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These adaptations of four 1974 episodes of the BBC1 comedy series,
The Liver Birds, feature the two incompatible Liverpudlian girls,
Beryl and Sandra. What they have in common are a tiny flat,
boyfriend problems, and a passion for the latest fashion.
Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies
of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical
fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition,
lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic
and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on
detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the
mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in
the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation
within a broad anthropological context.
Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition, lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation within a broad anthropological context.
This memoir is not really about research questions or main
conclusions. It tells the story of a boy growing up in Plymouth,
Devon, getting excited about archaeology after visits to mainland
Greece and Crete, trying to get into Greek archaeology and
re-locating northwards into the Balkans, where he spent a career in
prehistoric research. The chapters alternate between
museum/university experiences and my major research projects. The
experiences of working in that part of the world as the Third
Balkan War was starting were dramatic and a history-style chapter
is devoted to these beginnings. The Balkan prehistoric club in the
west is a very small and select group so there is an intrinsic
interest about how westerners did their archaeology there and how
they interacted with local colleagues. There is also a sense of a
'colonial relationship' between westerners knowledgeable about
theory and method, with well-stocked libraries and large research
grants and easterners with little of the above. On a basic level,
the memoir presents stories with implications for east - west
relationships that will soon disappear from living memory. The ways
that research projects originated and developed are strongly
featured and there is a fund of anecdotes about prehistorians
living and dead. The publication of this memoir records those
fragments of the discipline's history that are in danger of being
lost forever. But my life story is not erased from this account,
which is not an anthropological work but, rather, a participant
account with a modicum of relevant personal details. The book
providing the archaeological results is the publication Forging
identities in the prehistory of Old Europe. Dividuals, individuals
and communities 7000-3000 BC - a synthesis of academic research in
Balkan prehistory. This memoir provides the insider story to the
research results.
Nearly twenty years ago a symposium convened at Dallas, Texas, to
con sider the place of atypical mycobacteria among agents of human
disease. An edited and condensed version of that symposium was
subsequently published and since that time has constituted the only
bound source of infor mation covering broad aspects of
mycobacterial disease. In the years since a vast amount of
information has accumulated in periodical literature, some of which
is not readily accessible. The time seems suitable for a
comprehensive collection of this scattered material into a single
book. The aim has not been to produce an exhaustive account of
mycobacteria and mycobacterioses, but rather to concentrate on
salient points and particularly on those most generally useful to a
diverse group of interests: mycobacteriology, pathology,
epidemiology, and, of course, clinical fields. In Appendix A there
appear in summary form manifestations of myco bacteria as they have
occurred among clinical specialities, such as ortho pedic surgery,
dermatology, and urology. These summaries are designed to serve as
guides to more probable infections and to lead to more extensive
reading with respect to the specific organism encountered. Appendix
C presents, also in summary form, drugs, regimens, duration of
treatment, and toxicities to permit ready reference to less
familiar anti microbial agents. These are suggestive only, useful
when the general nature of the organism is known but not the
specific susceptibility of the individual strain."
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal.
BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly
inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling
between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and
Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands,
these communities created distinctive social formations that left
enduring marks on today's landscapes. One of the key trends in
these millennia concerned the high value attributed to the exotic,
especially if that was represented by objects of striking colour
and brilliance. Thus, the preference, wherever possible, for
long-term sedentary lifeways was often in counterpoise with
strategies for bringing distinctive objects from remote places back
to the settlement for local 'domestication'. The prehistoric site
of Orlovo has been investigated neither by excavation nor by
systematic field walking but by repeated field visits, over many
years, and the collection of objects exposed by the plough. The
result is an extraordinarily rich and diverse collection of objects
whose contexts are poorly known but whose diversity reminds us not
so much of an excavated settlement as an excavated Chalcolithic
cemetery. This collection has challenged us to develop an approach
in which theory was integrated with methodology to propose as
complete an interpretation of the site as could be done from an
unstructured surface collection. The collection studied in this
book is significant for the prehistory not only of South East
Bulgaria but also for European prehistory as a whole and its study
and publication therefore, sheds light on the worlds of the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities of the Balkans through the
prism of a single site.
Geoffrey Jones, M.P. and sometime architect, is convinced that the
Russians are about to launch a nuclear strike against England. He
builds a bomb shelter equipped with everything he, his wife, and
his wifes old mother will need to last out such a strike. They plan
to try the thing out for a three week experiment when,
inadvertently, they are trapped inside with the mother, the
telephone installer and an Indian milkman. They try to make the
best of the situation when who should enter through a side hatch
but their next door neighbors who, ever striving to keep up with
the Joneses, have now kept down with them by building their own
abutting shelter. By a strange set of circumstances the neighbors
are also trapped and neither neighbor wants to admit this to the
other. Hilarious complications ensue until everyone gets out.
Comedy / Characters: 3 males, 5 females
Set Requirements: Interior
The marriage of Rupert and Sarah is on the rocks and their
friends Charles and Madge, both of whom are lawyers, agree to
handle the divorce. After the curtain has been up a few minutes,
Rupert forgets his lines, has a brain storm and threatens to kill
Charles in full view of the audience because he's been having an
affair off stage, with Rupert's real wife, Madge. Quite true as it
happens. The rest of the cast try to ignore the incident and forge
ahead with the original play but Rupert picks up a knife and
advances on Charles, who is forced to take cover in a large cabin
trunk which is on the set at the time. A real life marital comedy
now evolves. The situation is further complicated when the actor
playing the old father, Edward, makes his entrance. He is an ageing
Shakespearean star, once famous for his King Lear but now an
alcoholic on the skids. He happens to have asked his new agent to
the performance that night. Edward is blissfully unaware that the
play has switched from art to life. Out of loyalty to a fellow
actor, the rest of the cast do their best to accommodate the poor
chap, but he gradually begins to crack up, especially as some of
his cues are coming from a cabin trunk. The play is a light hearted
tilt at the complete theatricality of stage folk.
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