| Continents |
Archaeology |
Ethnography |
Archaeology or Ethnography |
Totals |
| Global |
61,145 |
100,278 |
18,342 |
179,765 |
| Africa |
19,078 |
27,178 |
858 |
47,114 |
| Americas |
6,640 |
8,365 |
710 |
15,715 |
| Asia |
5,871 |
33,736 |
624 |
40,231 |
| Australia |
2,413 |
2,569 |
13,483 |
18,465 |
| Europe |
26,575 |
14,394 |
929 |
41,898 |
| Oceania |
272 |
15,188 |
1,628 |
17,088 |
These figures are calculated on the breakdowns for the overall continental figures NOT for the added totals of archaeology and ethnography for each country in the continent given in other places
Here are the separate continental breakdowns between archaeology and ethnography, note that further information is available in each continent's own statistics:
Colonial breakdowns for archaeology and ethnography
The figures below are based on the information provided in Appendices 4 and 5. They are not calculated in the same way as the figures given above:
| Colonial €¢ |
Non-British colonial |
|
| Archaeology |
45,563 |
16,884 |
| Ethnography |
68,112 |
34,480 |
| Arch or ethn |
16,156 |
1,907 |
| Totals |
129,831 |
53,271 |
Note that these figures include Canada and the other Dominions and also the UK
For some reason the only very revealing difference between these charts is that there is a much higher percentage of uncertain objects (which could be either archaeological or ethnographic) from colonial countries than for those outside the British Empire. This has to be a coincidence we would have thought and not significant but it does have the effect of reducing the levels of definite ethnographic objects quite substantially.
ESRC 'Relational Museum'
October 2003
