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'We know we'll find gold in the Falklands' David Hudd, the head of Falkland Island Holdings, tells Edward Simpkins about his firm's drive to modernise
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`We're like a mini Jardine Matheson," says David Hudd, the
chairman of Falkland Island Holdings (FIH), in a reference to the
famous Hong Kong-based conglomerate. The similarities are indeed
striking.
Both were founded on British islands on distant part of the globe
in the first half of the 19th century and both have interests ranging
from hotels, retailing and property to dealing in cars. But there the
similarities end.
The difference in scale between the two companies is so vast as to
be comical: when Hudd said "mini", he meant "micro". Jardine Matheson
turned over pounds 4.7bn last year and ...
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Stone axe technology in Neolithic South India: new evidence from the Sanganakallu-Kupgal region, mideastern Karnataka.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
; ...changes that attended the Neolithic transition, as well...transition from the Neolithic to the Megalithic or Iron Age (see Table 1 for period designations and chronology...during the Neolithic period, a possibility first...Several eminent Southern Neolithic scholars and South Asian...
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Inside the Neolithic mind: consciousness, cosmos and the realm of the gods.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; ...that the dimensions of the 'Neolithic mind' under study here are...shared with many cultures, Neolithic or otherwise. For instance...influential throughout other periods of European prehistory, such...should be seen as specifically Neolithic therefore requires further...
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Dating the Neolithic of South India: new radiometric evidence for key economic, social and ritual transformations.(Method)(Table)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...millennium BC, and the Neolithic period, which appears to fall...phasing within these periods, especially the two millennia of the Neolithic period, and its implications...After a lull in Southern Neolithic studies from the early...
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Tell Sabi Abyad, the Late Neolithic Settlement: Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria. Two volumes.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...At Sabi Abyad, this period is represented by levels 11-7 (Ceramic Neolithic), 6-4 (Transitional...transition from the Ceramic Neolithic to Halaf periods, a poorly understood...immediately relevant to the Neolithic issues dealt with in...
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The use of caves for funerary and ritual practices in Neolithic Ireland.(Research)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...use of caves in the Neolithic period in Ireland has to begin...of caves in the Irish Neolithic. In 1928, at Kilgreany...assigned to the Neolithic period by radiocarbon dating...Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic transition--a period...
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Neolithic Society in Greece. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...article, he claims that Greek Neolithic households became increasingly...of craft specialization in Neolithic Greece, arguing that the...elements. Vitelli's case for Neolithic potters as "ritual healers...formed a social anchor in a period of considerable change would...
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Finding the early Neolithic in Aegean Thrace: the use of cores.(Method)(Author abstract)(Report)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...Aegean Thrace, there are three Neolithic sites--Sitagroi, Dikili Tash...light levels dating to the middle Neolithic period (Maniatis & Fakorellis...while there is good evidence for Neolithic occupation in Turkish Thrace...
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Excavating a Neolithic Peace at Dhra (Jordan)
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology
; ...matter, about the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period, eleven and a half thousand...traditionally assumed that as Neolithic society abandoned hunting and...founding of early sedentary Neolithic villages. Early Neolithic villagers...
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Touch not the fish: the Mesolithic-Neolithic change of diet and its significance.
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...which saw the advent of the Neolithic as a 'revolution'. This...across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Instead, it is during this very period that the view of the transition...marine resources in the Neolithic, taking examples mainly...
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Douglass Bailey, Alasdair Whittle & Vicki Cummings (ed.). (Un)settling the Neolithic.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...sterling]. (Un)settling the Neolithic is a collection of 14 papers...central and east European Neolithic, attacking the essentialisms...traditional approaches to the period. To some extent it does this...on what 'constitutes' the Neolithic. Consequently this volume...
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