New Releases by Royal Ontario Museum

The Scollard Formation is the uppermost division of the Edmonton Group, exposed in the valley of Red Deer River, Alberta, north of Drumheller and east of Red Deer. The lower portion of the formation contains fossil vertebrates, including dinosaurs and mammals that correlate with those of the Lance Formation of Wyoming and the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. The highest stratigraphic occurrence of this fauna is at the Henry Farm locality, west of Content Bridge, where a wide range of vertebrates is represented by isolated teeth and bones. This occurrence is well below the Ardley coal seam. Above this seam is a shell bed containing a fauna of freshwater molluscs, ostracods, and fish remains. The molluscs correlate with those of the Paskapoo and other nonmarine Paleocene formations, but one species is known elsewhere only from Cretaceous deposits. This fauna is assigned to the early Paleocene. On the basis of the highest occurence of dinosaur fossils, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary is taken to be about 11 m below the Ardley coal seam and about 20 m below the shell bed.

This catalogue discusses Etruscan pottery in non-Greek and non-Roman styles with a particular focus on a large collection of impasto vessels of 8th- to 6th-century BC from Chiusi. The author proposes some new dating methodology and there are catalogue descriptions, good photos and profile drawings of the pieces.

Greek, Roman and Related Metalware in the Royal Ontario Museum Aby John W Hayes Metal vessels, lamps, containers and furniture fittings dating from 8th C BC to 6th C AD Egypt and the Mediterranean are catalogued in this well-illustrated volume.

This catalogue traces black-glaze'' ceramics from the early Ionion cups'', through the true black-glaze'' of Classical Athens and its derivatives, to Roman Republican Campana wares and other Greek and Italian pots with added paint, including Gnathia ware. In his descriptions and introduction the author shows how disparate the types commonly referred to as black glaze'' really are. The 295 examples are well illustrated in line drawings and b/w photos.

Study of the fossil fauna of the Delorme platform facies of dolostone and argillaceous limestone in the Mackenzie mountains of Yukon.

Description of the traditional clothing and lifestyle of Indians who inhabited the North Pacific coast from northern California to southern Alaska.

Throughout history people have been captivated by the exploration of civilizations foreign to their own familiar sights and sounds. Nowhere is this more evident than in the exhibition Silk Roads--China Ships, which unveils objects that chronicle the cultural, economic, political, and social effects of trade between the Orient and the West through nineteen centuries.--pg. vi.

Describes the traditional lifestyle and clothing of the Plains Indians, who inhabited an area extending from central Alberta almost to the Gulf of Mexico.

"The objects described and depicted range from late Classical and Byzantine examples to art nouveau and art deco statuettes for the early 20th century. The pride of the collection, however, consists of Renaissance and Baroque statuettes representing the development of the art in Italy, German, France, the Netherlands, Spain and England."--Jacket.

Conodonts have been recovered from two sections through the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds of the upper Rabbitkettle Formation, near the headwaters of the Broken Skull River, western Mackenzie Mountains. This report contributes towards a biofacies evaluation of Cambrian-Ordovician boundary bed conodonts and illustrates the probable limitations on a highly resolved conodont-based correlation of this interval between strongly constrasting lithofacies.

The seven-hundred year period beginning with the Six Dynasties and ending with the Five Dynasties may be likened to a germination stage in Chinese ceramics. Styles and techniques developed during those centuries made possible the incomparable excellence of Sung Dynasty stonewares which followed.--Introduction.