THE HALLATON INGOT: SILVER IN IRON AGE BRITAIN

This article is a case study of the detailed contextual and scientific analysis of a single object, moving beyond a conventional object biography to consider flows of materials and shifts in meaning and value. The object is a simple triangular silver ingot from the Late Iron Age shrine site at Hallaton, Leicestershire, UK. Scientific analysis is used to uncover the biography of the ingot, and the raw materials from which it was created. The results suggest that the metal which eventually formed the ingot circulated through both Iron Age and Roman social networks, being reworked and transformed several times before it was deposited. Silver emerges as a material which mediated between the Mediterranean world and Iron Age communities in Britain, allowing translation and transmutation between different systems of value in conquest‐period Britain.     

Colonial Virginia's paper money regime, 1755–74: A forensic accounting reconstruction of the data

In this article, the author reconstructs the data on Virginia's paper money regime using forensic accounting techniques. He corrects the existing data on the amounts authorized and outstanding, and reconstructs yearly data on previously unknown aspects of Virginia's paper money regime, including printings, net new emissions, redemptions and removals, denominational structures, expected redemption tax revenues, and specie accumulating in the treasury for paper money redemption. These new data form the foundation for narratives written on the social, economic, and political history of Virginia, as well as for testing models of colonial paper money performance.     

Mythology of the Guarayo Indians.

The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living. An old Irish Saga, now first edited, with Translation, Notes, and Glossary, by Kuno Meyer. With an Essay upon the Irish Vision of the Happy Other-world and the Celtic doctrine of Rebirth, by Alfred Nutt. Section I. London: D. Nutt, 1895. By F. York Powell.

The Gâtakamâlâ or Garland of Birth-stories, by Ârya Sûra. Translated from the Sanskrit by J. S. Speyer. (Sacred Books of the Buddhists translated by various oriental scholars and edited by F. Max Müller. Vol. I.) Henry Frowde, 1895.

Evolution in Art as illustrated by the Life-Histories of Designs. By Alfred C. Haddon, Professor of Zoology, Royal Coll. of Science, Dublin. With 8 Plates and 130 Figures in the Text. Walter Scott, 1895.

Le Folklore Flamand, par Is. Teirlinck. Folklore Mythologique. Bruxelles: Charles Rozez. N. D.

Tales from the Field. A Series of Popular Tales from the Norse of P. Ch. Asbjörnsen. By Sir George Dasent, D. C. L. New Edition. London : Gibbings &; Co., Limited. 1896.

Rappresentazioni Popolari in Piemonte. La Passione in Canavese. Pubblicata e Commentata da Costantino Nigra c Delfino Orsi. Torino: Roux Frassati e Co. 1895.     

Climatic Collapse at The Hague: What Happened,Why, and Where Do We Go From Here?

This article analyses the meeting of the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention that took place at The Hague in November 2000. Billed as the summit that would put the final touches to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the meeting adjourned without reaching substantive conclusions. The authors explain what happened, underlining salient features that have led to the current impasse. They suggest that agreement is still possible if major players understand the need to work within the structures, institutions and processes created by the Convention and Protocol as a result of the ten years of hard negotiations. Intransigence, an overloaded agenda, abandonment of familiar procedures and, above all, an inability to consider creative ways of forging common positions from divergent national positions are some of the lessons that need to be learnt.