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Expedition Volume 51, Number 1 Spring 2009
Special Issue: Mirroring the Maya
Cover: Mythical dwarf seated with ruler (Photograph K4889 © Justin Kerr).
Features
"Who Shall Be Our Sustainer?" -- Sacred Myth and the Spoken Word
Allen J. Christenson
Out of the Past and into the Night -- Ancient Mythical Dwarfs in Modern Yucatan
Judith A. Storniolo
Crossing Boundaries -- Maya Censers from the Guatemala Highlands
Sarah Kurnick
Bullfights in Mayaland -- How Rural Yucatecans Reinvented "Death in the Afternoon"
Allan Meyers
Expedition Volume 51, Number 2 Summer 2009
Special Feature: His Golden Touch - The Gordion Drawings of Piet de Jong
Cover: The Turkish team excavates Gordion's Iron Age Citadel in 1953.
Features
Gordion in History
Gareth Darbyshire and Gabriel H. Pizzorno
Building Digital Gordion - Coping with the Past in the 21st Century
Gareth Darbyshire and Gabriel H. Pizzorno
"To the Victory of Caracalla" - New Roman Altars at Gordion
Gareth Darbyshire, Kenneth W. Harl, and Andrew L. Goldman
Special Feature
His Golden Touch - The Gordion Drawings of Piet de Jong
Ann Blair Brownlee
Departments
From the Director
Meet the Curators - Lauren Ristvet
From the Archives - Now a Major Motion Picture
Museum Mosaic - People, Places, Projects
Expedition Volume 51, Number 3 Winter 2009
Cover: Aerial view of Butrint, Albania. Photo by Butrint Foundation/Alket Islami.
Features
Unraveling Butrint
James G. Schryver
Decoding Butrint’s Fortifications
Richard Hodges and Nevila Molla
Ugolini’s Presentation of Butrint to the Italian Public
James G. Schryver
Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Butrint
Richard Hodges
Tracking East African Cattle Herders from Prehistory to the Present
Kathleen Ryan, Photography by Jennifer Chiappardi
The Turtles of Philadelphia's Culinary Past
Teagan Schweitzer
Departments
From the Editor
Jane Hickman
From the Director: Creating a Sustainable Butrint
Richard Hodges
Meet the Associate Deputy Director
Margaret Spencer
From the Archives: Edith and Sasha Siemel
Alessandro Pezzati and Darien Sutton
Book News & Reviews: Abydos: Egypt’s First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris
Expedition Volume 52, Number 1 Spring 2010
Cover: Work underway at the ash altar of Zeus, Mt. Lykaion, June 28, 2009. Left to right: Gabe Burkett, Arvey Basa, and Dan Diffendale undertaking the topographical survey; Alexis Belis, Maya Gupta, and Alex Lessie sieving the earth from the trench. Photo by David Gilman Romano.
Features
Excavating at the Birthplace of Zeus: The Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project
David Gilman Romano and Mary E. Voyatzis
In the Heart of the Village: Exploring Archaeological Remains in Chatrikhera Village, Rajasthan, India
Teresa P. Raczek and Namita S. Sugandhi
Ethno-Graphics: Keeping Visual Field Notes in Vietnam
Carol Hendrickson
Departments
From the Editor
Jane Hickman
From the Director: Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle
Richard Hodges
From the Field—A Conservation Management Plan for Preserving Gordion and Its Environs
Portrait—Remembering Bill Coe (1926–2009)
Research Notes—Ernest J. H. Mackay and the Penn Museum
Book News & Reviews— Off the Beaten Path in England and Spain
Expedition Volume 52, Number 2 Summer 2010
Cover: Detail from At the Mosque Door by Osman Hamdi Bey
Features
Archaeologists & Travelers in Ottoman Lands: Three Intersecting Lives
Robert G. Ousterhout
New Discoveries about the Ancient Maya: Excavations at Nakum, Guatemala
Jarosław Zrałka and Wiesław Koszkul
Astronomical Petroglyphs: Searching For Rock Art Evidence for an Ancient Super Aurora
Marinus Anthony Van Der Sluijs and Anthony L. Peratt
Departments
From the Editor
Jane Hickman
From the Director
Richard Hodges
From the Archives: The Pennsylvania Declaration
Alessandro Pezzati
What in the World—A Hidden Gem at the Penn Museum
From the Field— Penn Museum in Laos and an Early Ivory Bracelet from Central Thailand
Around the Museum—Summer in The City
Expedition Volume 52, Number 3 Winter 2010
Cover: Yingpan Man, excavated from Yingpan, Yuli (Lop Nur) County, dates to the 3rd to 4th century CE. His clothing is finely made, and his painted mask is decorated with gold leaf. (Photo credit: Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology Collection)
Features
The Silk Roads in History
Daniel C. Waugh
The Mummies of East Central Asia
Victor H. Mair
Textiles from the Silk Road: Intercultural Exchanges among Nomads, Traders, and Agriculturalists
Angela Sheng
Bronze Age Languages of the Tarim Basin
J.P. Mallory
Departments
From the Editor
Jane Hickman
From the Director
Richard Hodges
Portrait—Dr. Elfriede R. (Kezia) Knauer
What in the World— Ancient and Modern Foods from the Tarim Basin
Research Notes—The Luohan that Came from Afar
Museum Mosaic—People, Places, Projects
Book News & Reviews—Before the Silk Road
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Expedition Volume 53, Number 1 Spring 2011
Cover: Detail from Afghan war rug shown on page 13. Amanullah Khan, depicted here, helped lead Afghanistan to independence in 1919. Photo by Textile Museum of Canada.
Features
Afghan Wars, Oriental Carpets, and Globalization
By Brian Spooner
Resurrecting Gordion: Preserving Turkey's Phyrgian Capital
By Frank G. Matero and C. Brian Rose
In Search of San Pietro D'asso
By Stefano Campana, Michelle Hobart, Richard Hodges, Adrianna de Svastich, and Jennifer McAuley
Archaeometry and Shipwrecks: A Review Article. From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology
By James D. Muhly
Departments
From the Editor
Jane Hickman
From the Director
Richard Hodges
From the Archives—Jim Thompson, the Thai Silk King
What in the World—Telmu and Petrui: A Rediscovered Romance?
From the Field—Guerilla Fashion: Textiles in Motion Push Change in Indian Art
Museum Mosaic—People, Places, Projects
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Expedition Volume 53, Number 2 Summer 2011
Cover: The “Bikini Girls” mosaic, thought to represent an athletic competition, dates to the 4th century AD. Two of the ten athletes are portrayed here: a young woman with hand weights and another woman about to throw a discus. The complete mosaic from Piazza Armerina is on page 34.
Features
Excavating the Roman Peasant
By Kim Bowes, Mariaelena Ghisleni, Cam Grey, and Emanuele Vaccaro
Wine, Slaves, and the Emperor at Villa Magna
By Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline Goodson, and Marco Maiuro
Rediscovering the Heel: Archaeology and History in Northern Apulia
By Giuliano Volpe
The Villa del Casale of Piazza Armerina
By Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio
The Silver Rush in Tuscany's Wild West: Medieval Archaeology in the Metal Hills
By Giovanna Bianchi
Departments
From the Director—Penn Museum and Italy
Richard Hodges
From the Guest Editor—Reimaging Ancient Italy
Kim Bowes
Museum Mosaic—People, Places, Projects
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Expedition Volume 53, Number 3 Winter 2011
Cover: This portion of a famous Minoan fresco depicts both women (white figure) and men (brown figure) engaged in the sport of bull-leaping. It was recovered from the palace at Knossos in Crete, and dates to ca. 1450–1400 BC. The complete fresco is on page 11. Photo courtesy of the Heraklion Museum, Crete.
Features
Bulls and Bull-leaping in the Minoan World
Jeremy McInerney
Penelope's Geese: Pets of the Ancient Greeks
Kenneth Kitchell
A View of the Horse from the Classical Perspective: The Penn Museum Collection
Donald White
From the Director
Richard Hodges
From the Editor
Jane Hickman
From the Field—The Corinth Excavations of 2011
From the Field—Butrint, Albania
In the Shadow of Butrint
The Refuse of Urban History: Excavating the Roman Forum at Butrint
Collection Notes—The Museum’s Online Searchable Database
Book News & Reviews—Animals and Ethics
Museum Mosaic—People, Places, Projects
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Expedition Volume 54, Number 1 Spring 2012
Cover: This jade figurine cached beneath a Copan Acropolis building dedicated by Wi’ Yohl K’inich (Ruler 8) in ca. 541–542 CE represents the rebirth of the Maize God rising from a spondylus shell, a pivotal event during the Maya creation myth. This suggests that Wi’ Yohl K’inich, like other Maya kings, closely identified himself with the Maize God to reinforce his status as a “Lord of Time.” Photo by Kenneth Garrett; excavated by the Early Copan Acropolis Program, Penn Museum; courtesy Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.
Features
Why Maya 2012 Fascinates Us
Anthony F. Aveni
Who Were the Maya?
Robert Sharer
Time, Kingship, and the Maya Universe
Maya Calendars: an Overview
Simon Martin
Time of Kings and Queens
Robert Sharer
Time Beyond Kings
Loa Traxler
2012 and Beyond
Loa Traxler
The Modern Maya and Recent History
Richard M. Leventhal, Carlos Chan Espinosa, and Cristina Coc
Departments
From the Archives — The Excavation of the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copan
Book News & Reviews—Bringing Maya Sculpture to Life
Museum Mosaic—People, Places, Projects
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Expedition Volume 54, Number 2 Summer 2012
Cover: The Undersea Grizzly Bear Helmet (Museum Object #NA5739, Penn Museum Image #151906) was collected by Penn Museum Curator Louis Shotridge in 1917. The helmet, dated ca. 1770–1790, is Tlingit and comes from Klukwan, Alaska. It is made of wood, pigment, spruce root, human hair, abalone shell, and copper. Shotridge wears a similar helmet on page 12 of this issue.
