ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

How does the English division between archaeological and ethnographic objects compare to those from the UK, Europe and the global collections?

The English collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum are divided as follows:

How does the English division between archaeological and ethnographic objects compare to those from the UK, Europe and the glob

For artefacts from the UK there is a greater percentage classified as archaeological:

How does the English division between archaeological and ethnographic objects compare to those from the UK, Europe and the glob

For artefacts from Europe, the percentage of items that are ethnographic has increased, though it is not much greater than that for the English collections.

How does the English division between archaeological and ethnographic objects compare to those from the UK, Europe and the glob

For global collections the percentage which is classified as ethnographic is much greater. For English, UK and European collections archaeological artefacts dominate ethnographic ones, for the global collections this relationship is reversed:

How does the English division between archaeological and ethnographic objects compare to those from the UK, Europe and the glob

Note:

For the UK, European and global statistics the category of A/ E (that is, items which might be ethnographic or archaeological) is calculated differently and cannot be compared with the Engiish other category.