The Cave of Ali Tappeh and the Epi-Palaeolithic in N.E. Iran

1969 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 385-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. M. McBurney ◽  
Rosemary Payne
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Geological Past ◽  
Iranian Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Raised Beaches

In the 1964 Proceedings a preliminary report was published of an initial sounding at this site, discovered and named (after a nearby village) in 1962. The main excavation, in the summer of 1964, was undertaken with the kind permission and co-operation of the Iranian Government and authorities, and with the financial assistance of grants from the British Academy and the Crowther Beynon Fund of the University of Cambridge. Subsequent laboratory analysis has been carried out mainly in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Cambridge.Since the geographical situation of the site forms an essential factor in its interpretation, the main features may be repeated here for convenience. The cave is eroded in the base of an escarpment which follows the foot of the Elburz range where it bounds the coastal plain along the southern shores of the present Caspian. The mountains rise abruptly in an impressive series of ridges to over 10,000 ft; the plain extends to the north to the modern sea-shore now some 8 miles away from the site and rapidly retreating. It is known however that in the recent geological past this situation has varied greatly. At times the sea lapped the base of the hills leaving traces in the form of escarpments and raised beaches, while at others it retreated scores of miles to the north and may even have disappeared altogether.

XLI. Observations upon some Celtic Remains, lately discovered by the Public Road leading from London to Cambridge, near to the Village of Sawston, distant seven miles from the University, by Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge. Communicated by the Rev. Thomas Kerrich, M.A. F.S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 340-343
Author(s):  
Edward Daniel Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
Public Road ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Temple

It is not attaching too high a degree of importance to the study of Celtic antiquities, to maintain, that, owing to the attention now paid to it in this country, a light begins to break in upon that part of ancient history, which, beyond every other, seemed to present a forlorn investigation. All that relates to the aboriginal inhabitants of the north of Europe, would be involved in darkness but for the enquiries now instituted respecting Celtic sepulchres. From the information already received, concerning these sepulchres, it may be assumed, as a fact almost capable of actual demonstration, that the mounds, or barrows, common to all Great Britain, and to the neighbouring continent, together with all the tumuli fabled by Grecian and by Roman historians as the tombs of Giants, are so many several vestiges of that mighty family of Titan-Celts who gradually possessed all the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and who extended their colonies over all the countries where Cyclopéan structures may be recognized; whether in the walls of Crotona, or the temple at Stonehénge; in the Cromlechs of Wales, or the trilithal monuments of Cimbrica Chersonesus; in Greece, or in Asia-Minor; in Syria, or in Egypt. It is with respect to Egypt alone, that an exception might perhaps be required; but history, while it deduces the origin of the worship of Minerva, at Sais, from the Phrygians, also relates of this people, that they were the oldest of mankind. The Cyclopéan architecture of Egypt may therefore be referred originally to the same source; but, as in making the following Observations brevity must be a principal object, it will be necessary to divest them of every thing that may seem like a Dissertation; and confine the statement, here offered, to the simple narrative of those facts, which have led to its introduction.

James Thomas Wilson, 1861 - 1945

1949 ◽  
Vol 6 (18) ◽  
pp. 643-660
Keyword(s):  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Postgraduate Study ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Study And Teaching ◽  
Intellectual Capacity ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
Thomas Wilson ◽  
The University ◽  
Second Period

Professor J. T. Wilson, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Sydney, 1890 to 1920 and in the University of Cambridge, 1920 to 1934, died on 2 September 1945, at his house in Cambridge, after a short illness, at the age of eighty-four. Through his death, anatomical science in this country has lost one of its foremost exponents and leaders, a great and inspiring teacher and a man of striking personality and outstanding intellectual capacity. The Anatomical Society is the poorer by the loss of its oldest surviving member, who, though nurtured in the old school, was ever in the vanguard of progress towards the newer conceptions which dominate the anatomy of to-day, and his colleagues and old pupils here and in Australia mourn the passing of a great and good man, who had won their high esteem and affectionate regard, for he had a great gift for friendship and was one of the most generous and helpful of men. He himself, speaking in Cambridge in 1941, described his life-span as falling naturally into three periods. I quote his own words : ‘The first of twentysix years includes childhood, adolescence, undergraduate training and postgraduate study and teaching, in “the grey metropolis of the North’’ ever dear to my memory. The second period of over thirty-three years was spent in the University of Sydney where for a generation I occupied the Chair of Anatomy. The third period embraces the twenty-one years of my life here in Cambridge. In each of these periods, I have had the high privilege of sharing in the teaching and other activities of academic life.’ James Thomas Wilson, an only son, was born on 14 April 1861, at Moniaive, a small village in Dumfriesshire, where his father, Thomas Wilson, was schoolmaster and a learned and cultured man. From him he received his early education as well as his preparation for the entrance examination to the University.

Augite from Nishigatake, Japan

1921 ◽  
Vol 19 (93) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Ryōichi Ōhashi
Keyword(s):  
Kind Permission ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University

The following study was carried out in the Mineralogical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge upon specimens which were brought by myself from Japan. My hearty thanks are offered to Professor W. J. Lewis and Dr. A. Hutchinson for their kind permission to use the laboratory and the instruments, and for their constant help throughout my work.

The Institutional Façade: Architectural Recording at the Old Schools, University of Cambridge

1999 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 213-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Evans ◽  
Joshua Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University

The results of architectural recording within the North Range of the University's Old Schools are described. Argued to have stood independently as a hall in the later fourteenth century, the progressive development of the Schools' quadrangle, and extensive alterations to it – culminating in Wright's neo-classical facade of 1754–58 – reflects upon the historical development of academic architecture. The prestigious display of the complex in the mid eighteenth century, facilitated through the mass levelling of domestic properties, equally tells of the institutional ‘realization’ of the University.

The Madra Çay Delta Archaeological Project, First Preliminary Report

1996 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 167-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Lambrianides ◽  
N. Spencer ◽  
S. Vardar ◽  
H. Gümüş
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Sandy Beaches ◽  
The South ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
The North ◽  
Sand Spit ◽  
Archaeological Project

In 1995 a new series of multi-disciplinary investigations were initiated by the authors into diachronic human occupation of the coastal plain at Altınova, between Ayvalık and Dikili on the Aegean coast of northwest Turkey (Fig. 1). Altınova lies approximately halfway between the much better-known (and certainly more intensively investigated) archaeological regions of Troy to the north and Bayraklı/Izmir to the south (Fig. 1). Through the plain flows the Madra Çay, and during the Holocene the river's depositional activity has created a large delta clearly visible on most maps as a projection outward into the Lesbos Channel (also known as the Mytilene/Midilli Strait), with the port of Mytilene and the marina of Thermi lying directly opposite (20 km. away) on the island of Lesbos (Fig. 1, Pl. XXII(a)). Altınova's iskele, located in a sand-spit which forms a natural marina, has developed into a modern holiday resort with 5 km. or more of holiday villas along its sandy beaches.

Willard Wentzel's account of the Mackenzie River

Polar Record ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (173) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beau Riffenburgh ◽  
Clive Holland ◽  
Richard Davis
Keyword(s):  
Native Peoples ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
Mackenzie River

AbstractFollowing his return from participating in John Franklin's first overland expedition (1819–1822), Willard Wentzel, a clerk for the North West Company, produced a map of the Mackenzie River and a brief account of its geography, native peoples, and history and significance as it related to the North West Company. This map and the account, which is one of the few early descriptions of the Mackenzie River area, are held in the Royal Commonwealth Society Papers at the University of Cambridge. They have not previously been published.

Stucco Decorations at Baia

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 24-51
Author(s):  
Roger Ling
Keyword(s):  
Kind Permission ◽  
Progressive Deterioration ◽  
Full Support ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Roman Italy ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

In my earlier paper on the ‘Stanze di Venere’ (written in 1973), I referred to the progressive deterioration of the stucco and other decorations in the Roman remains at Baia. The following pages are an attempt to provide a full record of the Baian stucco-work not covered in the first article. The idea of compiling this record originated with Dottssa. Maria Elena Bertoldi and received the full support of Prof. Alfonso De Franciscis; while the actual drawings were begun in 1973 by Miss Shelagh Rixon and completed, with further visits to the site for checking in 1974 and 1975, by Dr. Lesley A. Ling. To all of these and to our sponsors (the University of Manchester and the Faculty of Classics in the University of Cambridge) I am deeply indebted. Since the drawings were completed, the task of studying stucco decoration in Roman Italy has been greatly simplified by the pioneer-work of Dr. Harald Mielsch of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, who has compiled a major corpus of surviving material and attempted to establish a detailed chronology. It only remains for me to provide a commentary on the drawings, to discuss the architectural contexts, and to enlarge upon or modify Dr. Mielsch's conclusions regarding the Baian stucco-work. The various decorations will be dealt with one by one, and the positions of all but two of them are shown on Fig. 1, which has been adapted, by kind permission of Dottssa. Bertoldi, from one of the plans executed for her volume in the Forma Italiae series.

Excavations at Sos Höyük, 1995: Second Preliminary Report

1996 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 27-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Sagona ◽  
Mustafa Erkmen ◽  
Claudia Sagona ◽  
Ian Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Magnetic Survey ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
The North ◽  
The University ◽  
Obsidian Source

Archaeological investigations this year at Sos Höyük, carried out by the University of Melbourne and Erzurum Museum, took place in the summer, between 2 June and 3 August. The aims for the 1995 season included activities both on the mound and off-site. Among the former objectives, was the need to expose further the Medieval settlement on the summit of the mound, and the burnt building of the Hellenistic period in trenches L14 and L13. Excavation was also required in the lower northeast trenches to clarify the depositions of the late third to second millennium B.C. In addition to these largely horizontal operations, we commenced an independent vertical sounding in J14 to obtain a immediate guide to the sequence of Iron Age deposits.The intensive field survey of the site environs continued, as did the search for the obsidian source in the hilltops around Pasinler. A detailed palaeoecological study of the region was initiated this year. Information from promising pollen cores taken at various altitudes in the Kargapazarı Dağları, the mountain range immediately to the north of the site, will no doubt complement the faunal and botanical data from the excavations. We also conducted a magnetic survey of the ancient cemeteries surrounding the site to better define their boundaries, but human and animal disturbance often made it difficult to discriminate between burials, pits and burrows of comparable magnetic intensity. Finally, there was a concerted effort to organize and establish a new exhibition at Erzurum Museum covering the campaigns at both Büyüktepe Höyük and Sos Höyük.

The Cambridge excavations at La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey—a preliminary report

1971 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. M. McBurney ◽  
P. Callow
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Shelter Site ◽  
Research Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Active Assistance

The following is a preliminary report on excavations undertaken at this site under the aegis of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Cambridge. The work was carried out during a number of seasons over the past ten years, partly as a research project and partly as field training for third year and research students under the direction of C.B.M.McB. To P.C. fell the eventual task of collating and summarizing the extensive stratigraphical observations made by us and by previous excavators, and doing the same for the pollen samples and palaeontological data. Responsibility for the report as a whole is shared, but many others too numerous to thank separately at this stage have contributed basically to the collection and analysis of field and laboratory data. It is hoped that the full results after further field work will provide the material for a detailed monograph. The work would of course have been impossible but for the kind permission of the Société Jersiaise and the active assistance of many of its members on numerous occasions.The site, the largest and most productive cave or rock-shelter site in the British Isles, was originally made famous by the discovery of a rich Mousterian industry, fauna, and eventually fossil traces of Neanderthal man at the turn of the century.

scholarly journals The Bay of Kiladha Project (Argolid, Greece): Bridging East and West

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Birchler Emery ◽  
Julien Beck ◽  
Julien Beck ◽  
Despina Koutsoumba ◽  
Despina Koutsoumba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The North ◽  
Global Sea Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Joint Research Program

The project, a joint research program between the University of Geneva, under the aegis of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, and the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, aims at finding traces of prehistoric human activity in a small bay of the southern Argolid, near the Franchthi Cave, a major prehistoric site used from 40,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago. For most of these 35,000 years, because of global sea-level change in prehistory, the Bay of Kiladha was in fact a small coastal plain, where the sedentary farmers of the Neolithic period had probably their village.Research currently focuses on two parts of the bay: the Franchthi sector, close to the Cave (submerged Neolithic village) and the Lambayanna sector, just a few hundred meters to the north of Franchthi Cave (HA II fortified settlement).

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