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ISBN: 9780861591749
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 174
The British Museum's collection of Japanese coins is one of the best outside Japan. Many of the coins were originally in the collection of Japan's renowned numismatist and collector, Kutsuki Masatsuna (1750-1802), and were acquired by the Briti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591732
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 173
Twelve papers by leading international scholars on the theme of the cultural, regional and personal identity of the Etruscans. The volume celebrates the originality of the Etruscan character manifest in its richly varied workshop production, an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591534
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 153
10,000 years ago, late Ice Age and early post-glacial communities moved through the Kennet Valley to the Thames, following game and taking advantage of sheltered positions to make their camps. Favourable geological conditions in the neighbourh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591169
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 116
Twenty-nine papers which aim to pool the insights provided by research carried out by conservation scientists in order to improve conservation techniques in museums. Papers include: The impact of conservation science in the British Museum ( Su... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591244
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 50
This volume is the first comprehensive technical history of the production of zinc and brass. It describes the inception and technical development of the processes by which zinc and brass were made at various centres around the world, together ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591077
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 107
Since time immemorial, inhabitants of the Western Grasslands of Cameroon in west Africa have been evolving an educational system devoid of literacy. Teaching focused on traditional crafts, including weaving, stitching of traditional dress, carv... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591190
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 119
The text published here, for the first time, with translation and commentary, is a work attributed to Shenoute, the 4th-5th century abbot of the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The work is based on the theme `God never turns his face from those... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591183
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 118
A transcription of a day-long seminar held at the British Museum in 1995 to discuss aspects of display at the museum. Invited guests examined specific displays and were joined by many of the staff and other curators. A stimulating discussion en... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591053
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Volume: 105
Text of the first William Fagg Memorial Lecture, a series founded to commemorate the African interests of the BM's Keeper of Ethnography between 1969 and 1974. The title refers to a Yorùbá proverb that suggests that we look beyond what is easil... .... Learn More