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    Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory are mostly found on the upper floor of the museum, with a suite of galleries numbered from 38 to 51. Most of the collection...
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  • Digging For Britain is a British television series focused on last and current year archaeology. The series is made by 360 Production (now Rare TV) for...
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    Doggerland was an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the North Sea, that connected Britain to continental Europe. It was repeatedly exposed...
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  • Prehistory is the head of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory (previously known as the Department of Europe and Prehistory) 2003–2007: Leslie Webster...
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    Origins and Development of African Livestock: Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography – "Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock...
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  • British Museum describes how ethnography has developed at the British Museum. The ethnographical collection was originally linked to the Department of...
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    Thom, Brian (1996). "Stó:lo Culture – Ideas of Prehistory and Changing Cultural Relationships to the Land and Environment". Archived from the original on...
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    Prehistory of Ohio provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Ohio's recorded history. The ancient hunters, Paleo-Indians (13000 B.C...
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    beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC. Bell Beaker culture lasted in Britain from c. 2450 BC, with the appearance of single burial...
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  • English; Dark Age Britain Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces Miranda Aldhouse-Green (born 1947) British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic...
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    an area of Britain, or through a native British chieftain and his war band adopting Anglo-Saxon culture and language. The incidence of British Celtic personal...
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    National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland...
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    Lycurgus Cup (category Prehistory and Europe objects in the British Museum)
    British Museum for £20,000, £2,000 of which was donated by the Art Fund (then the NACF). The cup forms part of the museum's Department of Prehistory and...
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    London (redirect from London, Great Britain)
    many museums, galleries, libraries, and cultural venues, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, British Library...
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    from Algeria and Germany. Many other Turks have immigrated to Britain from parts of the southern Balkans where they form an ethnic and religious minority...
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    Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory were often of British/European Australian stock. The first known landing in Australia by Europeans was in...
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    Israel (redirect from State of Israel)
    Jewish homeland, which garnered British support during World War I. During the war, the Ottomans were defeated and the British Mandate for Palestine was set...
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    Nebra sky disc (category Art discs and ovals)
    are held by the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The two looters received sentences of four months and ten months, respectively...
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    began in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century, gave rise to radical economic, cultural and social change in Western Europe and eventually the...
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    V. Gordon Childe (category People associated with the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology)
    the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the...
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  • fits well with the single colonisation phase of Australia during prehistory.: 26–29  In the history of whaling, humans are believed to have begun whaling...
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    shipments to Britain, he was lured onto a British warship and exiled to St Vincent on charges of 'breach of treaty' and 'obstruction of trade'. The RNC...
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    of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain...
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    detailed and does not have a movable lower jaw. The British Museum catalogues the skull's provenance as "probably European, 19th century AD" and describes...
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    Canada (redirect from Etymology of Canada)
    established for all provinces of British North America east of Lake Superior by 1855. The signing of the Oregon Treaty by Britain and the United States in 1846...
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    of the Middle Paleolithic Art of the Upper Paleolithic British Museums' Department of Prehistory and Europe Cave paintings Caves in Cantabria Cave of...
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    Jill Cook (category Employees of the British Museum)
    (born 1954) is a British museum curator who is the acting Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory at the British Museum. She curates the...
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    The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from...
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    Prehistoric Britain – Prehistoric human occupation of Britain Neolithic British Isles – British, Irish and Manx history c. 4100–2500 BC Bell Beaker culture –...
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  • Iron Age (redirect from Iron age Europe)
    the final Age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progressing to protohistory (before written history). In...
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