Archaeology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bound lecture notes of Ethelwyn Lemon
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1933
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 15 volumes of bound lecture notes that belonged to Ethelwyn Lemon. These notes were taken by Ethelwyn Lemon herself, or by other fellow female students, in the late 19th-early 20th century at the University of Edinburgh.
Notes of lectures on British history given by Sir Richard Lodge, taken down by Barbara M Craw. Edinburgh University, 1904. (4 vols)
Notes of...
Dates:
1892-1931
Lecture notes of Patricia Townsend
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1859
Content Description
This collection contains 10 files of largely complete lectures notes from Archaeology 1 & 2, Social Anthropology 1, 2 & 3, Fine Art 1, Metaphysics 1 and Computer Science 1. The files also contain essays, examination scripts, departmental tests, past papers, tutorial notes, personal notes on relevant books and articles, revision notes and typed departmental notes and course information. Two printed manuals entitled 'Notes on Imp Programming', part 1 and 2, are also...
Dates:
1974-1977
Papers of John Abercromby, 5th Lord Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-55
Scope and Contents
The collection holds a 19th century Irish manuscript with covering letter dated 1884. There are a large number of letters and postcards spanning the years 1881 to 1916. The collection also consists of notebooks on archaeological, philological and linguistic topics; drawings of archaeological artefacts; bundles of studies for The Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns; material on the tabulation of Finnish folk tales; printed items, notes, photographs of the Canary Islands; material including...
Dates:
before 1881-1916
Papers of Michael L. Ryder
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1702
Scope and Contents
Papers are sorted in box files by subject, on the following topics:- Ryder's book 'Sheep and Man', including original illustrations and correspondence (15 box files); textiles and weaving (3 box files);
- Sheep and wool in the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Middle East (3 box files);
- Skin biology, wool and other animal hair, wool colour (7 box files);
- St Kilda, Orkney and Shetland sheep (2 box files);
- Archaeological textiles, clothing, rugs and...
Dates:
c.1950s-2000s
Proceedings of a conference - Mycenaean Colloquium 1961 - held in Wisconsin 1961
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1174
Scope and Contents
The papers - the proceedings - contain the following pieces:
Pylos Tablet Un 1322 - Dr. John Chadwick, Downing College, Cambridge, pp.1-11
Le grafie del wau nella scrittura micenea - Prof. Carlo Gallavotti, Rome, pp.12-22
The origins of Minoan architecture - Prof. J. Walter Graham, University of Toronto, p.23
Overland communications in Greece during LH...
Dates:
1961
The Sir Walter Elliot Archive
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1860
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of seven Indian copper plate charters in Sanskrit recrding land grants, dating from the 5th to 16th centuries CE, and of three volumes containing rubbings of inscriptions from different regions of India, collected by Sir Walter Elliot throughout the 19th century.
Dates:
5th-19th centuries