Browsing by Author "Shortland, Andrew J."

The analysis of late Bronze Age glass from Nuzi and the question of the origin of glass-making

Shortland, Andrew J.; Kirk, Susanna; Eremin, Katherine; Degryse, Patrick; Walton, M. (Wiley, 2017-10-25)

This paper re‐analyses a considerable corpus of glass from the Late Bronze Age site of Nuzi, found near Kirkuk in Iraq. SEM–WDS and Sr and Nd isotopic analysis were applied, in addition to cataloguing the glass. The work ...

Ancient Biographies: Trace element analysis to investigate provenance and transportation mechanism of Late Bronze Age glass

Kemp, Victoria; McDonald, A.; Shortland, Andrew J. (Equinox Publishing, 2019-05-16)

LA-ICPMS analysis was carried out on a scaraboid blue glass bead (Hunterian Museum Glasgow, D.1921.39) excavated from Tomb 27 in Gurob, in the Southern Fayum region of Egypt. Gurob is known to have been the site of a ‘harem ...

Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis

Dillis, Sarah; van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Leeming, Peter; Shortland, Andrew J.; Gobejishvili, Gela; Abramishvili, Mikheil; Degryse, Patrick (Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-13)

Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decolouriser) and metallurgy (either as an alloying element or as a pure metal). Despite this ubiquity, antimony production has ...

Ballistic extremity wounding : quantifying tissue damage associated with military firearms

Stevenson, Tom (2018)

Gunshot wounding (GSW) is often the second most common mechanism of injury after explosive in war. With a large proportion of survivors typically suffering with extremity wounds, the clinical burden is often substantial. ...

A bioarchaeological and historical analysis of scurvy in eighteenth and nineteenth century England

Sinnott, C. A. (2015-03-03)

The identification of metabolic diseases is a crucial aspect of osteoarchaeological analysis and of paleopathological studies. This study is specifically concerned with the study of scurvy and its bony manifestation. This ...

Chapter 14: Ceramics

Shortland, Andrew J.; Degryse, Patrick (Cambridge University Press, 2019-12-31)

Ceramics are the most abundant surviving material on almost all Neolithic and later archaeological sites. Their abundance and ubiquity is the result of several factors. Firstly, the raw materials that are used to create ...

The characterisation and provenancing of ancient ochres

Attard Montalto, Nicola (Cranfield University, 2010-04)

Characterising Chinese Ru ware in the Sir Percival David collection at the British Museum using handheld XRF analysis

Delbey, Thomas; Harrison Hall, Jessica; Sheaf, Colin; Shortland, Andrew J. (Elsevier, 2023-09-07)

Ru ware is a very rare and highly prized stoneware from the end of the Northern Song period of China (960–1127 CE). Stylistic and art historical work by Regina Krahl (2021) suggests that a brush washer in the Sir Percival ...

The composition and technology of polychrome enamels on Chinese ruby‐backed plates identified through nondestructive micro‐X‐ray fluorescence

Norris, Dana; Braekmans, Dennis; Domoney, Kelly; Shortland, Andrew J. (Wiley, 2020-03-12)

This research presents non‐destructive analyses of Chinese enamelled copper and porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels. This study utilises two key, high‐value art works with complex enamelling in the collection of ...

The dating and provenance of glass artefacts excavated from the ancient city of Tall Zirā‛a, Jordan

Kemp, Victoria; Schmidt, Katharina; Brownscombe, Will; Soennecken, Katja; Vieweger, Dieter; Häser, Jutta; Shortland, Andrew J. (Wiley, 2020-06-29)

The first deliberate manufacture of glass occurs in the sixteenth century BC, although the origin of the material is still a focus of debate; Egypt or Mesopotamia being the most likely innovator. The conventional approach ...

The dating and provenance of glass fragments from the site of Serabit el-Khâdim, Sinai

Kemp, Victoria; Delbey, Thomas; Shortland, Andrew J. (Elsevier, 2023-03-21)

Serabit el-Khâdim, located on the western coast of the Sinai Peninsula, is the site of an ancient turquoise mine established in the early 12th Dynasty (c. 1985 BCE) and active between the 18th and 20th Dynasties (c. 1550–1136 ...

Developing a methodology for the non-destructive analysis of British soft-paste porcelain

Dunster, J. M. (2016)

Soft-paste porcelain was produced in Britain in great quantities between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. Due to industrial secrecy and the complexities of creating a product that would survive high-temperature firing, ...

Early medieval garnet-inlaid metalwork: a comparative analysis of disc brooches from early Wessex

Hamerow, Helena; Shortland, Andrew J.; Cameron, Esther (Cambridge University Press, 2020-09-11)

Garnet-inlaid metalwork was an emblem of elite culture in the early medieval North Sea world. This study compares three Anglo-Saxon garnet-inlaid brooches that are exceptionally similar in design and appearance. All three ...

Emulation and technological adaptation in late 18th century Cloisonné-style Chinese painted enamels

Norris, Dana; Braekmans, Dennis; Shortland, Andrew J. (Wiley, 2022-01-23)

Cloisonné-style motifs are rare and enigmatic in Chinese painted enamels because of their distinct technological development at the end of the 18th century. Five late Qianlong to Jiaqing period (1736–1820) Chinese painted ...

European cobalt sources identified in the production of Chinese Famille Rose porcelain

Giannini, R.; Freeston, I. C.; Shortland, Andrew J. (Elsevier, 2017-02-16)

The blue pigments on 112 fragments or small objects of Qing Dynasty Chinese, 95 of underglaze blue and white and 17 overglaze enamelled porcelains were analysed by LA-ICPMS. The underglaze blues on both blue and white and ...

Experimental mixing of natron and plant ash style glass: implications for ancient glass recycling

Scott, R. B.; Neyt, B.; Brems, D.; Eekelers, K.; Shortland, Andrew J.; Degryse, Patrick (Ingenta, 2017-02-14)

The practice of re-melting glass was well known, certainly from the Roman period onwards. This can be seen not only in ancient literary evidence but also in the archaeological evidence, collections of broken glass have ...

Glass: Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln

Shortland, Andrew J. (Friends of the American Society of Overseas Research, 2021-05-01)

Today glass is all around us, it is familiar to us all in windows, vessels, spectacles, a myriad of uses. However, when glass was first made in the Late Bronze Age (LBA) around 1500 BCE it was very different.

Governance under the shadow of the law: trading high value fine art

Shortland, Anja; Shortland, Andrew J. (Springer Verlag, 2019-09-20)

The market for paintings by well-known artists is booming despite widespread concern about art crime and difficulties in establishing provenance. Public law enforcement is imperfect, and court cases often are deemed ...

High-resolution X-ray diffraction with no sample preparation

Hansford, G. M.; Turner, S. M. R.; Degryse, Patrick; Shortland, Andrew J. (International Union of Crystallography, 2017-07-01)

It is shown that energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) implemented in a back-reﬂection geometry is extremely insensitive to sample morphology and positioning even in a high-resolution conﬁguration. This technique ...

Identifying and evaluating atypical traits in Ancient Egyptian glass vessels using raw data analysis and expert assessment

Kemp, Victoria; Rohan, Rhiannon; Shortland, Andrew J. (Equinox, 2021-05-23)

The descriptive data pertaining to the remaining, largely intact, glass vessels produced in ancient Egypt between the reigns of Thutmosis IV (1401-1391 BC) and Pinudjem II (959-945 BC) contained in ‘Die Glasgefäße im Alten ...

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