Archaeology
Here you will find all the resources identified by our tutors as useful for the study of this topic, arranged in ascending alphabetical order. Browse the tiles and descriptions to discover if there are any resources of interest to you, or click on any of the other keywords to see resources sorted by alternative topics.
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"BAD ARCHAEOLOGY" |
“Bad Archaeology: exposing frauds, misconceptions and distortions.” This site maintains that “Bad Archaeology is all around us. Many of its ideas... |
Plato, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Timaeus, Critias, Archaeology | view |
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Africa: Cradle Of Humanity |
As Charles Darwin rightly predicted, Africa is the cradle of humanity, not only of our own species but also of the very first members of our... |
Africa, Archaeology, behavior, Evolution, hominin | view |
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ARTHUR EVANS: 'THE PALACE OF MINOS' |
This link takes you to a digital version of SirArthur Evans' monumntal publication The Palace of Minos on the website of Heidelberg... |
Greek culture, Arthur Evans, Palace of Minos, Minoan, Minoans, Crete, Archaeology | view |
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[Plato, Timaeus 21e] Critias replied, ‘In Egypt, at the apex of the Delta, where the stream of the River Nile divides, there is an... |
Atlantis, Plato, Sais, Egypt, Solon, Herodotus, Critias, Timaeus, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience | view |
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Britanni: Continuing Education Resources - Early Medieval Britain |
Tutor's Website, containing additional resources relating to Early Medieval Western Britain |
Archaeology, History, Early Medieval, Early Middle Ages, Early Christian, Late Antiquity, Dark Age, Welsh History, Celtic Studies, 5th century, 6th century, 7th century, Late Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Wessex, Wales, Cornwall, Devon, Wiltshire, Dorset, Avon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Hillforts | view |
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British Agricultural Revolution 1600-1870 |
Recent historical research has challenged previous ideas about the timing and nature of a British agricultural revolution when agricultural... |
Archaeology, Agriculture, Agricultural history | view |
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ERYTHEIA: THE 'RED LAND' |
Erytheia, the sea-circled mythical ‘Red Land’ located out in the far west beyond the mighty earth-encircling river Oceanus, occassionally excites... |
Atlantis, Erytheia, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience | view |
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From Civilisation to Barbarism? Western Britain in the Early Middle Ages |
Did collapse, crisis, and ‘Celtic’ culture characterise post-Roman western Britain? How Roman was ‘British’ society during the 5th - 7th centuries... |
Archaeology, Early Medieval, Dark Age, Celtic, Roman, Hillforts, 5th century, 6th century, 7th century, Early Middle Ages, Early Christian, History, Late Antiquity, Cultural Identity, Ethnic Identity, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic Studies, Social Identity, Material Culture, Household Archaeology, Romano-British, Byzantine, Migration Period | view |
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HERODOTUS ON ECBATANA |
One major city in the Persian Empire that Herodotus describes, and which might have had a bearing on Plato’s description of Atlantis-ville, was... |
Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Ecbatana, Ancient Greek, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Ancient history | view |
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HERODOTUS ON EGYPT |
The Greek historian Herodotus, produced a wonderfully engaging account of his historia (= ‘inquiry’) into the origins and events of... |
Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Egypt, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Ancient Greek, Ancient history | view |