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Expedition Volume 26, Number 1 Fall 1983
Cover: Photo by Jordan M. Wright. Two women of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Tarquinia Antefixes--A View of the History of an Etruscan City-State
Marilyn Goldberg
Alfred P. Maudslay--Pioneer Maya Archaeologist (A Review Article)
Robert J. Sharer
100 Years of Research--The Approaching Museum Centennial
Edited by Gregory L. Possehl and Jennifer Quick
Ceramic Stands--A Group of Domestic and Ritual Objects from Crete and the Near East
Philip P. Betancourt, Mary G. Ciaccio, Brigit Crowell, Jean M. Donohoe, and R. Curtis Green
"The Highland Show'--Mount Hagen/Goroka, Papua New Guinea
Jordan M. Wright
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Geraldine Bruckner--An Appreciation by Past and Present Expedition Staff
Expedition Volume 26, Number 2 Winter 1984
Special Issue: Arctic Research
Cover: Photo by Fred Schoch. Eskimo woman's beaded inner parka.
Features
Introduction
Susan A. Kaplan
Whale Alley--A Site on the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia
Mikhail A. Chlenov and Igor I. Krupnik
An Eskimo Whaling Outfit from Sledge Island, Alaska
Susan A. Kaplan, Richard H. Jordan, and Glenn W. Sheehan
Images from the Past--Thoughts on Bering Sea Eskimo Art and Culture
William W. Fitzhugh
Sapangat--Inuit Beadwork in the Canadian Arctic
Bernadette Driscoll
Expedition Volume 26, Number 3 Spring 1984
Cover: Photo by Arjun Appadurai. Vadi's main temple was renovated through the cooperation of its villagers.
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Wells in Western India--Irrigation and Cooperation in an Agricultural Society
Arjun Appadurai
Etruscan Bird-Askoi--Painted Vases in the Shape of Birds
Mario A. Del Chiaro
Northeastern Arabia--From the Seleucids to the Earliest Caliphs
Daniel T. Potts
Museum Briefs--The Merenptah Palace Project of 1983-84
Jay Schwartz, with George Brooks and John Herrmann
Late Bronze Age Tylissos--House Plans and Cult Center
Barbara J. Hayden
Expedition Volume 26, Number 4 Summer 1984
Cover: Photo by Peggy R. Sanday. A bride from the coast of West Sumatra wearing a crown of imitation gold, jewels, and flowers.
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Sikaiana--A Contemporary Polynesian Society
Bill Donner
Cloth and Custom in West Sumatra--The Codification of Minangkabau Worldview
Peggy R. Sanday and Suwati Kartiwa
Houses and House-Building in Donggo
Peter Just
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Expedition Volume 27, Number 1 Spring 1985
Cover: Photo by Ruben E. Reina. At 6:00 in the morning, clouds still cover a valley in the Quetzaltenango region of Guatemala.
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The Road to Wadi al-Jubah--Archaeology on the Ancient Spice Route in Yemen
Jeffrey A. Blakely and James A. Sauer
Village on the Euphrates--Excavations at Neolithic Gritille in Turkey
Mary M. Voigt
Rock Paintings in Yunnan, China--Some New Light on the Old Shan Kingdom
Wang Ningsheng
Dorset Shamanism--Excavations in Northern Labrador
Callum Thomson
A Maya Teacher--A Day of Fieldwork in the Mountains of Guatemala
Ruben E. Reina
Expedition Volume 27, Number 2 Summer 1985
Special Issue: Exploring 5000 Years of Athletics
Cover: Photo by Fred Schoch. Two Greek vases showing ancient athletic competitions. Left: Black-figure amphora depicting a boxing match (MS 403), late 6th century BC, H. 29.5 cm, D. 17 cm. Right: Red-figure kylix with wrestling scene (MS 2444). 500-475 BC, H. 9.3 cm, D. 23.5 cm.
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Introduction
David Gilman Romano
"Trials of Strength"--Athletics in Mesopotamia
Ake W. Sjoberg
Boycotts, Bribes and Fines--The Ancient Olympic Games
David Gilman Romano
Expedition Volume 27, Number 3 Winter 1985
Special Issue: The Discovery of Maya History
Cover: Photo by John Taggart. Round-base vase with polychrome pictorial design, from Calcehtok, Yucatan. Plate LIV by Mary Louise Baker from Maya Pottery in the University of Pennsylvania Museum and in Other Collections.
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Introduction
Robert J. Sharer
Tikal, Guatemala--A Rationale for the Placement of the Funerary Pyramids
Mary Ellen Miller
Archaeology and Epigraphy Revisited--An Archaeological Enigma and the Origins of Maya Writing
Robert J. Sharer
Maya Hieroglyphs--A History of the Decipherment
Christopher Jones
Expedition Volume 28, Number 1 Spring 1986
Cover: Photo by Fred Schoch. Iroquois beaded pouch (UM # 30-1-12) and moccasin (UM # 41-24-12), with an illustration of Caroline Parker wearing a traditional Seneca costume from L. H. Morgan's League of the Iroquois.
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Excavations at Khirbet Iskander, Jordan--A Glimpse at Settled Life during the "Dark Age" in Palestinian Archaeology
Suzanne Richard
"Ill-Understood Relics"--A Group of Early Anglo-Saxon Artifacts in the University Museum
Genevieve Fisher
Basket Makers of the Highlands--The Dou Wawo of Bima, Sumbawa
Michael Hitchcock
Expedition Volume 28, Number 2 Summer 1986
Special Issue: Prehistoric Pioneers--Archaeology and the History of Farming
Cover: Photo by M. M. Voigt. The first plants and animals domesticated in the Middle East are still basic to village economics. In the fields surrounding the village of Lidar in southern Turkey, wheat, barley, and lentils are grown. Sheep and goats graze on the hillsides during the day, but return each evening to the village for milking.
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Introduction--The Origin and Growth of a Research Focus: Agricultural Beginnings
Robert J. Braidwood
Wild Animals Ain't So Wild, Domesticating Them Not So Difficult
Charles A. Reed
Dietary Reconstruction and Near Eastern Archaeology
Andrew Sillen
Expedition Volume 28, Number 3 Winter 1986
Special Issue: Museum Artifacts
Cover: Photo by Fred Schoch. "Ming Huang's Journey to Shu." Chinese painting on silk from the Ming period (14th-15th centuries). UM No. C-137.
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Introduction
Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
A Ruler in Triumph--Chocola Monument I
Christopher Jones
The Morris Coin--A Masterpiece by Euaenetus
Donald White
Ming Huang's Journey to Shu--The History of a Painting
Elizabeth Lyons
Expedition Volume 29, Number 1 Spring 1987
Special Issue: Museum ArtifactsCover: Photo by Stephen M. Albert. Dukduk Lumlum on beach with a big man in traditional decoration, Southern New Ireland.
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Reproducing Our Ancestors--The University Museum's Casting Program
Alan Mann and Janet Monge
The Adrim or "Virginity Disc"--Marking the Passage to Womanhood in Siwah
Salah Hassan
Tubuan--Masks and Men in Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Stephen M. Albert
The Earliest Pharoahs and The University Museum--Old and New Excavations: 1900-1987
David O'Connor
Expedition Volume 29, Number 2 Summer 1987
Special Issue: Archaeological Facts and Fantasies
Cover: King Arthur and his knights setting out in search of the Holy Grail, from a 14th century Italian manuscript (Ms. Fr. 343 Fol. 8. Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris).
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Archaeology and Pseudo-Archaeology
Brian Fagan
The Cult of the Cave Bear--Prehistoric Rite or Scientific Myth?
Philip G. Chase
"Scholars Will Call It Nonsense"--The Structure of Erich von Daniken's Argument
Stephen M. Epstein
Atlantis Lost and Found--The Ancient Aegean from Politics to Volcanoes
Nicholas Hartmann
Expedition Volume 29, Number 3 Winter 1987
Special Section: Crafts of India
Cover: Photo by Terry J. Reedy. The finishing touches are made to a statue produced by the traditional lost wax process in a casting workshop in Chamba, India.
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Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific--A Search for Pattern
Ward H. Goodenough and Stephen D. Thomas
The Change from Stone Drills to Copper Drills in Mesopotamia--An Experimental Perspective
A. John Gwinnett and Leonard Gorelick
On Ostrich Eggs and Libyans--Traces of a Bronze Age People from Bates' Island, Egypt
David Conwell
Egyptians and Libyans in the New Kingdom--An Interpretation
David O'Connor
Expedition Volume 30, Number 1 Spring 1988
Special Issue: Borneo
Cover: Photo by John Taggart. Borders, beaded design from a skirt, Taman, Kapuas River, Indonesian Borneo. P184. W. of band 22.0 cm, H. of beaded figures 10.3 cm. Carvings of the rhinocerous hornbill, probably Iban, Baran District, Sarawak. P815a, L. 77.5 cm, H. 47.5 cm.
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Features
Opening Statment
William H. Davenport and Adria Katz
Introduction
William H. Davenport
Dayaks and Forests of Interior Borneo
Timothy C. Jessup and Andrew P. Vayda
Agriculture in Interior Borneo--Shifting Cultivation and Alternatives
Christine Padoch
Expedition Volume 30, Number 2 Summer 1988
Cover: Photo by R. Reina. Reenactment of Christ's journey to the cross through the streets of Antigua, Guatemala. Good Friday, 1968.
Features
Early Buddhist Caves of the Western Deccan--Indian Long-Distance Trade in the Early Centuries A.D.
Himanshu P. Ray
Snakes and Lions--A New Reading of the West House Frescoes from Thera
Karen Polinger Foster
Undoing the Past--Changing Attitudes Towards the Restoration of Greek Pots
Kyle M. Phillips and Ann H. Ashmead
The Conservation and Restoration of Red-figure Stamnos No. 48-30-3
Stephen P. Koob
Expedition Volume 30, Number 3 Winter 1988
Special Issue: Andean Archaeology
Cover: Photo by Sergio Chavez. The site of Pucara, Peru, looking north, 1988.
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About This Issue
Karen L. Mohr Chavez
Alfred Kidder II--1911-1984
Karen L. Mohr Chavez
Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin--Putting Ancient Agriculture Back to Work
Clark L. Erickson
The Significance of Chiripa in Lake Titicaca Basin Developments
Karen L. Mohr Chavez
Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Province of Chumbivilcas, South Highland Peru
Sergio J. Chavez
Late Ceramics from Pucara, Peru--An Indicator of Changing Site Function
Denise Carlevato
The Squier Causeway at Lake Umayo--Notes on Ancient Travel in the Northern Lake Titicaca Basin
Catherine J. Julien
Looking for "Lost" Inca Palaces
Susan A. Niles
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