wide range of digital technologies employed to record, analyse and present the site. In addition to the lead educators, our enthusiastic team of student archaeologists will support your learning.
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2019 Rhind Lecture 3: The purpose and operation of Hadrian’s Wall under Hadrian
“The purpose and operation of Hadrian’s Wall under Hadrian” by Professor David Breeze
The process of building Hadrian’s Wall with its several layers of changes helps us to understand how it was intended to work. The role of Hadrian in the design and building of his Wall Created a unique monument, moreover, in order to understand this frontier better we must relate it to the way the Roman army operated and fought. Leo Rivet’s ‘evidence by analogy’ will be brought into play so that we can also better understand Hadrian’s Wall through comparison with other Roman and Greek linear barriers.
The 2019 Rhind Lectures, entitled “Hadrian’s Wall: A Study in Archaeological Exploration and Interpretation” and presented by Professor David Breeze OBE, BA, PhD, Hon DLitt, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, FRSE, Hon CIfA. Recorded in the National Museums Scotland auditorium at 2pm on 11 May 2019 by Mallard Productions Ltd. Sponsored by AOC Archaeology Group.
The Lectures
Hadrian’s Wall was written about even when it was occupied. The Romans produced souvenirs of the Wall, medieval scribes placed it on maps, antiquarian visitors recorded the remains, scholars from the Renaissance onwards argued about its date and purpose, and early archaeologists uncovered its walls. The age of modern discoveries started in the 1830s and over the succeeding 150 years a very substantial archaeological dataset has been created. The addition of new material, combined with new approaches to archaeological investigation, ensures that interpretations constantly require review.
These Rhind lectures examine the ways that data has been created, and then to move on to examine specific aspects of Hadrian’s Wall in depth, in particular its purpose and operation over time and its effect on the local population. In the final lecture, we look at the Wall today and some aspects of its future.
The Lecturer
Professor David J Breeze OBE, BA, PhD, Hon DLitt, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, FRSE, Hon CIfA was President of the Society from 1987-90. He served as Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland from 1989 to 2005 and as Chairman of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies until 2015. He has excavated on both Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall and published books on both as well as on Roman frontiers generally and on the Roman army.
Library For Jerusalem (1966)
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Story about the opening of the Library of Archaeology and Art, funded by the German publisher Axel Springer.
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VS. At small ceremony the German publisher Axel Springer lays a foundation stone for the Library of Archaeology and Art.
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Why I Do Archaeology
Dr. Dale Manor presents in chapel at York College as part of his archaeology and the Bible series, September 20, 2016. Manor was the guest of the Clayton Museum of Ancient History: claytonmuseumofancienthistory.org.
Where is the source of the gold used in the Bush Barrow dagger?
Located close to Stonehenge, Bush Barrow is Britain's richest Bronze Age burial. The most remarkable discovery was a gold-studded dagger pommel, set with thousands of microscopic gold studs thinner than a human hair. Using a recently developed scientific technique, Dr Chris Standish of Southampton University, has identifiede the likely source of the gold used to make this amazing object - answering a question that has puzzled archaeologists for decades.
Dr. Carenza Lewis - The contribution of Test Pits to Archaeology
Dr. Carenza Lewis from the University of Cambridge speaks on the value of test pits in helping archaeologists understand the history and development of Currently Occupied Rural Settlements (CORS) at the launch of the Swaledale Big Dig project 2014/2015.
Access Cambridge Archaeology (ACA)
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The primary aim of Access Cambridge Archaeology is to enhance educational, economic and social well-being through active participation in archaeology.
(AV17399) Archaeology in Context
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Ancient food offerings left in a royal tomb in the Iraqi city of Ur more than 4,500 years ago are un
Ancient food offerings left in a royal tomb in the Iraqi city of Ur more than 4,500 years ago are uncovered ... on top of a cupboard in Bristol
Food offerings left in a royal tomb in the ancient city of Ur at least 4,500 years ago have been discovered on top of a university cupboard.
Researchers at the University of Bristol found the large wooden box during a clear out in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The box was filled with pottery, seeds and animals bones and contained words such as 'predynastic', 'sargonid' and 'Royal Tombs' written on index cards.
Further investigation revealed that these were the remains of food offerings from a royal tomb at least 4,500 years old.
It is believed the remains were collected during famous excavations by Sir Leonard Wolley in the site of Ur in southern Iraq during the 1920s and 1930s.
Experts say the discovery of the box is particularly exciting, as environmental finds were rarely collected in this early period of archaeological fieldwork.
Dr Tamar Hodos, senior lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bristol said it was unclear how the box had been left on top of the cupboard.
'The remaining mystery is how this material came to be at Bristol in the first place,' Dr Hodos said.
'The environmental remains themselves were published in 1978 in Journal of Archaeological Science.
'The authors of that study were based at the Institute of Archaeology, London, and at the University of Southampton, and none of them had any known connection to the University of Bristol that might explain how the material came to reside here.
'If anyone can shed light on this mystery, we would love to hear from them.'
The original excavation was jointly sponsored by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum, with finds divided between London, Philadelphia and Baghdad.
After the box was discovered, Dr Hodos contacted experts from the British Museum's Near Eastern Archaeology department about where the material should be housed.
The remains will now join the rest of the British Museum's collection from Ur, which is part of a digitisation programme sponsored by the Leon Levy Foundation and undertaken with the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Dr Hodos added that the box was found while researchers were emptying current laboratory spaces in preparation for the installation of a new radiocarbon dating facility, which will open next year.
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