The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated - from artefacts to the archive, from poetry to…
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Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s. The discussion centres on the collecting of Koryo celadon ceramics as they formed the focal point of commercial exchanges of Korean artefacts and explores how their acquisition and ownership formed part of the complex power relationship that played out between the Koreans, Japanese, Americans, and Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the volume analyses collectors' acquisition practices, arguing that their fascination with celadon ceramics from the Koryo kingdom (918-1392) was shaped not only by the aesthetic appeal of the objects, but also by biased perceptions of the Korean peninsula, its history, and people. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, social history, cultural history, Korean studies, collection studies, museum studies, Korean history, and Asian studies. 12 Halftones, color; 54 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, color; 54 Illustrations, black and white
Scientists once could reconstruct humanity's distant past only from the mute testimony of ancient settlements, bones, and artefacts. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
For more than 120 years the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex -- an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data -- has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its observations, especially the calculation of a kind of 'leap year' in the Mayan Calendar, was deemed an impressive curiosity used primarily for astrology.
The collection was discovered by Terry Herbert on July 5, 2009 in Staffordshire. A team of researchers identified 700 items from between AD600 and AD650.
Image 18 of 37 from gallery of India's Forgotten Stepwells. Photograph by Victoria S Lautman
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This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management. Exploring managerial techniques, the social and material tools used by actors to guide or facilitate collective activities, topics include their socio-materiality,…
A female gladiator is apparently a gladiatrix, plural gladiatrices. There, now that I've told you that, I'm free to use the word in the rest of this article. Archaeologists and classicists don't disagree on whether or not there were female gladiators in ancient Rome. It's clear from a number of contemporary accounts that there were. Just how rare they were is another question, depictions of them in physical form are very rare, but mentions of them in writing are much more conclusive. There are a number of recorded laws preventing high class women from training as gladiatrices, or banning female gladiatrices outright, opinionated poems calling on high class women to stop playing soldier by learning the fighting arts because no man would want them, and other casual mentions of their existence. The most visual evidence has, up until now, been a carved relief of "Amazon" and "Achillia," the stage names of two gladiatrices who apparently both fought in heavy armor and received honorable discharges from the arena. But researchers have recently discovered what may be the second known depiction of a gladiatrix in history.
China is a big country that’s almost as large as the whole of Europe. That is why it is no surprise that China is quite diverse in terms of its terrain, climate, architecture, and culture. When visiting, one can marvel at its spectacular urbanism as well as natural gems and rich history that shines next to fascinating innovations.
The man leading the search for King John’s Treasure says he is 100% confident that he has found the hoard.
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Investigations at Happisburgh, UK, have revealed the oldest known hominin footprint surface outside Africa at between ca. 1 million and 0.78 million years ago. The site has long been recognised for the preservation of sediments containing Early Pleistocene fauna and flora, but since 2005 has also yielded humanly made flint artefacts, extending the record of human occupation of northern Europe by at least 350,000 years. The sediments consist of sands, gravels and laminated silts laid down by a large river within the upper reaches of its estuary. In May 2013 extensive areas of the laminated sediments were exposed on the foreshore. On the surface of one of the laminated silt horizons a series of hollows was revealed in an area of ca. 12 m2. The surface was recorded using multi-image photogrammetry which showed that the hollows are distinctly elongated and the majority fall within the range of juvenile to adult hominin foot sizes. In many cases the arch and front/back of the foot can be identified and in one case the impression of toes can be seen. Using foot length to stature ratios, the hominins are estimated to have been between ca. 0.93 and 1.73 m in height, suggestive of a group of mixed ages. The orientation of the prints indicates movement in a southerly direction on mud-flats along the river edge. Early Pleistocene human fossils are extremely rare in Europe, with no evidence from the UK. The only known species in western Europe of a similar age is Homo antecessor, whose fossil remains have been found at Atapuerca, Spain. The foot sizes and estimated stature of the hominins from Happisburgh fall within the range derived from the fossil evidence of Homo antecessor.
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World history is the narrative of humanity's past, understood and studied through archaeology, anthropology, genetics, and linguistics. Since the invention of writing, human history has been studied through primary and secondary source documents.
File name: 08_02_004880 Box label: J.W. Black photographs: Great Fire of 1872 Title: Milk St. opposite post office Alternative title: Creator/Contributor: Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896 (photographer) Date issued: Date created: 1872 (approximate) Physical description: 1 photographic print : albumen ; 9 x 7 in. Genre: Albumen prints Subjects: Fires; Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872 Notes: Provenance: Statement of responsibility: J.W. Black Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
This thesis proposes a correlation between the twenty-four Canterbury Tales and an external ordered system, namely the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which one might infer Chaucer's intended ordering of the Tales.
Previously overlooked patterns in the cave art of southern France and Spain suggest man might have learned written communication 25,000 years earlier than we thought. By Robin McKie
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Archeologists say the academic value of the collection found in Cherry Hinton is 'immeasurable'
China is a big country that’s almost as large as the whole of Europe. That is why it is no surprise that China is quite diverse in terms of its terrain, climate, architecture, and culture. When visiting, one can marvel at its spectacular urbanism as well as natural gems and rich history that shines next to fascinating innovations.
The Peak District might be best known for its picturesque natural beauty but as these images reveal, there's also an other worldly side to the scenic spot.
In a series of caves near Tibet there lies some strange and mysterious artifacts among the graves of creatures belonging to the humanoid race. Many feel these artifacts tell a tale of aliens crashi…
Antoine Pesne. Portrt des Johann Melchior Dinglinger. circa 1721 Иоганн Мельхиор Динглингер (26 декабря 1664, Биберах-ан-дер-Рис - 6 марта 1731, Дрезден) немецкий ювелир эпохи барокко, придворный мастер курфюрста Саксонии и короля Речи Посполитой Августа II... Между прочим,…
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The writer hopes Rowan Atkinson could be among the stars of the big screen version as he lets rip at museums for ‘killing interest’ in artefacts
