Research
Expedition Volume 16, Number 2 Winter 1974
Cover: See "The Predatory Baboon" by Robert S. O. Harding.
Features
The Hittites and the Aegean World
James D. Muhly
The Use of Clay before Pottery in the Zagros
Denise Schmandt-Besserat
The Jar Makers of Thrapsano in Crete
Maria Voyatzoglou
The Third Lion Bowl from Hasanlu
Oscar White Muscarella
The Predatory Baboon
Robert S. O. Harding
Departments
Museum Staff
Expedition Volume 16, Number 3 Spring 1974
Cover: Motifs on the body of the chariot of Tuthmosis IV (about 1425-1417 BC).
Features
Phrygian Furniture from Gordion
Rodney S. Young
Professional Health Care in a Montana Settlement of Peru
John McDaniel
Irish Archaeology
Bernard Wailes
Stone Knobs and Chariot Tracks
Frances James
Departments
Museum Staff
Expedition Volume 16, Number 4 Summer 1974
Cover: An artist's conception of the work at Nippur during the Fall, 1973.
Features
The Position of the Large Bronze Saws of Minoan Crete in the History of Tool Making
H. Bartlett Wells
Peoples Who Perish
William J. Robson
Meet the Chocos
Marjorie Vandervelde
The Twelfth Season at Nippur
McGuire Gibson
Jaguar Cult--Down's Syndrome--Were-Jaguar
Roberto Gonzalo and George Milton
Departments
Index to Volume 16
Expedition Volume 17, Number 1 Fall 1974
Cover: Stamp issued by the Government of Iran to commemorate the 2nd International Congress of Architecture, September 1974, Persepolis--Shiraz, showing the plan of Hasanlu in the period 1000-800 BC. Actual size of stamp, 4.3 x 3.2 cm.
Features
Calabashes in Northern Nigeria
Mildred A. Konan
A Lost Notebook from the Excavations at Gournia, Crete
Jean Silverman
Children's Games
Musa Baran
New Approches to the Study of Ancient Disease
Michael Zimmerman
Yemen--Breaking with the Feudal Past
Leland Meister
Departments
Museum Staff
Expedition Volume 17, Number 2 Winter 1975
Special Issue: India and Pakistan
Cover: Pottery motifs. The top is a typical Londo Ware design (c. 1st millennium CE). The second register of interlocking stick figures is a motif common on Jorwe Pottery (1400-1100 BCE) as found at Inamgaon. The third register of peacocks and a pipal tree bordered by intersecting circles is associated with the mature Harappan (2300-1700 BCE) as found at Mohenjo-daro. Pre-Harappan designs (2800-2300 BCE) from Kalibangan form the lowerst register.
Features
An Early Farmers' Village in Central India
H. D. Sankalia, Z. D. Ansari, and M. K. Dhavalikar
Origins of Bronze Age Cultures in the Indus Basin--A Geographic Perspective
Ahmad Hasan Dani
Kalibangan--A Harappan Metropolis Beyond the Indus Valley
B. K. Thapar
Expedition Volume 17, Number 3 Spring 1975
Special Issue: New Hebrides and New Guinea
Cover: Original pastel drawings by Leslie Weightman, Norsup, Malekula, from her visit with the Small Namba in 1973. She is one of the few resident artists in the New Hebrides.
Features
An Expedition to the New Hebrides
John D. Hedrick and Karen Goodrich Hedrick
Bislama--Pidgin English in the New Hebrides
Elizabeth Reed Dickie
The Kafe--A New Guinea Highlands Group
Harold G. Levine
Departments
Museum Staff
Expedition Volume 17, Number 4 Summer 1975
Cover: Arcesilaus II, King of Cyrene, detail on the interior of a wine cup made in Laconia around 560 BC; today in the Bibliotheque Nationale.
Features
Archaic Cyrene and the Cult of Demeter and Persephone
Donald White
Herodotus and the Scythians
Karen S. Rubinson
Vindolanda
Alfred Friendly
Men, Saints, or Dragons?
David S. Reese
Ingots and the Bronze Age Copper Trade in the Mediterranean--A Progress Report
Tamara Stech Wheeler, Robert Maddin, and James D. Muhly
Departments
Index to Volume 17
Expedition Volume 18, Number 1 Fall 1975
Cover: Mirror image of storyboard, The Decieved Husband of Ngkeklau.
Features
The Palauan Storyboards--From Traditional Architecture to Airport Art
DeVerne Reed Smith
Carved Chlorite Vessels--A Trade in Finished Commodities in the Mid-Third Millennium
Philip L. Kohl
Yogurt--Its Life and Culture
Frances James
Lyric Verse and Ritual in the Santa Cruz Islands
William Davenport
Departments
Museum Staff
Expedition Volume 18, Number 2 Winter 1976
Cover: The head of an adolescent girl from Cyrene.
Features
A Return to Sybaris
Oliver C. Colburn
Seven Recently Discovered Sculptures from Cyrene, Eastern Libya
Donald White, Irene F. Bald, Linny Schenk, Susan Tutweiler, Brian R. MacDonald, Gerald Schaus, Marcia Bloom, and Karen Chance
Middle Elamite Malyan
Elizabeth Carter and Matthew Stolper
The Survival of Ancient Traditions in the Popular Architecture of North-Central Turkey
Jak Yakar and Jose Louis Garzon
Departments
Museum Staff
Expedition Volume 18, Number 3 Spring 1976
Cover: Bronze cut-out plaque of the 7th century BC from Kato Syme.
Features
A Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite in Crete
Angeliki Lebessi
Some Aspects of the Classical Heritage in Afghanistan
Elfriede Knauer
The Pastoral Nomads of Nigeria
Frank L. Lambrecht
The City of the Hawk--Seat of Egypt's Ancient Civilization
Michael A. Hoffman
Nippur Rebaked--The Conservation of Cuneiform Tablets
Ann Guinan, Gary Oller, and Dorothy Ormsby
Expedition Volume 18, Number 4 Summer 1976
Cover: Dr. Rainey with one of his woodcarvings, his most recent interest.
Features
The Museum as Forum
Sir John Pope-Hennessy
University Museum-Thai Fine Arts Department Northeast Thailand Archaeological Project: Introduction
James D. Muhly
Ban Chiang--A Mosaic of Impressions from the First Two Years
Chester Gorman and Pisit Charoenwongsa
Archaeological Survey and Excavation of Ban Chiang Culture Sites in Northeast Thailand
William Schauffler
Expedition Volume 19, Number 1 Fall 1976
Special Issue: Ethnology and Archaeology in Greece
Cover: Samples from within the issue.
Features
A Greek Countryside--Reports from the Argolid Exploration Project
Michael H. Jameson
The "Thrice-Ploughed Field"--Cultivation Techniques in Ancient and Modern Greece
Hamish Forbes
The Pursuit of Wild Edibles, Present and Past
Mary Clark Forbes
The Thousand Year Road
Harold Koster
Expedition Volume 19, Number 2 Winter 1976
Cover: Copper and tin deposits of the world, after U. S. Bureau of Mines.
Features
Kalahari Desert Trek Notes--From Lobatsi to Tsodilo Hills
Frank L. Lambrecht
Shell Working at Ancient Balakot, Pakistan
George F. Dales and Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Guerilla Warfare in Eighteenth Century Jamaica
Barbara Klamon Kopytoff
The Cult of the Jambiya--Dagger Wearing in Yemen
Schuyler V. R. Cammann
Tin in the Ancient Near East--Old Questions and New Finds
Robert Maddin, Tamara Stech Wheeler, and James D. Muhly
Expedition Volume 19, Number 3 Spring 1977
Cover: Wall painting fragments from Malyan.
Hard copies of this issue are sold out.
Features
Malyan Wall Paintings
Janet W. Nickerson
The Incidence of Lead in Late Shang and Early Chou Ritual Vessels
Katheryn M. Linduff
Cherokee Indian Craftswomen and the Economy of Basketry
Bonita Freeman-Witthoft
The Earliest Uses of Clay in Syria
Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Expedition Volume 19, Number 4 Summer 1977
Cover: Bronze plaque from Giyimli showing a deity with single-horned helmet carrying two quivers, standing on a lion, faced by a worshipper.
Features
A Late Shang Place of Sacrifice and its Historical Significance
A. Gutkind Bulling
The Urartian Bronze Hoard from Giyimli
Orhan Aytug Tasyurek
Ancient Inventions for Tooling the Surfaces of Objects in Softer Metals
H. Bartlett Wells
Southeast Asia--The Changing Scene
Elizabeth Lyons
The Excavations of the University Museum Akhenaten Temple Project at Karnak
Donald B. Redford
Expedition Volume 20, Number 1 Fall 1977
Special Issue: Ur
Cover: Photo by William Clough. Gaming board of shell and lapis lazuli from RT. 580 in the Royal Cemetery, now in the University Museum.
Features
[Special Issue Introduction]
Recollections of C. Leonard Woolley
Sir Max Mallowan, C.B.E.
Archival Glimpses of the Ur Expedition in the Years 1920 to 1926
Selected by Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
What Do We Know About the People Buried in the Royal Cemetery?
P. R. S. Moorey
The Ur Excavations and Sumerian Literature
Samuel Noah Kramer
Departments
New Directions--The Director Writes
Expedition Volume 20, Number 2 Winter 1978
Cover: The Book of the Dead, papyrus, Egypt, 13th c. BCE
Features
Mochlos--A New Look at Old Excavations: The University Museum's Work on Crete
Jeffrey S. Soles
Ancient Chinese Maps--Two Maps Discovered in a Han Dynasty Tomb from the Second Century B.C.
A. Gutkind Bulling
Ancient Cartography--Man's Earliest Attempts to Represent His World
James D. Muhly
Egyptian Papyri--The University Museum's Collection of Papyri and Related Materials
John R. Abercrombie
Ancient Seals and Modern Science--Using the Scanning Electron Microscope as an Aid in the Study of Ancient Seals
Leonard Gorelick and A. John Gwinnett
Departments
University Museum Announcements
New Directions--The Director Writes
Expedition Volume 20, Number 3 Spring 1978
Cover: "Astronomical Disk", Western Chou, Diam. 6.5 inches, University Museum.
Features
Chinese Jades--The Role of Jade in Ancient China: An Introduction to a Special Exhibition at the University Museum
Elizabeth Lyons
Found: The Dorians--Archaeology and Greek Linguistics at the End of the Late Bronze Age
Carol Thomas
Mabudu--A Report on a Vanishing Culture in the Northeastern Corner of the Congo Basin as it Existed in 1948
Frank L. Lambrecht
Expedition Volume 20, Number 4 Summer 1978
Special Issue: Biblical Archaeology
Cover: Photo by Avraham Hay. Hoard of 47 Ptolemaic silver tetradrachms found at Tel Michal.
Features
'En-Besor--An Egyptian First Dynasty Staging Post in the Northern Negev
Ram Gophna
A Canaanite Site Near Sheikh Mukhsen--Recent Discoveries in Southern Sinai
Itzhak Beit-Arieh
Canaanite Aphek--Its Acropolis and Inscriptions
Moshe Kochavi
Lachish--Renewed Archaeological Excavations
David Ussishkin
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