Sydney B.J. Skertchly and the Early History of Pleistocene Archaeology at the Queensland Museum
In 2012 the Queensland Museum (QM) will be one hundred and fifty years old, the third oldest museum in Australia. Interestingly, the QM was probably the first museum in the country to begin to support, but not the first to ignore (or even suppress?), what we would...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2012-07-01
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Series: | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |
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Online Access: | http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/503 |
Summary: | In 2012 the Queensland Museum (QM) will be one hundred and fifty
years old, the third oldest museum in Australia. Interestingly, the QM was probably the
first museum in the country to begin to support, but not the first to ignore (or even
suppress?), what we would consider today as something approaching prehistoric scientific
archaeological research. |
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ISSN: | 1062-4740 2047-6930 |