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# World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: Open Access

February 26, 2013
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##### Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (eds) 2013. World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new 280,000-word overview of the world archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Details are below. The book is published simultaneously in hard copy, and online in open access form on the Pitt Rivers Museum website – http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/world.html

The volume is the product of a three-year collections-based research project – Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, funded by the John Fell OUP Research Fund. Led by Dr Dan Hicks (University Lecturer and Curator of Archaeology), the project sought to develop the first overview of the range and research potential of the Museum’s world archaeology collections. The open access publication will allow researchers and communities around the world to access information about the museum’s archaeological collections.

‘World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization’ introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, and sets out priorities for future research into the collection. Through 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 – which the project calls “characterization” – 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

Copies of the physical book can be ordered from Archaeopress here – http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/defaultAll.asp?QuickSearch=9781905739585

- ## Table of Contents

  1 Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Dan Hicks

  SECTION 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

  SECTION II: EUROPE

  9 Palaeolithic Britain. Alison Roberts

  10 Palaeolithic Continental Europe. Alison Roberts and Nick Barton

  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

  SECTION 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

  SECTION 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 Ohinata and Simon Kaner

  25 China. Lukas Nickel

  26 Myanmar and Malaysia. Huw Barton

  SECTION 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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