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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology submitted by Andy B : “An eye for beauty“ handaxe and flint display in the foyer of the museum (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Cambridge with a superb collection of British and world archaeology from the Palaeolithic onwards. Excellent collection of casts of the Palaeolithic "Venus" figurines. Wonderful Bronze and Iron Age galleries and a superb display of Anglo-Saxon jewellery and Viking weapons

The Prehistory Collection of the University of Cambridge

Address: Downing Street, CB2 3DZ
Phone: 01223 333516
Opening Hours:Opening hours Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30am to 4:30pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
Admission: Free
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Note: Rock-art digitally re-interpreted in "a pioneering international collaboration between film-makers, games designers and archaeologists" - free exhibition running until 23rd March
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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology submitted by Andy B : The upper archaeology and anthropology galleries (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology submitted by Creative Commons : Inside Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Copyright Sebastian Ballard and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology submitted by durhamnature : Panama pottery, from "Central America..." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology submitted by Thorgrim : Bronze Age golden torque found as a votive offering in Grundy Fen near Haddenham. Displayed in Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology submitted by Thorgrim : Display of Anglian jewelry in Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1 comment)

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Beat the Bronze Age: the microgold challenge, Tue 26th Jul 2016 by Andy B on Saturday, 16 July 2016
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Tue 26th Jul 2016, Hands-on activity

Tiny pieces of gold are on display in our new special exhibition, Hide & Seek: Looking for Children in the Past. These gold studs decorated the handle of a Bronze Age dagger found in a burial near Stonehenge. The studs are so small that archaeologists had to use magnifying glasses to locate them in the soil!

In a prehistoric world without magnifying glasses, archaeologists believe that only children and teenagers would have been able to position the studs on the handle. We are putting this theory to the test with our scaled up versions of the dagger. Join us to find out who will be the best at fixing the studs, adults or children?

Organiser: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
You do not need to book this event
This event is free to attend
Tue 26th Jul 2016 11:00-16:00

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Downing Street,
Cambridge CB2 3DZ
Tel: +44 (0)1223 333516

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Website: http://hideandseekexhibition.org.uk/

http://www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk/events/2221
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    Hide and seek: looking for children in the past, 16th-31st July 2016 by Andy B on Saturday, 16 July 2016
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    Sat 16th Jul 2016 - Sun 31st Jul 2016
    Periods: Prehistory, Saxons and Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts, 20th and 21st Century, Romans, Medieval, Georgians and Victorians

    Find glimpses of children's lives in East Anglia and across England from 1 million years ago to the 20th century, on display in the Li Ka Shing Gallery until January 2017.

    Children outnumbered adults for most of human history, yet they rarely appear in the stories that museums tell. This exhibition, the first on the topic, aims to redress the balance.

    Some objects on display will be familiar: a doll, a sledge, a baby’s feeding bottle. Other artefacts won’t look like children’s objects: pots with small fingerprints, a tiny handaxe made 400,000 years ago, goldwork as fine as a human hair. By looking carefully at all of this evidence, we will discover children’s lives and the part they played in society.

    The exhibition is funded by a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is a joint project between Cambridgeshire County Council and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

    https://www.facebook.com/MAACambridge
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    Website: http://www.hideandseekexhibition.org.uk/

    You do not need to book this event
    This event is free to attend
    Sat 16th Jul 2016 10:30-16:30 — Sun 31st Jul 2016 10:30-16:30
    The museum is open: Tuesday-Saturday 10:30-16:30. Sunday 12:00 noon-4.30pm

    Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
    Downing Street,
    Cambridge CB2 3DZ

    http://www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk/events/2222
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Digital rock-art from ancient Europe, a free exhibition running until 23rd March by Andy B on Monday, 11 March 2013
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Multimedia digital rock-art exhibition showing at the SOUTH LECTURE ROOM

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) Downing Street Cambridge CB23DZ from the 7th to 23rd March 2013. Opening hours Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30am to 4:30pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
free admission

“Pitoti” are the figures which are cut into rock rather than painted onto rock. The major single concentration is in the high Alpine valley of Valcamonica, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. The rock-art exists in abundance: at least 350,000 figures in Valcamonica alone. Above all – and this is why Valcamonica rock-art is genuinely unique – the figures present an autobiographical record.

This exhibition is EU funded and is a joint venture between archaeologists from Cambridge University (UK), the local research institute which has been studying Valcamonica figures for 50 years, the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici (I), and the digital graphics specialists from the University of Applied Sciences on St Pölten, (A). The show also includes a contribution from Bauhaus University in Weimar (D).

The Pitoti rock-art figures from Valcamonica, in Lombard Alps, are UNESCO world heritage and were conceived between the Copper Age and the Iron Age. They reappeared in the Middle Ages, after a hiatus in hte Roman period. The rock engravings are now being filmed, photographed, animated, and re-presented in the 21st centurywith new digital graphic technologies.

The aim of the exhibition is to explore the boundaries and build bridges between the world of archaeology and the world of film, digital humanities and computer vision.

Source:
maa.cam.ac.uk

More on the project at http://www.pitoti.org and see our guide to the rock art of Valcamonica.
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Woman and Cow Found In Anglo-Saxon Dig. by Sunny100 on Monday, 25 June 2012
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Woman and cow found in Cambridgeshire Anglo-Saxon dig. Click on the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18580332
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Re: Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology by Sunny100 on Saturday, 17 March 2012
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For more on this story click on http://uk.news.yahoo.com/-amazing-find--hailed-as-scientists-unearth-1-400-skeleton-of-one-of-britain-s-first-christians.html
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Re: Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology by Sunny100 on Friday, 16 March 2012
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Click on the link http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/16/cross-bed-anglo-saxon-grave
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