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The Relevance of the Past – Doris Chapman’s Facial Reconstructions in the 1930s.

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

We were delighted to welcome Cherwell School student Jack Evans on a sixth-form work placement here in the archives. One of his assignments was to catalogue a box from the Stuart Piggott archive. Here are his thoughts on what he … Continue reading →

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Schliemann’s ‘Troja’: from Ohio to Oxford

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

Books are a vehicle for transmitting information through the written word, but they are also objects, things, material culture. Like other objects, they are created, have ‘lives’, and will, eventually, ‘die’. They can be bought and sold, possessed, hidden, cached, … Continue reading →

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Jacobsthal’s Dissertation

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

by Francesca Anthony Over the last few weeks of volunteering in the Institute of Archaeology’s Archive, I have been attempting to sort the 1908 dissertation of the scholar Paul Jacobsthal. Jacobsthal came to Oxford in the mid 1930s after the … Continue reading →

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News from a volunteer

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

  Several years ago, when we were just beginning work on the archives at the Institute of Archaeology, we were lucky enough to have the volunteer help of Marissa Kings. Marissa was invaluable, working tirelessly to put some of the … Continue reading →

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Man in the White Hat

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

Over the past two weeks we have enjoyed the company of Alice Jaspars, a second year undergraduate who followed up excavation in Cyprus over the summer with a fieldwork placement in the archive, finding out more about the history of … Continue reading →

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