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The space and time of Celtic Art: interrogating the 'Technologies of Enchantment' database
No full textStepping stones to the Neolithic? Islands, maritime connectivity and the 'western seaways' of Britain, 5000-3500 BC
No full textThe Stepping Stones project, directed by Duncan Garrow (University of Liverpool) and Fraser Sturt (University of Southampton), aims to answer important research questions about the arrival of the Neolithic in and around Britain and Ireland c. 4000 BC. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Liverpool and the University of Southampton. The initial research which led to the project was part-funded by the Society of Antiquaries of London. It is also generously supported by our project partner museums: Guernsey Museums and Galleries, Museum nan Eilean and the Isles of Scilly Museum
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Seaways and shared ways: imaging and imagining the movement of people, objects and ideas over the course of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, c. 5000-3500 BC
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Continental connections: concluding discussion
No full textIt is all too easy to fall into established tropes when considering the changing nature of continental connections – to discuss ‘isolated islands’ or ‘hyper connected seaways’. Part of the trouble lies in the fact that, as with many other clichés, each of these extremes has proven to be true at different points in time: from the impact of changing palaeogeography on hominin habitation patterns in the Palaeolithic, through to more recent movement of goods and people across seaways. As such, the papers in this volume have made clear the need for a more subtle appreciation of movement, communication and interaction than stereotypical presumptions permit. This re-evaluation requires a careful consideration both of how we determine connectivity from archaeological remains and, just as significantly, of how we frame the topic and orientate ourselves in relation to i
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Archaeology and anthropology: understanding similarity, exploring difference
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New models of North West European Holocene palaeogeography and inundation
No full textThis paper presents new 500 year interval palaeogeographic models for Britain, Ireland and the North West French coast from 11000 cal. BP to present. These models are used to calculate the varying rates of inundation for different geographical zones over the study period. This allows for consideration of the differential impact that Holocene sea-level rise had across space and time, and on past societies. In turn, consideration of the limitations of the models helps to foreground profitable areas for future research
Technologies of enchantment: Celtic Art in Iron Age and Roman Britain
No full textThis AHRC funded project entitled 'Technologies of enchantment: Celtic Art in Iron Age and Roman Britain' - aimed to investigate the artefacts found in Britain between about 300 BC and 150 AD which have come to be known as 'Celtic Art'. Although, in recent years, questions have been raised about whether the Celts actually did exist as a distinct group of people, the term 'Celtic Art' continues to be used to describe a group of distinctively decorated objects found right across Europe during the later Iron Age and early Roman periods.
The Celtic Art style incorporates abstract patterns, along with semi-abstract and naturalistic human, animal and plant imagery. It is clearly distinguishable from Roman and Greek Classical art of the same date. The majority of Celtic Art objects are made of metal (including bronze, iron, gold and silver). However, the distinctive decorative patterns are also found occasionally on objects made from bone, wood and pottery. Some of the most famous items are the torcs buried at Snettisham, the Battersea shield which was deposited in the River Thames, and several bronze mirrors found mostly in southern Britain.
In the past, Celtic Art has been analysed in much the same way as more recent paintings and sculpture: people have focused on the various motifs decorating the objects and discussed how they changed gradually over time. The aim of this project, however, is to place these undeniably beautiful artefacts back into their archaeological contexts and to investigate how they fitted into the Iron Age and Romano-British societies in which they were made
Probability (y-axis), p(D'≥D), for observing a score D' greater than or equal to D (x-axis) for either bbtm (■) or ntm (▲) proteins
No full text<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "TMB-Hunt: An amino acid composition based method to screen proteomes for beta-barrel transmembrane proteins"</p><p>BMC Bioinformatics 2005;6():56-56.</p><p>Published online 15 Mar 2005</p><p>PMCID:PMC1274253.</p><p>Copyright © 2005 Garrow et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</p> Plots were made by calculating the frequencies of bbtm and ntm proteins identified above certain discrimination scores (using weighted amino acids, no evolutionary information and a 'leave homologues out' cross-validation)
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