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Expedition Volume 31, Number 1 Spring 1989
Special Issue: Writing Systems
Cover: End page of a Koran from Hamadan, Iran, dated to AD 1164. The inscription, written in Naskh script, gives the date and the name of the calligrapher (UM# NE-P-27, neg. T8-5; H. 34.3 cm, W. 19.7 cm).
Features
Upper Paleolithic Notation Systems in Prehistoric Europe
Simon Holdoway and Susan A. Johnston
The Feathered Serpent in Oaxaca--An Approach to the Study of the Mixtec Codices
John Monaghan
The Trukese-English Dictionary--Recording a Language on the Computer
Ward H. Goodenough
Expedition Volume 31, Number 2 - 3 Summer/Winter 1989
Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu
Cover: Photo by the Hasanlu Project. The entrance to Burned Building II at Hasanlu, destroyed in about 800 BC.
Hard copies of this issue are sold out.
Features
Rediscovering Hasanlu
Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
Glimpses of an Iron Age Landscape--Plants at Hasanlu
Mary Virginia Harris
Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C.
Oscar White Muscarella
Read more: Expedition Volume 31, Number 2 - 3 Summer/Winter 1989
Expedition Volume 32, Number 1 Spring 1990
Special Issue: Textiles, Costume, and Ornament
Cover: Photo by Lorraine Aragon. Pipikoro artisan Tina Idjo and two daughters appliqued blouses of loomed cloth that she designed and sewed for traditional-style ceremonies.
Features
Kwara'ae Costume Ornaments--A Solomon Islands Art Form
Ben Burt
The Ultimate Attire--Jewelry from a Canaanite Temple at Beth Shan
Patrick E. McGovern
Looking at the Past--Nineteenth Century Images of Constantinople as Historic Documents
Nancy Micklewright
Expedition Volume 32, Number 2 Summer 1990
Special Issue: Gardens and Landscapes of the Past
Cover: "The Palaces of Nimroud Restored" shows an imaginative architectural reconstruction based on Austen Henry Layard's archaeological discoveries near Nineveh (and modern Mosul), from A. H. Layard, Nineveh and Its Remains, 2 vols. (New York: George P. Putnam, 1849, 1853), 1:29, 81; 2: Pl. 1 (detail).
Hard copies of this issue are sold out.
Features
Introduction--Gardens and Landscapes of the Past
Kathryn L. Gleason
The Garden Portico of Pompey the Great--An Ancient Public Park Preserved in the Layers of Rome
Kathryn L. Gleason
Expedition Volume 32, Number 3 Winter 1990
Special Issue: The Cultural Heritage of Crete
Cover: Myers balloon aerial photograph of the peninsula on the southeast coastof Pseira, showing the Minoan settlement.
Features
Introduction
Barbara Hayden, Jennifer Moody, and Polymnia Muhly
North American Archaeological Work in Crete, 1880 to 1990
Joseph W. Shaw
The Stone Vessels of Pseira
Philip P. Betancourt
Tombs and Burial Practices in Early Iron Age Crete
Geraldine C. Gesell, Leslie Preston Day, and William D. E. Coulson
Expedition Volume 33, Number 1 Spring 1991
Special Issue: Ethnoarchaeology
Cover: Photo by Glenn Davis Stone. Kofyar mining for water at the height of the dry season in their Nigerian homeland.
Features
Introduction--What is Ethnoarchaeology?
Lee Horne
Ethnoarchaeology at the Top of the World--New Ceramic Studies Among the Kalinga of Luzon
William A. Longacre, James M. Skibo, and Miriam T. Stark
Settlement Ethnoarchaeology--Changing Patterns Among the Kofyar of Nigeria
Glenn Davis Stone
Expedition Volume 33, Number 2 Summer 1991
Special Issue: Feathers in Native American Ceremony and Society
Cover: Photo by Fred Schoch. Hopi kachina figures: Ma'alo carried by Kweo (Wolf), UM# 38853.
Features
Feathers in Southeast American Indian Ceremonialism
Victoria Lindsay Levine
Early Accounts of Birds and Feathers Used by the Southwest Indians
Albert H. Schroeder
Indians, Feathers, and the Law in Western Oklahoma
Donald N. Brown
Expedition Volume 33, Number 3 Winter 1991
Cover: Photo by William Isbell. Honcopampa, Peru viewed from the north, Ama Puncu is a group of multi-storied chullpas surrounding a small U-shaped plaza. Several of the chullpas are so poorly preserved that they appear as little more than earthen mounds.
Features
Boat Graves and Pyramid Origins--New Discoveries at Abydos, Egypt
David O'Connor
On the Banks of the River--Opportunistic Cultivation in South India
Seetha N. Reddy
Honcopampa--Monumental Ruins in Peru's North Highlands
William H. Isbell
Expedition Volume 34, Number 1 - 2 Spring/Summer 1992
Special Issue: Gifts to the Goddesses--Cyrene's Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone
Cover: Photo by Donald White. The University Museum team prepares to winch the large late Hellenistic marble statue of a priestess (Inv. 76-1307, Kane Cat. No. 147) up the steep slope of the Middle Sanctuary to flat ground on the Upper Sanctuary for eventual transfer by flatbed truck to its conservation laboratory, Summer 1976.
Features
Preface: Excavations at The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, 1969-1981
Donald White
Read more: Expedition Volume 34, Number 1 - 2 Spring/Summer 1992
Expedition Volume 34, Number 3 Winter 1992
Special Issue: Ice Age Europeans
Cover: An artist's rendering of an Upper Paleolithic European hunter, from Josef Augusta and Zdenek Burian, Prehistoric Man (London: Paul Hamlyn, 1960), Pl. 24.
Features
Introduction
Philip G. Chase
What Were the Ice Ages?
Philip G. Chase
Paleolithic Archaeology--The Search for Our Human Heritage
Harold L. Dibble
The Inhabitants of Ice Age Europe
Nancy Minugh-Purvis
Expedition Volume 35, Number 1 Spring 1993
Special Issue: Prehistory of the Southwest
Cover: Drawings by Jesse Walter Fewkes. Decorated pottery from a Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) excavation report.
Features
Introduction: Recent Research in the Prehistoric Southwest
Catherine M. Cameron
Southwestern Archaeology--Past, Present, and Future
Christine E. Downum
Anasazi Pottery--Evolution of a Technology
Eric Blinman
Photographic Analysis--A Study of Architectural Change at Oraibi Pueblo
Catherine M. Cameron
Expedition Volume 35, Number 2 Summer 1993
Special Issue: Nubia--An Ancient African Civilization
Cover: "The Homage of the Nubian Princes", from Nina de G. Davies, The Tomb of Huy (London: The Egypt Exploration Society, 1926), Pl. 28.
Features
Introduction
Chiefs or Kings?--Rethinking Early Nubian Politics
David O'Connor
Art and Industry--The Achievements of Meroe
Samia B. Dafa'alla
Medieval Nubia--Another Golden Age
William Y. Adams
Images and Attitudes--Ancient Views of Nubia and the Nubians
Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
Beyond the Nile--The Influence of Egypt and Nubia in Sub-Saharan Africa
John Alexander
Departments
Museum Staff
Behind the Scenes--Karanog, Wealthy Capital of a Lower Nubian Province
Expedition Volume 35, Number 3 Winter 1993
Special Issue: Focus on Fieldwork
Cover: Photo by Michael Katakis. A young Kono girl.
Features
Introduction: Focus on Fieldwork
Lee Horne
Loving a Village
Barbara H. Roll
Representing Africa--Whose Story Counts?
Kris L. Hardin
Fieldwork in Brazil--Petrullo's Visit to the Yawalapiti
Eleanor M. King
"Among Friends"--Excerpt from Uni, an Unpublished Manuscript by Vincenzo Petrullo
Departments
Museum Staff
Behind the Scenes--Return to Caracol
Expedition Volume 36, Number 1 Spring 1994
Special Issue: Southwestern Native Fairs and Markets
Cover: Photo by Jesse Nusbaum. Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo demonstrating pottery making in 1912 in the Patio of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe. Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico, neg. no. 61764.
Features
Introduction
Lee Horne
Producing "Generations in Clay"--Kinship, Markets, and Hopi Pottery
Lea S. McChesney
Pueblo Potters, Museum Curators, and Santa Fe's Indian Market
Bruce Bernstein
Expedition Volume 36, Number 2 - 3 Summer/Winter 1994
Special Issue: The Northern Black Sea Coast in Classical Antiquity
Cover: Photo by Vladimir Terebenin. The Byzantine basilica in Chersonesos, on the northern Black Sea coast.
Features
The Northern Black Sea Coast in Classical Antiquity--New Discoveries
Gregory M. Bongard-Levin and Yuri G. Vinogradov
Olbia Pontica and the "Olbian Muse"
Nina A. Leypunskaya
A Maiden's Golden Burial from Berezan, the Island of Achilles
Yuri G. Vinogradov
The Ancient Greek World--The Rodney S. Young Gallery [Guide]
A Warrior's Burial from the Asiatic Bosporus in the Augustan Age
Aleksey A. Malyshev and Michail J. Treister
Read more: Expedition Volume 36, Number 2 - 3 Summer/Winter 1994
Expedition Volume 37, Number 1 Spring 1995
Special Issue: Native Voices--Words and Images from the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and Apache
Features
Introduction
Dorothy K. Washburn
Departments
Musings and Visions from the Director's Desk
Expedition Volume 37, Number 2 Summer 1995
Cover: Painting by Ardeth Anderson. The "Splatt" Theory: an artist's conception of how the archaeological site of Ban Chiang, Thailand, was formed.
Features
Shells and Society at Tikal, Guatemala
Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Household Craft Specialization and Shell Ornament Manufacture in Ejutla, Mexico
Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
Routes Through the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Stephen E. Sidebotham and Ronald E. Zitterkopf
Expedition Volume 37, Number 3 Winter 1995
Special Issue: Cambodia--Restoration and Revival
Cover: Photo by David A. Feingold, Ophidian Films, Ltd. The dancer in Cambodia embodies the Khmer ideals of beauty, grace, and continuity.
Hard copies of this issue are sold out.
Features
Cambodia--Restoration and Revival
The Angkorean Temple-Mountain--Diversity, Evolution, Permanence
Thierry Zephir
Two Thousand Years of Engineering Genius on the Angkor Plain
Richard A. Engelhardt
Angkor--Planning for Sustainable Tourism
David Bowden
Expedition Volume 38, Number 1 Spring 1996
Cover: Photo by H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. The current textile inventory of Mrs. Hoan, a weaver in northern Vietnam. Five rolls of white cloth lay at the bottom of her basket. She said this cloth was used for burial shrouds.
Features
Settlement Patterns and Community Organization in the Maya Lowlands
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Tell es-Sweyhat, 1989-1995--A City in Northern Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium B.C.
Richard L. Zettler
Botanical and Faunal Remains from Tell es-Sweyhat
Naomi F. Miller and Jill Ann Weber
Geomagnetic Mapping at Tell es-Sweyhat
Peter Peregrine
Expedition Volume 38, Number 2 Summer 1996
Special Issue: Glass in the Roman World
Cover: Four examples of Roman glass in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (left to right): unguentarium (86-35-102, H. 15.5 cm), onyx-ware bottle (MS 5263, H. 14.0 cm), grape flask (MS 5114, H. 12.4 cm) and square bottle (MS 5124, H. 11.8 cm).
Features
Glass in the Roman World
Lee Horne
Glass, Gold, and Gold-Glasses
David Whitehouse
Early Imperial Roman Glass at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Stuart J. Fleming
