Sentences with phrase «archaeological collection»

A minute's walk from the lively Finikoudes Beach, this vibrant hotel with a contemporary facade is a 5 - minute walk from an archaeological collection at the Pierides Museum.

Located in the Old Town, it hosts an archaeological collection of more than 1200 Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Slavonic artefacts dating back to the 5th century BC, and an archaeological collection of over 400 exhibits.

The museum opened up in 1999 to give the public to opportunity to explore the great archaeological collection amassed by the Countess.

(Left to right): TOM PILSTON / EYEVINE / REDUX; CURTIS MAREAN / ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY; BAVARIAN STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION

Meanwhile, 42 eminent archaeologists and paleoanthropologists from the United States and Europe signed a letter demanding that Italy's minister of the cultural heritage move the archaeological collection to a new location and create an international scientific panel to assess the effects of the contamination.

The core of the archaeological collections consists of artifacts, faunal remains, and other materials from field surveys and excavation on the Northern Channel Islands, Santa Barbara mainland coast, and adjacent back country by David Banks Rogers (curator 1923 - 1938) and Phil C. Orr (curator 1938 - 1968).

The archaeological collections, which include approximately 75,000 specimens from 200 sites in the greater Santa Barbara area and the Northern Channel Islands.

The Museum Anthropology Department houses the most important archaeological collections for understanding prehistoric cultural change in south - central coastal California, especially the Santa Barbara Channel region.

The Museum is a repository for archaeological collections from environmental impact studies and actively curates collections from Channel Islands National Park and Los Padres National Forest.

With fine art from the medieval period to the present day and internationally significant archaeological collections from all the major ancient civilisations, the Ashmolean offers all the heft of a major museum within a fairly compact framework.

Hall expands on the «hunting lodge» that she created for Documenta 13 in 2012 with a collection of sculptures based on the forms of indigenous folk art and archaeological collections.

Not exact matches

In addition to select artifacts from the 36,000 - object Fort Orange archaeology collection, the exhibition will include film footage from the 1970 excavation and information gleaned from four decades of historical and archaeological research, including renderings of the fort by historical artist Len Tantillo.

Some maps remain under wraps, kept in privately held collections by the explorers themselves because they point the way to archaeological and paleobiological treasures that have been protected by the waters for thousands of years.

The cave, which has many archaeological layers spanning 100,000 years, has yielded both Neandertal and modern human stone tools and a small collection of hominin bones too fragmentary to be identified.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

It is illegal to remove archaeological samples from Egypt, so the researchers dated items from museum collections in Europe and North America, as well as freshly excavated seed samples from Tell es - Sakan on the Gaza Strip, which was an outpost of ancient Egypt.

Missing piece To build its collection in the 19th century, the British Museum gathered crates of clay tablets by methods that would not be considered scientifically sound today; namely, buying artifacts that had been dug up around Babylon and Uruk without any archaeological context.

The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the archaeological site of Abusir el - Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt, from two anthropological collections hosted and curated at the University of Tuebingen and the Felix von Luschan Skull Collection at the Museum of Prehistory of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz.

Such cuts are especially troubling, MacDonald says, at a time when the world is condemning the destruction of priceless museum collections and archaeological sites in Syria.

«The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,» says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale.

In the late 70's, however, archaeological evidence found in Chekinag Province dispelled this belief when researchers excavated a massive collection of carbonized grains, straw, earthen cooking utensils and evidence of advanced wooden huts.

The collection is marked by pewter coins set in brass, reminiscent of treasured archaeological finds.

You can have a fascinating cultural experience at the Landscape Museum in Verbania Pallanza, which was established to honour the incredible beauty of Lake Maggiore, has a huge collection of artistic delights including sculptures, paintings and archaeological discoveries.

There is also a small archaeological museum that displays a large collection of pre-Columbian art and figurines.

ETHNOGRAPHY Holdings include the world's foremost collection of rare Chumash basketry and fiberwork consisting of some 100 archaeological specimens and 44 ethnographic pieces.

His work to preserve important archaeological sites and collections has been recognized formally by the Society for California Archaeology, which awarded him their Mark Harrington Award for Conservation Archaeology in 2002.

ARCHAEOLOGY Collections include approximately 75,000 archaeological specimens from 200 sites encompassing the Santa Barbara area and the Northern Channel Islands representing all major periods of prehistory, from excavations by David Banks Rogers and Phil C. Orr during 1923 - 1968.

John R. Johnson (curator 1986 - present) has built a good comparative faunal collection, and the department serves as a repository for curation of archaeological material from Channel Islands National Park, Los Padres National Forest, and various cultural resource management projects.

The Museum collection comprises ethnographic, historic, archaeological and archival material of the northern Vancouver Island area, specifically from Oyster River east to Desolation Sound and north to Rivers Inlet, including off - shore islands; west to Gold River and beyond to the outer coast at Estevan Point, and north to the tip of Vancouver Island.

The city's breath - taking castle was intended for use as a Norman Royal Palace, but today this beautiful building serves as an excellent interactive museum and gallery whose treasures include important archaeological finds, fine artworks, costumes and textiles and collections and displays covering Norfolk's local, natural, social and regimental history.

Most of the main cultural sights on Ibiza are concentrated in the island's beautiful capital, Ibiza Town, which has a beautiful old quarter, the Dalt Vila, to discover, plus a clutch of fascinating museums, including the outstanding archaeological museum and a small but excellent collection of contemporary art.

COLLECTIONS The museum presents a collection of 250 original objects between stone, metal, ceramic, bone and others; a result of archaeological research in the recent decades in the Inca City of Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail.

The rare collection of artefacts includes huge wooden boats, weapons such as daggers, swords and cannons and other archaeological digs.

Continue to the archaeological complex of Pisac, formed of a collection of remains of Incan dwellings, temples and terracing.

The abundance of process - based works connects the artists in the collection to an artistic legacy that characterized much of the art of the late 1960s, while the archaeological impetuses point to a prevailing tendency by artists to operate in an investigative mode, mining complex ideas of the artwork's site and temporality.

Fetish, 2016, presented in the first floor galleries, delves further into the stratified relationships between culture, value, and material by focusing on Sigmund Freud's personal collection of archaeological statues and artefacts.

The superb permanent collections hold Old Master paintings, British art (including work by Bristol School artists), Eastern art, ceramics, silverware and glassware, Egyptian mummies and Assyrian reliefs, archaeological artefacts and natural history exhibits.

It functioned as an eclectic multi-disciplinary museum, showcasing a vast collection of taxidermies, archaeological artifacts, botany, arts and crafts, Judaica, etc., a collection which served primarily as a source of inspiration and practical knowledge for the students.

The works selected for this exhibition rely on retrospective, historiographical strategies, acts of excavation, collection or preservation, and an interest in archaeological methodologies.

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Venice is an archaeological museum on St Mark's Square which holds a notable collection of Greek and Roman sculpture

Fusions of metal, ivory, stone and glass, those objects are amalgamations of archaeological artefacts that were melted together and totally transformed during the early stages of Lebanon's 1975 — 90 civil war, when militiamen occupied Beirut's National Museum, shelled the city and, in the process, set fire to a storage area where part of the collection had been moved.

Capitoline Museums, Rome Comprises a group of archaeological and art Museums in Rome, containing a major collection of antiquities and Italian sculptures.

Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China will showcase 130 works of art, drawn from the collections of 14 art museums and archaeological institutes across the Shaanxi province in China.

The works from the selected practitioners often evoke retrospective or historiographical strategies in order to explore the themes, excavation, collection and preservation, alongside an awareness of archaeological methodologies.

The imposing Santa Barbara Castle overlooks a city which is home to two cathedrals, streets full of traditional Spanish houses and a variety of museums with collections of fine art and archaeological finds.

Responsible for handling feature excavation, performing artifact collection, planning view and profile drawings, and other archaeological investigations.

Edinburgh, Scotland About Blog Discover the diversity of their collections, from art and design treasures to groundbreaking scientific inventions, archaeological finds and iconic Scottish objects, wonders of the natural world and artefacts from around the world.

Summary of Qualifications * Participated in an archaeological field school with Washington State University at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site * Exceedingly proficient in research, data collection and management, and field excavation * Very skilled in scientifically analyzing data in field and laboratory environments * Strong military work ethic as evidenced by being awarded Soldier of the Month twice * Maintained a 3...