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Gifts and discoveries : the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge

Title
Gifts and discoveries : the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge / edited by Mark Elliot and Nicholas Thomas.
Publication
London : Scala, 2011.

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  • Elliot, Mark.
  • Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-
  • Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Description
96 p. : col. ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge holds world-class collections of art and artefacts from many parts of Oceania, Africa, Asia and the Americas. These ethnographic objects include spectacular masks, canoes and sculptures, some collected during the voyages of Captain Cook to the Pacific, others assembled by Cambridge fieldworkers from the late 19th century onwards. The museum also displays epoch-making archaeological discoveries, ranging from the very earliest hominid tools, excavated by Louis Leakey from Olduvai Gorge in eastern Africa, through early south American textiles, to Roman and Anglo-Saxon finds from various parts of Britain. This beautifully illustrated and illuminating book introduces one of the most important institutions of its kind in Britain, and explores the significance of these world-class collections for 21st-century audiences.
Donor/Sponsor
Purchased with the Jeremiah Kaplan Endowment for the Social Sciences.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic references (p. 96).
Contents
Africa -- Asia -- Oceania -- The Americas -- Europe.
Call Number
JFE 12-2094
ISBN
  • 185759715X
  • 9781857597158
OCLC
773318475
Title
Gifts and discoveries : the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge / edited by Mark Elliot and Nicholas Thomas.
Imprint
London : Scala, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references (p. 96).
Added Author
Elliot, Mark.
Thomas, Nicholas, 1960- Editor
Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-2094
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