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Archaeologia Cambrensis

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Archaeologia Cambrensis is a Welsh archaeological and historical scholarly journal published annually by the Cambrian Archaeological Association.[a] It contains historical essays, excavation reports, and book reviews, as well as society notes and accounts of field visits. The journal has included “much valuable material on the manuscripts, genealogy, heraldry, toponymy, folklore and literature of Wales”.[2][3][4] Contents 1Scope 2Publication history 3Abstracting and indexing 4Editors 5Images 6Notes 7References 8External links Scope[edit] The

Antiquity (journal)

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Antiquity is an academic journal dedicated to the subject of archaeology. It publishes six issues a year, covering topics worldwide from all periods. Its current editor is Robert Witcher, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham. Since 2015, the journal has been published by Cambridge University Press. Antiquity was founded by the British archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford in 1927. The journal is owned

Anti-Americanism

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Anti-Americanism also called anti-American sentiment is prejudice, fear or hatred of the United States government, its foreign policy, or the Americans in general. Political scientist Brendon O’Connor of the United States Studies Centre in Australia suggests that “anti-Americanism” cannot be isolated as a consistent phenomenon, since the term originated as a rough composite of stereotypes, prejudices, and criticisms which evolved into more politically-based criticisms. French scholar Marie-France

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?

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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? was a popular television game show which ran from 1952 to 1959. In the show, a panel of archeologists, art historians, and natural history experts were asked to identify interesting objects or artifacts from museums from Britain and abroad, and other faculties, including university collections. The quiz show was presented by the BBC, continuing a long history of bringing contributors to archaeology into

Ancient India (journal)

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Ancient India was a bi-annual and later, annual bulletin published by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1946 to 1966. It replaced the Annual Report that had previously been published by the Survey. Established in January 1946 by Sir Mortimer Wheeler during his tenure as Director-General of the ASI, Ancient India was published with an aim to “interest the educated Indian public in current

Amphora

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An amphora is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land or sea. The size and shape have been determined from at least as early as the Neolithic Period. Amphorae were used

Allies of World War I

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The Allies of World War I or Entente Powers were a coalition of countries led by France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan and the United States against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and their colonies during the First World War (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the major European powers were divided between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente was made up of France, Britain, and Russia. The Triple Alliance

Algiers

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Algiers is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city’s population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145 and in 2011 was estimated to be around 3,500,000. An estimate puts the population of the larger metropolitan city to be around 5,000,000. Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north-central portion of Algeria. Algiers is situated on the west

Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

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Major General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George; born Prince Alexander of Teck; 14 April 1874 – 16 January 1957, was a British Army commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and as Governor General of Canada. Prince Alexander was born in London to the Duke and Duchess of Teck and

Aden

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Aden is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some 170 km (110 mi) east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. Aden’s natural harbour lies in the crater of a dormant volcano, which now forms a peninsula joined to the mainland by a low isthmus. This