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MuseumsSite Name: Pitt Rivers Museum
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.602 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Oxfordshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Oxford
Map Ref: SP51510695  Landranger Map Number: 164
Latitude: 51.758876N  Longitude: 1.2551W
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Pitt Rivers Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum submitted by Creative Commons : View from the gallery of the Pitt Rivers Museum Copyright David Hawgood and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence (Vote or comment on this photo)
General Pitt Rivers' collection of archaeological and ethnographic objects. An absolute treasure trove, if you like seeing old and weird stuff from around the World, then this museum is a must.

When I first entered this museum, my face lit up like a child going into a sweetshop. Fabulous.

Address: University Of Oxford South Parks Rd, OX1 3PP
Phone: 01865 270949
Opening Hours: Open 12pm and 4.30pm, Mon to Sat, Sun 2 - 4.30 pm. Closed 24, 25, 26 and 31 Dec and 1st Jan
Admission: Free
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Note: Major new book for free download - World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Re: Pitt Rivers Museum by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 May 2016
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Related blogs:

Dan Hicks: Antiquarianism 2.0
http://profdanhicks.blogspot.co.uk/

Excavating Pitt-Rivers: studying the archaeological collections made by Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
http://excavatingpittrivers.blogspot.co.uk/

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New book (free download) - World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum by Anonymous on Tuesday, 26 February 2013
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.

D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) 2013. World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress

The book is published simultaneously in hard copy, and online in open access form - http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/world.html and also at https://www.academia.edu/2293832/

The volume is the product of a collections-based research project - Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum -that sought to develop the first overview of the range and research potential of the Museum's world archaeology 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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Dr Dan Hicks MIfA, FSA
School of Archaeology/Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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Re: Pitt Rivers Museum by Sunny100 on Friday, 04 January 2013
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Check this out. Things To Do: Pitt Stop: Time Traveller. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. http://www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo/activity/pitt-stop-time-traveller/occurrence/210250
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