Pitt Rivers Museum

Recent papers from Pitt Rivers Museum

1. Mega Mounders: Burrowing Talitrids ( Megalorchestia spp.) Excavate Large Quantities of Sand on California BeachesJournal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · 2026
2. Untapped potential of European natural history collections of megadiverse DipteraBioScience · 2026
3. “A Rusting Metal Behemoth, Within the Crumbling Masonry of Empire”: Addressing Sugar Plantations as Sites of Forgetting on the Island of Saint LuciaIsland Studies Journal · 2026
4. Jaguars and raptorial birds: The ancient wood carving arts of Northeastern South America (Trombetas River region, Brazil)Journal of Archaeological Science Reports · 2026
5. Public Presentations of Plants: Colonial Legacies and Indigenous Perspectives in the Botanical Gardens of The HuntingtonMuseum Anthropology · 2025
6. Chimurenga epistemologiesRevista Cadernos do Ceom · 2024
7. The colonial roots of botany – legacies of empire in the botanic gardens of Oxford and KewMuseum Management and Curatorship · 2023
8. Palaeoproteomics confirm earliest domesticated sheep in southern Africa ca. 2000 BPScientific Reports · 2021
9. From Tusk to TownStudies in Late Antiquity · 2019
10. Testing the Effectiveness of Protocols for Removal of Common Conservation Treatments for Radiocarbon DatingENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · 2017
11. From the ground up: cultural heritage practices as tools for empowerment in the Homeless Heritage projectInternational Journal of Heritage Studies · 2017
12. The Ancestral Image in the Present TensePhotographies · 2015
13. A Text-Book Textile at the Pitt Rivers Museum: Historiographical Notes on a Kongo Cushion-Cover, its Canonical Status, Dating, and ProvenanceAfrican Arts · 2015
14. Photography and the comparative method: the construction of an anthropological archiveJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 2012
15. “Yours (unusually) cheerfully, Gordon”: Vere Gordon Childe's letters to R.B.K. StevensonAntiquity · 2011
16. Records management in English local government: the effect of freedom of informationRecords Management Journal · 2011
17. Thermal methods of pest eradication: Their effect on museum objectsJournal of the Institute of Conservation · 2005
18. The cultural biography of objectsWorld Archaeology · 1999
19. Prehistoric historiesWorld Archaeology · 1998
20. Human Diversity and the Myth of the Primitive IsolateCurrent Anthropology · 1997