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, 2021 "In many ways, the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic Wars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century mark the start of a certain relationship between museums, especially national ones, and state aggrandisement.
Hill, Kate 1969-
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract In a large sample of adult crab‐eating macaques, we quantified sexual dimorphism in size, shape, and covariance across the whole skull and among anatomical regions of the cranium and mandible. All regions showed significant mean sex differences, but the magnitude of size and shape dimorphism varied substantially.
Andrea Cardini, Paul O'Higgins
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Nature, 1920 I CORDIALLY welcome the suggestion in the leading article in NATURE of March 11 that the Natural History and other science museums should be placed under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. For this Department to take over the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Museum of Practical Geology (and the Geological Survey), and ...
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Maximum Intervention: Renewal of a Maori Waka by George Nuku and National Museums Scotland
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2012 National Museums Scotland (NMS) has in its collections a Mäori war canoe (A.UC.767) or 'Waka Taua 'from New Zealand'.' The 'Waka' had been held in the Museum stores for many years and due to its incompleteness and poor state of repair had not been on ...
Charles Stable
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QR codes can enrich a visit to a museum
, 2023 Some museums want to ban them, while others see them as a low-cost way to connect visitors with ...
Coulson, Adam
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González +5 more
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Museums as playful venues in the leisure society [PDF]
, 2012 Our focus in this manuscript is on the ‘playful’ aspect of cultural consumption in the context of the museum. We discuss how museum visitors can experience moments of ‘play’ through engagement with the museum exhibits.
Jafari, Aliakbar, Taheri, Babak
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Arhinolemur scalabrinii† Ameghino, 1898 was originally described as a strepsirrhine primate (Mammalia) but has been recognized as an anostomid fish since 2012. It remains the only extinct anostomid species known from complete cranial material.
Karen M. Panzeri +8 more
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Redescription of the Triassic cynodont Cistecynodon parvus and reassessment of its phylogeny
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Cynodontia is an important subclade of Therapsida that first occurred in the late Permian. It includes extinct subclades which are the non‐mammaliaform cynodonts and Mammaliaformes, with the latter ultimately giving rise to crown mammals. The systematics of non‐mammaliaform cynodonts has been extensively studied and is relatively well‐resolved,
Erin S. Lund +4 more
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"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.Art indexArt and archaeology technical abstractsArchitectural periodicals index"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890 ...
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