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Human and dog Bayesian dietary mixing models using bone collagen stable isotope ratios from ancestral Iroquoian sites in southern Ontario

Scientific Reports, 2023
Under the archaeological canine surrogacy approach (CSA) it is assumed that because dogs were reliant on humans for food, they had similar diets to the people with whom they lived.
John P. Hart
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Communicating Museum Collections Information Online

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2019
Cultural heritage institutions are spending considerable effort and resources to provide online access to their collection catalogues and collection management systems, usually through their institutional websites.
Ion Gil-Fuentetaja, M. Economou
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The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

PeerJ, 2020
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich communities of amateurs, students, and researchers at all stages of their careers ...
F. Bakker, A. Antonelli, J. Clarke, J. Cook, S. Edwards, P. Ericson, S. Faurby, N. Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, R. Gillespie, M. Irestedt, K. Lundin, E. Larsson, Pável Matos‐Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, G. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, N. Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, M. Källersjö   +20 more
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Colonization by tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus Skuse, 1894) of mountain areas over 600 m above sea level in the surroundings of Trento city, Northeast Italy

Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research
Originally from Southeast Asia, the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is now found almost everywhere in the world. Additionally, it spread throughout all of Northeastern Italy’s cities, including Trento, and settled in the Alpine regions.
Giulia Battistin, Alessandra Franceschini, Francesca Paoli, Valeria Lencioni   +3 more
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THE CERVANTES COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM [PDF]

The Library, 1908
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Art Investment Collections: A New Model for Museum Finance? [PDF]

, 2009
This article examines the conflicting views about whether to consider artwork as a financial asset and suggests a modified museum finance strategy that would not raise stakeholder concerns about selling art in the permanent collection.
Coslor, Erica
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Art, nature and mental health: assessing the biopsychosocial effects of a ‘creative green prescription’ museum programme involving horticulture, artmaking and collections

Perspectives in Public Health, 2020
Aims: To assess the biopsychosocial effects of participation in a unique, combined arts- and nature-based museum intervention, involving engagement with horticulture, artmaking and museum collections, on adult mental health service users.
L. Thomson, Nuala Morse, E. Elsden, Helen J. Chatterjee   +3 more
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De-growing museum collections for new heritage futures

International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS), 2018
This article focuses on curators’ frustrations with (what we call) ‘the profusion struggle’. Curators express the difficulty of collecting the material culture of everyday life when faced with vast existing collections.
J. Morgan, S. Macdonald
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The African Collection at Liverpool Museum [PDF]

African Arts, 1998
L'A. retrace l'histoire des collections ethnographiques africaines au Musee de Liverpool (Grande-Bretagne) depuis la fin du 19 eme siecle jusqu'a l'epoque contemporaine et dont l'essentiel est constitue par des masques en bois et des sculptures figuratives.
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Collections for people: museums' stored collections as a public resource [PDF]

, 2008
Collections in UK museums grew enormously in the latter half of the 20th century yet museum collections, mostly maintained at public expense, are perceived as an underused resource.
Keene, S, Monti, F, Stevenson, A
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