Yes, the artefacts recovered are of historic significance, but it would be foolish to pretend they have no monetary value. |
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Very crudely speaking, these two artefacts bookend the period of Babylonian supremacy in Mesopotamia. |
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Items sold were mostly local and seasonal, farm produce or locally made artefacts. |
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Winchester Museum also holds many flints and other ancient artefacts from this area. |
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Enticing showpieces from Muradabad and sleek artefacts made of German silver are the highlights of the expo. |
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The current cottage museum is rapidly deteriorating and is no longer fit to house priceless Burns manuscripts and artefacts. |
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The collection of artefacts on display and their notable lineage contribute to this, but so does the setting, thatch and all. |
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The most outstanding was in Barrow 1, a male inhumation accompanied by many artefacts, some of them from remote sources. |
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They worked with picks, breaking up the soil which was then passed through a riddle to recover artefacts. |
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The museum opened in 1983 to pay tribute to the commitment of past firefighters and to preserve historic artefacts. |
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Sources said the artefacts would be displayed in a purpose-built secure exhibition centre. |
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Another criticism is that they sentimentalise the past or make it antiquarian by abnegating the context and concentrating on the artefacts. |
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Scott, an avid collector of books and other rare artefacts, bought the book for 10 guineas at auction. |
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Buildings and artefacts from different periods had been waterlogged and covered in silt, which acted as a perfect preservative. |
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These include various carved bricks, artefacts, earthenware objects, metal ornaments, funeral urns, and stone sculptures, especially Buddhas. |
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Perhaps he is more incisive on individually produced artefacts like paintings or buildings. |
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During the Bronze Age Ireland had a significant metal industry, and exported artefacts in bronze, copper, and gold to Britain and the Continent. |
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His unspeakably violent Cultural Revolution led to the destruction of historic buildings as well as incalculable numbers of books and artefacts. |
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The terrace style restaurant is adorned with handicrafts and artefacts from the four regions. |
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Opponents to one of Waterford city's regeneration projects fear that valuable artefacts may be destroyed by developers' digging. |
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These ethnic artefacts use interesting materials such as beaver fur, moose hide and deer toes. |
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Enter Buddhism in the search box for a set of links to resources, including artefacts such as prayer wheels, a bell and Buddha statues. |
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The artefacts unearthed have intrigued university experts so much that they hope to continue the dig next year. |
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Since she exports artefacts by the container load, she often negotiate contracts with local artists, a year or more in advance. |
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I can't help but to think about how the great museums of Europe amassed their collections of cultural artefacts. |
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All the historical artefacts rescued from the building will be sold at auction next month. |
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The Orkney Museum's latest items include models of a Viking longship and a sailing ship as well as children's toys and domestic artefacts. |
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Piotrovsky has also earmarked a further building in St Petersburg for a separate space to display artefacts from the archaeology department. |
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Long-distance trade both east and west is well attested, as well as internal commerce in artefacts and foodstuffs. |
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He was particularly interested in the attics of old buildings, where he sometimes found valuable artefacts among the rubbish. |
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He wants to recover artefacts from the ship, which will be donated to museums or offered for sale. |
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His best work, often direct copies of authentic Maori artefacts, deceived art experts and collectors around the world. |
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This is especially apparent in the little black hole in which the Maori taonga and artefacts are presented. |
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A 30 kg baggage allowance would enable us to cart most of India's artefacts home with us. |
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The Burns Museum is a treasure-trove of manuscripts, books, paintings and artefacts. |
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By contrast, the fungal cells of the sheath and the Hartig net were less susceptible to freezing artefacts. |
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The series of period rooms are a matchless setting for the wonderful collection of furniture and artefacts. |
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Now Edna, with the help of local councillor Bernard Selby, plans to collate records, press cuttings and artefacts detailing his wartime actions. |
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The capsule is a strong container containing references and artefacts of today's living. |
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The Museum's imaginative mix of social history and artefacts provides a maze of information. |
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You also console yourself with the knowledge that these are historical artefacts from a bygone era. |
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We find representations or stencils of hands or artefacts such as boomerangs, throwing sticks or nets. |
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The juxtaposition of press clippings and grim artefacts offers a memento mori. |
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Many are fakes, but genuine artefacts are looted or dug up by treasure seekers. |
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The South American country is seeking the return of some 4,900 artefacts from the Inca citadel, including ceramics, cloths and metalwork. |
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Historical artefacts preserved from that period show the might of the Bulgarian tsar dynasties and the influence of the Bulgarian Patriarch. |
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New artefacts are being brought in all the time either by donation or bequest. |
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People watching in the Eternal City is almost as fascinating as examining the more ancient Roman artefacts. |
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Unesco has adopted a new cultural convention to protect historic shipwrecks and underwater artefacts from pillaging. |
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The Museum houses an impressive collection of artefacts and pictures relating to many famous ships and shipwrecks. |
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According to authorities, Braude flew into JFK airport in June and the artefacts were discovered during a routine customs check. |
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Interestingly the exhibitions link past and present with some modern artefacts and photos on display. |
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But as a result of the find, the dig has been widened to see if the land contains any more artefacts. |
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Pupils from Cawood Primary School joined in the scheme when they helped sift through molehills looking for artefacts. |
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And now, in far away Chelmsford, were artefacts purporting an association with the 12th century architect of Orkney's magnificent mother church. |
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Pupils can explore different beliefs by looking at the artefacts in a glass display case at the back of a classroom. |
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The artefacts don't seem to have changed since our last visit although many of the pictures were skew-whiff. |
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Buildings are not only artefacts of expressive culture, but important sites for the continuous enactment of culture in everyday life. |
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It has already been used to scan historical artefacts, including Egyptian mummies, and body organs and bones for teaching medical students. |
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The conservation of bone artefacts mainly concerns objects made of ivory, camel bone, elephant tusks and horn. |
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In early 1913 six Maori greenstone artefacts disappeared from a showcase in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. |
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Exhibitions of artefacts, curios and products of everyday use are one of the indispensable aspects of city life. |
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Now our understanding has been transformed by large numbers of artefacts from excavations and, recently, from detectorists. |
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These are unquiet presences, artefacts that assume the nature of living things. |
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Its stone walls, large fireplace, old snugs and nautical artefacts give it a rare character, and there is live music every night. |
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Ni-Vanuatu asked for people who were connected to the artefacts to be present in the gallery. |
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Many stop over to browse through the pieces and after striking a good bargain, take home artefacts that have their origin in Rajasthan. |
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Perhaps the most disappointing note is the prosaic nature of the display of the smaller archaeological artefacts in vitrines against one wall. |
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Chester and York attract coach loads of visitors with their Roman walls and artefacts. |
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A term applied to art or artefacts characterized by vulgarity, sentimentality, and pretentious bad taste. |
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To the north of the cathedral is the Historical Treasures Museum, devoted mainly to artefacts and precious stones and metals from Ukraine. |
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Clap sticks, coolamons, and boomerangs are just some examples of artefacts entered in the two-day competition. |
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Other artefacts uncovered include a silver bowl, glassware, pottery, coins and a jet brooch. |
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In the visitor centre, artefacts taken from Oakbank are put on display, including a toggle, a pendant and cherry stones. |
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The Mohican decorated their deerskin clothing, baskets, and other artefacts with quillwork, corn husks, beads, feathers, and paint. |
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For the first time we have a glimpse of the perishable artefacts which played such a major role in Aztec rituals, pomp and ceremony. |
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They subjugated women, destroyed centuries-old artefacts and killed dissenters. |
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With an abundance of remains there are ample extant buildings and artefacts in situ. |
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It uses locally collected artefacts, and pictures of the dramatic events of 1940, to tell its story. |
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In 1995, thieves burrowed through the wall of a storeroom used to house artefacts at the Temple of Montu in Karnak, and looted some 55 scarabs and statues. |
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Underground, many artefacts can be seen, including stemples supporting stacked deads, ladders, pump rods and pipes, pulleys, ore tubs, windlasses, guide chutes and timbers. |
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Many embankments, timber revetments and masonry river walls from the 10th to the 15th centuries were recovered, and tonnes of artefacts retrieved. |
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However, in recent years he has turned his skill and artistry to the crafting of artefacts wrought from ancient native woods, bone, gold, bronze and steel. |
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Because this policy sees every object in terms of personal identity, it is blind to imaginative or well-crafted paintings, interesting or rare historical artefacts. |
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While some WWII casualties have been salvaged, many of the wrecks that litter the unique Rock Island eco-system are full of marine life and hoary artefacts. |
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Once upon a time, those artefacts were merely gift articles. |
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Historical photographs and museum artefacts have been used to regenerate traditional barkcloth production on Erromango and mat-making on Ambae, amongst other projects. |
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Adjoining the visitors shop is Hartlepool Museum, which is stuffed full of artefacts telling the story of the town, particularly its maritime heritage. |
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Our first speaker, Silja Saarepuu, spoke on the depiction of animals on bronze and other artefacts found in the Permian and Komi territories of the Russian Federation. |
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High-class Roman artefacts and coin hoards north of the frontier have been interpreted as such diplomatic gifts or subsidies, but they are few in number. |
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In many European countries major political upheavals and wars since the 18th century caused dispersion of cultural artefacts such as portraits throughout the world. |
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The museum has some of the rare artefacts like brassware, weapons, tools, coins, Buddhist sculptures and paintings dating back to the pre-Christ period. |
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This weekend a spokesman confirmed that the artefacts would go on show in the first year of the dome's new existence as a commercially run arena and leisure centre. |
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The richest source of all for prehistoric artefacts has been the Thames. |
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They also recognize a broad variety of contexts, including physical topography, other human landscape artefacts and religious or cultural beliefs about the landscape. |
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Notable artefacts included a cast copper alloy drinking-horn end, a section of a copper alloy bracelet or torc, and two sections of stone finger rings. |
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It is one of the most commonly collected artefacts, where its market worth is arbitrarily unhinged from its clearly marked original face value, in the philatelist's eye. |
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Next will continue to occupy its Stonegate premises and Classics, the ethnic artefacts, clothing and jewellery shop would continue to occupy Blake Street frontages. |
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The phenomenon is easily seen by eye and apparently cannot be ascribed to statistical artefacts, selection procedures or flawed reduction techniques. |
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has plenty of money to give out, but collecting and interpreting the artefacts of human history is just not where it's at. |
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And also, within the stone artefacts we found pieces of obsidian and there's no volcanic glass on Norfolk, and this was sourced as coming from the Kermadec Islands. |
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Artworks in a museum tend to become historical documents or artefacts. |
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It's also entirely likely that we have not come of age and I might be the forefather of a hundred generations of priests designated the holy task of worshipping the artefacts. |
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One of those artefacts was a pewter plate inscribed with the name Matute. |
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Many of the artefacts were made under the suzerainty of the Uighurs, a Turkic people from western China who were the dominant power in Central Asia for nearly a century. |
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They were each found in separate cabins, or compartments of the ship, for which a function could be determined by association with the artefacts found. |
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When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts, in a word, their archaeology. |
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But although I talk about artefacts and taonga, I do not believe that cultural heritage is or should be confined to movable or portable artefacts. |
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Exhibits include exquisite wooden panels, woodcarvings, ivory works, bronze castings, archaeological artefacts, stone sculptures and palm-leaf etchings. |
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The studied artefacts include unperforated axes as well as shaft-hole implements. |
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English Heritage is a governmental body with a broad remit of managing the historic sites, artefacts and environments of England. |
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The Iron Age is not an archaeological horizon of common artefacts, but is rather a locally diverse cultural phase. |
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Several archaeological cultures are considered Celtic in nature, based on unique sets of artefacts. |
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Material artefacts left by the Romans and the invaders are often similar, and tribal items were often modelled on Roman objects. |
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Wells and Mendip Museum includes many historical artefacts from the city and surrounding Mendip Hills. |
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The base units used in the metric system must be realisable, ideally with reference to natural phenomena rather than unique artefacts. |
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One day while visiting Semira and Ahmed I commented on the Oromo pictures and artefacts displayed in their loungeroom. |
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It contains 15,000 artefacts, from antiquity to the 20th century, representing almost all aspects of the history of science. |
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The artefacts are nearly all martial in character and contains no objects specific to female uses. |
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Zimbabwean artefacts can be found in countries like Singapore, China and Canada. |
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Many of the Roman artefacts from this site may be found in the Kendal museum. |
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The hoard was most likely deposited in the 7th century, and contains artefacts probably manufactured during the 6th and 7th centuries. |
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A final geophysical survey using specialist equipment provided by the Home Office did not suggest any further artefacts remained to be found. |
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In the world of the poem purchased artefacts displace human agency, and 'trivial things' assume dominance. |
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The Museum nevertheless preserves its universality in its collections of artefacts representing the cultures of the world, ancient and modern. |
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The Museum continues to collect historic artefacts and also commissions new paintings and photography. |
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In Llandudno in Wales, he bought a public house on the Great Orme, which today retains several genuine artefacts from his career. |
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English Heritage is the governmental body with a broad remit of managing the historic sites, artefacts and environments of England. |
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The exhibits include a collection of fine and decorative art, items from Dundee's history and natural history artefacts. |
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Chinese porcelain, West African coins and artefacts from Thailand have been discovered in Qatar. |
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The most prosperous period of the Cretan civilization was Neopalatial period and most of the artefacts are from this era. |
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A large number of artefacts from the Protopalatial can be seen today in Cretan museums. |
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The first settlers left behind artefacts that present characteristics shared with those found in Estonia, Russia, and Norway. |
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Having earned a reputation as an excellent prehistorian, he was invited to other parts of Europe in order to study prehistoric artefacts. |
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He believed that those archaeologists who adhered to it placed a greater emphasis on artefacts themselves rather than their makers. |
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Divers are permitted to enter the wrecks, but not to retrieve artefacts located within 100 metres of any wreck. |
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Their sites are identified by construction details of their hill forts and metalwork artefacts. |
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Archaeological digs in the area have found flintwork and other artefacts which have been assigned dates from 6000 BC onwards. |
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Viking burial sites and artefacts have been found in the area and dated to that time. |
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The grave was preserved however and when opened in 1827 yielded a number of remarkable artefacts dating back to Lindisfarne. |
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Efforts were made to prevent reconstruction workers from using rubble from important ruins to repair roads, and to search for artefacts. |
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Archaeological excavations of this site have uncovered one of the best collections of Saxon artefacts in Europe. |
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Archaeologists and conservators had to work in tandem from the start to prevent deterioration of the artefacts. |
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This new museum displays most of the artefacts recovered from within the ship in context with the conserved hull. |
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As a taxonomic classification of artefacts, industries rank higher than archaeological cultures. |
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Therefore, artefacts from a single industry may come from a number of different cultures. |
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A close collection of artefacts on the sea bed may imply that artefacts were from a ship, even if there are no remains of the actual vessel. |
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Mycenaean artefacts have been found well outside the limits of the Mycenean world. |
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Numerous artefacts of Scandinavian affinity have been found in northern Russia. |
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Deposition of artefacts in wetlands was a practice in Scandinavia during many periods of prehistory. |
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Many of the souks of Muttrah sell these items and traditional Omani artefacts. |
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Eccentric flints are among the finest lithic artefacts produced by the ancient Maya. |
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There are a great many museums across the world with Maya artefacts in their collections. |
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From at least five centuries of use, fewer than 200 artefacts bearing futhorc inscriptions have survived. |
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He was normally content to record surface remains and recovered artefacts, but on one occasion he adopted a more interventionist approach. |
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No archaeological sites in Wallacea have produced any evidence of edge-ground stone artefacts at this early date. |
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Through this understanding, sites and artefacts are anthropomorphised to behave like people and to take physical characteristics of humans. |
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Out of 126 glass artefacts, 42 were smashed, 12 were damaged but restorable and 72 were unaffected. |
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The roll-top desk is included in a bundle of artefacts that will be sold by Cato Crane next week. |
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The Tudor artefacts include weapons, musical instruments, medical equipment, gold coins and even a man-bag used by a sailor to carry his clothes. |
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The gold spirals were unearthed in the Boeslunde area to the north of Skaelskoer, where several Bronze Age gold artefacts had been found. |
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Plato uses the term 'onoma' for these terms, and gives only sortals of artefacts as examples. |
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There are numerous surviving artefacts, such as those at Lullingstone and Aldborough. |
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Making artefacts for the home is a tradition with Orcadians, who have to be more or less self-reliant. |
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My site is Palenque, Mexico, and the great majority of the artefacts of that 'city of inscriptions' are simply no longer there. |
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Scrapers, retouched flakes, burins, scaled pieces and notched denticulate forms dominate artefacts. |
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The church will be open and medieval artefacts such as the Mirfield Stone and gravemarker will be on show. |
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The artefacts made by humans at the site allowed archaeologists to tie the ancient people to a cultural tradition known as the Gravettian. |
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Flaked stone artefacts are found in direct physical association with a range of megafauna that includes Genyornis newtoni, Diprotodon sp. |
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It houses an impressive collection of artefacts from the pre-historic and Harappan periods. |
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And when he did finally move, in 1901, to the Marquesas island of Hiva Oa, none of its artefacts appeared in his paintings. |
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Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age copper artefacts from the Balkans and their relation to Serbian copper ores. |
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It was while working on a wreck in the Erme Estuary in the 1980s in Devon that Neville found a treasure trove of gold and other artefacts. |
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The inner fjord sites have deeper house depressions, with far more extensive midden deposits and abundant artefacts. |
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The settlement included an urupa that was being desecrated by the toilet blocks, thoughtless campers and 'archaeologists' who fossicked for artefacts among the graves. |
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Among the added artefacts is a sculpture of the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, who had the power to change men into women, and the statues of Hadrian and Antinous. |
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The specialist chapters take us through environmental change, human remains, stone artefacts, bone artefacts and isoleucine epimerization in Casuarius eggshells. |
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Visitors will be able to see displays of machinery, the collection of artefacts and a gallery of photographs, along with two fully working power looms. |
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A 10-minute drive away is the Cosmosphere, a brilliant interactive space museum with one of the largest collections of artefacts and spacecraft in the world. |
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Thousands of artefacts have been shipped in to make Islands as authentic as possible, including boats, shop fronts, tuk-tuks and over 52,000 tropical plants. |
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The similarities between the artefacts and the modern recreations suggest that the toolmakers of Blombos Cave used pressure-flaking about 75,000 years ago. |
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There will also be a display of pest species affecting museum artefacts, some of which are also found in homes, such as woodworm, carpet beetles and clothes moths. |
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The flint used was Senonian flint originating from southeastern Denmark, the same type from which the artefacts from Svartskylle and Kverrestad were made. |
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These aspects include the identification of certain chemical components within the artefacts and the isotope analysis of Strontium and Lanthanides. |
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Corrosion and conservation of cultural heritage metallic artefacts. |
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However, little organic artefacts survived in the acidic soil. |
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The artefacts, known as The Staffordshire Hoard have tentatively been dated to the 7th or 8th centuries, placing the origin of the items in the time of the Kingdom of Mercia. |
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The variety of rocks used in polished tools and other artefacts is evident in museum collections, not all of the sources of the rocks having been positively identified. |
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The Furness Hoard discovery of Viking silver coins and other artefacts in 2011 provided significant archaeological evidence of Norse settlement in the early 9th century. |
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Excavations at Aguateca uncovered a number of scribal artefacts from the residences of elite status scribes, including palettes and mortars and pestles. |
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Bone and stone artefacts similar to those found at Kunda have been discovered elsewhere in Estonia, as well as in Latvia, northern Lithuania and southern Finland. |
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The culture is characterised by a high degree of sophistication in the production of metal and ceramic artefacts, as well as of uniformity over a vast area. |
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Saltwater is particularly inimical to iron artefacts including metal shipwrecks, and sea organisms will readily consume organic material such as wooden shipwrecks. |
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Over 26,000 artefacts and pieces of timber were raised along with remains of about half the crew members, The faces of some crew members have been reconstructed. |
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The many layers of sediment that had accumulated on the site could be used to date artefacts in which they were found, and had to be recorded properly. |
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Many of the artefacts are unique to the Mary Rose and have provided insights into topics ranging from naval warfare to the history of musical instruments. |
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No artefacts that appear to be obvious fishing equipment have been found, but the range and sizes of species present indicate that a number of methods must have been employed. |
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Formal bone tools are relatively rare artefacts to find at MSA sites. |
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The excavations revealed the survival of superimposed land surfaces, whose layers revealed hearth structures and other characteristic mesolithic artefacts. |
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Studies date the lithics recovered at least as early as 7000 BC, with most of the artefacts from the Ythan mouth area deriving from the Sands of Forvie. |
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Fishing trawlers working the area have dredged up large amounts of moor peat, remains of mammoth and rhinoceros, and occasionally Paleolithic hunting artefacts. |
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Roman artefacts are on display in the Roman Gardens which run parallel to the city walls from Newgate to the River Dee, where there's also a reconstructed hypocaust system. |
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On display at the centre are more than 80,000 artefacts, including Olympic medals, a pattern coin of Edward VIII, a Janvier reducing machine and a selection of trial plates. |
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Human remains, sometimes accompanied by artefacts, have been found in or close to the dolmens which could be scientifically dated using radiocarbon dating. |
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Not much of the art remained from the Prepalatial times, and most of artefacts still existing today are Cycladic statuettes and pottery fragments. |
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In the latter part of the second millennium, the finds of archaeology allowed a view of the settlement pattern to be inferred from changes in artefacts. |
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The British Museum continues to assert that it is an appropriate custodian and has an inalienable right to its disputed artefacts under British law. |
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Metal working was not indigenous to Oceania before Europeans arrived, so many of the artefacts from the collection are made from stone, shell, bone and bamboo. |
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Mallowan returned with his wife Agatha Christie to carry out further digs at Nimrud in the postwar period which secured many important artefacts for the museum. |
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The quality of the artefacts buried in the hoard is very high. |
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The museum houses artefacts from the Roman period including objects which were thrown into the Sacred Spring, presumably as offerings to the goddess. |
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When the mole and the candela were accepted by the CGPM in 1971 and 1975 respectively, both had been defined by third parties by reference to phenomena rather than artefacts. |
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In many parts of the world, large hoards of bronze artefacts are found, suggesting that bronze also represented a store of value and an indicator of social status. |
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The site remained undisturbed until 1913, when during a single weekend the site was plundered by a party with shovels who took away an unknown quantity of artefacts. |
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Apart from amorphous retouched pieces and fragments of retouched artefacts, identifiable implements include a burren adze slug, a tula adze and a geometric microlith. |
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