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Vol. 2 / No. 1

By: James House, Jr.

Tiwi Burial Poles as Sculpture

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Vol. 2 / No. 3

By: Jean Gordon Lee

A Korean Potter’s Masterpiece

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Dr. Rainey operating the resistivity equipment

Vol. 2 / No. 4

By: Matthew W. Stirling, Froelich Rainey and Matthew W. Stirling, Jr.

Electronics and Archaeology

Vol. 5 / No. 4

By: Ruben E. Reina

The Potter and The Farmer: The Fate of Two Innovators in a Maya Village

Chinautla is a small Maya town of approximately 1500 people, descendants of the Pokomam-speaking group which once occupied large portions […]

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Vol. 6 / No. 1

By: Aubrey S. Trik

The Splendid Tomb of Temple I At Tikal, Guatemala

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Vol. 6 / No. 3

By: Arthur C. Clarke

Ceylon and the Underwater Archaeologist

Portable Architecture

What is a Bedouin tent but an eminently practical, completely portable house demonstrating all the principal elements of permanent architecture. […]

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Vol. 10 / No. 4

By: Christopher L. Hamlin

A Proto-Elamite Account Tablet from Susa

Among the objects recently acquired by the Museum in its exchange with the Musee du Louvre is the Proto-Elamite account […]

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Vol. 10 / No. 4

By: Alfred Kidder, II

Two Peruvian Frogs

On a recent expedition to my optician’s on Chestnut Street I spotted an interesting Peruvian pottery frog effigy (now Museum […]

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Vol. 10 / No. 4

By: Robert Netting

Kofyar Building in Mud and Stone

The Kofyar are a tough, hard working, notably independent people living in Northern Nigeria. They are hill men whose individualism […]

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Vol. 10 / No. 4

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

Early Works on the Acropolis at Susa: The Beginning of Prehistory in Iraq and Iran

The archaeological ruins of Chalchuapa lie within a broad, fertile valley in the western portion of seldom-visited El Salvador, the […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 2

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

A Decade in Iran

The establishment of a basic chronology consisting of broadly defined cultural phases from the earliest village settlements to the beginning […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 2

By: Karen L. Mohr-Chavez

Excavations in the Cuzco-Puno Area of Southern Highland Peru

Cuzco, once capital of the grand and extensive Inca empire before the Spanish conquest in 1532, and now justly titled […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 2

By: Bruce Lutz

Archaeological Investigations Near Unalakleet, Alaska

Preliminary excavations were begun near the village of Unalakleet on the coast of Norton Sound this past summer. Several of […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 3

By: Olga Linares De Sapir

Diola Pottery of the Fogny and the Kasa

Separated from the modern capital of Dakar by rivers and difficult roads, the Diola of the Casamance in southern Senegal, […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 3

By: Frances Eyman and John Witthoft

Metallurgy of the Tlingit, Dene, and Eskimo

Tlingit ethnographic collections include large numbers of copper objects in many types, most of them made from the commercial copper […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 3

By: Kenneth D. Matthews

A Boy’s First Shave

Although it is suggested that this marble bust from the University Museum’s collections was found on Cyprus, the pleasant-looking young […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 3

By: Lanny Bell

Return to Dra Abu el-Naga

In the winter of 1968 the staff of the Dra Abu el-Naga Project once more assembled in Egypt, for another […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 3

By: Geoffrey Pearce

The Conservation of Wall Paintings in Tomb 35 at Dra Abu el-Naga

A preliminary examination of the walls and ceiling of Tomb 35 revealed that although its remaining plastered sections have suffered […]

The Greek Bronze Age ended in violent disarray. Most of the Mycenaean fortresses were burned or abandoned within the space […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 1

By: George F. Dales and Louis Flam

On Tracking Woolly Kullis and the Like

Archaeology is a many-faced deity. It (she?) can smile benevolently upon you and order gold and fame to be rained […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 1

By: Gayle Wever

A Persian Puzzle: A Bronze Sword from Teheran

The ability to recognize modem alterations and outright forgeries is important to all students of archaeology. Consequently, in its training […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 1

By: David O'Connor

Abydos and the University Museum: 1898-1969

After its formation in 1887 the University Museum rapidly developed its role in the exploration of extinct and living cultures […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 2

By: Pamela Hemphill

An Archaeological Survey of Southern Etruria

Southern Etruria lies in the volcanic hills north and west of the Tiber. This region was occupied by the Bronze […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 2

By: Froelich Rainey

Tikal: A Fourteen Year Program Now Completed

Writing for the Museum Bulletin in December 1956 about our hopes and plans for the clearing, excavation, and consolidation of […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 2

By: Alan McPherron and Elizabeth K. Ralph

Magnetometer Location of Neolithic Houses in Yugoslavia

The first cesium magnetometer survey of prehistoric sites in Yugoslavia was carried out by Elizabeth K. Ralph in June 1969, […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 2

By: Ruben E. Reina, Annette B. Weiner and Edward O'Flaherty, S.J.

Ethnohistory and Archaeology in Colonial Antigua, Guatemala

The visitor to modern Antigua, Guatemala, receives the impression that he is stepping back into the Colonial period. The ruins […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 3

By: Kenneth D. Matthews

The Imperial Wardrobe of Ancient Rome

To protect his Danubian provinces, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius personally led campaigns against the Marcomanni from A.D. 166 to 172 […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 3

By: David Crownover

Alfred Bendiner and Iraq

Architect and artist, “Al” Bendiner, as a full generation of The University Museum called him, served at various times on […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 3

By: Erle Leichty

A Remarkable Forger

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Vol. 12 / No. 4

By: Sergio J. Chavez and Karen L. Mohr Chavez

Newly Discovered Monoliths From the Highlands of Puno, Peru

The archaeologist must deal with many kinds of evidence from the past, including such obstinate creatures as mute monoliths, those […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 1

By: Kenneth D. Matthews

Roman Aqueducts: Technical Aspects of their Construction

The aqueducts of ancient Roman times represent the efforts of government to provide city dwellers with an abundant supply of […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 1

By: Jeffrey Zelitch

The Lakota Sun Dance

Wiwanyag Wacipi, the Gazing-at-the-Sun Dance is now the only public ceremony of the Lakota (Teton-Sioux) religion. It is, however, not […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 1

By: David I. Owen

Picking up the Pieces: The Salvage Excavation of a Looted Fifth Century B.C. Shipwreck in the Straits of Messina

The University Museum underwater excavations in the Straits of Messina were undertaken with a grant from the Geographical Society of […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 1

By: Elizabeth Lyons

Figurines From Chansen

In 1968 and 1969 the University Museum team of George Dales, Bennett Bronson, and Elkins Weatherill in conjunction with members […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 1

By: Peter Throckmorton

More Lost Ships

This article was written before the Throckmortons returned to Greece last spring. We have just received a note from Mr. […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 2

By: Ljubica D. Popovich

An Ethiopian Holy Land

Elevated heavenward by the central mountain massif of Ethiopia, forever tied to the earth with the vein of rock out […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 2

By: Margaret Plass

The Dance of Sigi

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Vol. 14 / No. 1

By: James B. Pritchard

The Phoenicians in Their Homeland

The Phoenician expansion westward for three thousand miles across the Mediterranean and beyond to the shores of the Atlantic was […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 1

By: Payson D. Sheets

An Ancient Natural Disaster

Recent geological and archaeological investigations in Chalchuapa, El Salvador, together have provided the probable answer to a question which has […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 1

By: Alfred Friendly

A Doomed Aqueduct

A unique and fascinating portion of one of the finest aqueducts of the Roman world will be lost in the […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 2

By: Ekpo O. Eyo

New Treasures From Nigeria

Recent excavations in western Nigeria conducted by the Department of Antiquities of the Government of Nigeria indicate that the town […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 2

By: Vaughn E. Crawford

Excavations in the Swamps of Sumer

My first visit to Al-Hiba was in November, 1953, when 1 was a member of an archaeological survey led by […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 2

By: B.K. Thapar

The Buried Past of Dehli

According to popular belief there have been eight imperial cities of Delhi of which New Delhi, or Raisina as it […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 2

By: Karen Goodrich-Hedrick and John D. Hedrick

Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac

Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s dictum, “Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows” is too often realized in ethnological specimens relegated […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 2

By: Jeffrey Klein

A Greek Metalworking Quarter: Eighth Century Excavations on Ischia

Ancient notices of the Greek colony of Pithekoussai, the present island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, are surprisingly […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 3

By: Elizabeth Kennedy Easby

Seafarers and Sculptors of the Caribbean

The original discoverers of the islands we all the Antilles or West Indies came at least 4000 years before Columbus […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 3

By: Ward H. Goodenough

Social Implications of Population Control

The cost of modern technology and of a high material standard of living confronts us with increasing insistence. Jean Mayer […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 3

By: Virginia Wayland

The Indian Looks at the White Man: Playing-card Portraits of the Old West

Anglo artists such as Frederick Remington and George Catlin and writers such as John Gregory Bourke and Josiah Gregg have […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 3

By: Wilhelm G. Solheim, II

Early Man in Southeast Asia

New discoveries by the Thailand Fine Arts Department-University of Hawaii Archaeology Program in Northern Thailand are well on the way […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 3

By: Roger Keesing

The Anthropologist’s Dilemma: Empathy and Analysis Among the Solomon Islanders

Just over a century ago white men in sailing ships began to carry off young Solomon Islanders from the coasts […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 4

By: S.A. Goudsmit

Not For the Art Trade

“What you dig up out of the ground is no good for the art trade.” This was the doctrine of […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 4

By: A. Gutkind Bulling

Archaeological Excavation in China: 1949-1966

Much too little is known in this country about archaeological work and excavations carried out in China since the People’s […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 4

By: Margaret L. Arrott

A Unique Method of Making Pottery: Santa Apolonia, Guatemala

From long before dawn on Thursday mornings the narrow dirt road leading from San Jose Poaquil through Santa Apolonia to […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 4

By: Valerio Cianfarani

The Necropolis of Campovalano: Mysteries of Middle Adriatic Culture

Recent excavations at Campovalano, in the Abruzzi region of Italy, have reaffirmed the existence of a little-known culture which flowered […]

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Vol. 14 / No. 4

By: John D. Hedrick and Karen Goodrich-Hedrick

The Problem of Polynesian Origin

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Vol. 15 / No. 3

By: Charles F. Bridgman

The Radiography of Museum Objects

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Vol. 16 / No. 4

By: McGuire Gibson

The Twelfth Season at Nippur

About the time a report on the eleventh season of the Oriental Institute’s expedition to Nippur was appearing in Expedition […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 1

By: Mildred A. Konan

Calabashes in Northern Nigeria

Several women huddled together in the shade of old trees in a small open market. They sat on the sandy […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 1

By: Jean Silverman

A Lost Notebook From the Excavations at Gournia, Crete

In the spring of 1973 a small notebook, titled “Inventory of Gournia Finds. Gournia, by class,” was presented to the […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 1

By: Michael Zimmerman

New Approaches to the Study of Ancient Disease

The elderly Eskimo woman moved aside the notched stones which held down the skin cover on the sod roof and […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 1

By: Leland Meister

Yemen: Breaking With the Feudal Past

Two aspects of the agricultural system in Yemen warrant description: the technology of the farmers and the relationship existing between […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 1

By: Musa Baran

Children’s Games

Child’s play—it is not as simple as we think. Men and even animals begin their lives in play. Grandfathers pass […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 2

By: H.D. Sankalia, Z.D. Ansari and M.K. Dhavalikar

An Early Farmer’s Village in Central India

The first prehistoric farming communities excavated in central India were found at the sites of Nasik, Jorwe and Nevasa (Sankalia […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 2

By: Ahman Hasad Dani

Origins of Bronze Age Cultures in the Indus Basin: A Geographic Perspective

PAST CONCEPTS We have been studying the problems of the Bronze Age Cultures in the Indus Basin for almost half […]

The Greek historian Herodotus (490/480-425 B.C.], in his History of the Persian Wars, included an excursus on the ethnography of […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: Alfred Friendly

Vindolanda

In the past two years British archaeologists have discovered and in some part deciphered more than 240 fragments of 1st […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: David S. Reese

Men, Saints or Dragons?

“There were giants in the earth in those days…” Genesis 6:4 During the Pleistocene epoch of pre-history (three million to […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: Tamara Stech Wheeler, Robert Maddin and James D. Muhly

Ingots and the Bronze Age Copper Trade in the Mediterranean: A Progress Report

The last twenty years have seen an increase in scientific studies of archaeological materials resulting from the desire for greater […]

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Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: Donald White

Archaic Cyrene and the Cult of Demeter and Persephone

The rapid outward movement of the ancient Greeks from their mainland homes between the 10th and 6th centuries B.C., first […]

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Vol. 18 / No. 1

By: DeVerne Reed Smith

The Palauan Storyboards: From Traditional Architecture to Airport Art

As tourism has steadily increased in the Pacific, the sale of local handicrafts has become a profitable source of income […]

Clay is a soft and rich earthy substance consisting primarily of hydrated silicates of aluminum. It is a product of […]

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Vol. 19 / No. 3

By: Paul G. Brewster

The Strange Practice of Firewalking

Of all phenomena, the ability of certain individuals to walk barefoot through fire without being burned is perhaps the most […]

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Vol. 19 / No. 4

By: Marija Gimbutas

Varna: A Sensationally Rich Cemetery of the Karanovo Civilization, About 4500 B.C.

The cemetery of Varna on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria, excavated in 1973-76, is a prime addition to our […]

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Vol. 19 / No. 4

By: A. Gutkind Bulling

A Late Shang Place of Sacrifice and its Historical Significance

In 1959 the Museum in Nanking made a trial dig in a place called Ch’iu-wan in T’ungshan county, in the […]

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Vol. 19 / No. 4

By: James D. Muhly

Editorial

The number of books published in the general field of archaeology seems to increase every year. And every year it […]

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Vol. 19 / No. 4

By: Orhan Aytug Tasyurek

The Urartian Bronze Hoard From Giyimli

Urartians, who appear with the name “Uruadri” in the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions after the 13th century B.C., had established a […]

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Vol. 19 / No. 4

By: H. Bartlett Wells

Ancient Inventions for Tooling the Surfaces of Objects in Softer Metals

Collectors of ancient Greek copper coins have often been puzzled by central pits that they find in the metal of […]

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Vol. 19 / No. 4

By: Elizabeth Lyons

Southeast Asia: The Changing Scene

In January of this year, 1977, I was in Burma trying to recruit a Burmese archaeologist for the new Ford […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Fall 1977: The Director Writes

At the conclusion of the distinguished directorship of Froelich Rainey, reaching back over some of the most formative years of […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Sir Max Mallowan

Recollections of C. Leonard Woolley

On the grounds that I am one of the living survivors of the early seasons at Ur, (1922-1934) the Editor […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

Archival Glimpses of the Ur Expedition in the Years 1920 to 1926

All expeditions are a complex network of interlocking political and social events involving people, institutions and governments. Among the common […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: P. R. S. Moorey

What Do We Know About the People Buried in the Royal Cemetery?

Woolley’s excavation of the royal graves at Ur is one of the technical triumphs of Near Eastern field archaeology and […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Samuel Noah Kramer

The Ur Excavations and Sumerian Literature

Leonard Woolley’s excavations at Ur have been justly acclaimed for their extraordinary, unexpected, and invaluable archaeological discoveries: the royal cemetery, […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 2

By: John R. Abercrombie

Egyptian Papyri: The University Museum's Collection of Papyri and Related Materials

In a second century A.D. Greek epistle a well-intentioned father offers some free advice to his son, who was probably […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 2

By: Jeffrey S. Soles

Mochlos: A New Look at Old Excavations: The University Museum's Work on Crete

The island of Mochlos, a large outcropping of rock about 350 meters long, rises from the sea just off the […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 2

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Winter 1978: The Director Writes

In the last issue I asked some questions about what sort of institution the University Museum ought to be. In […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 2

By: A. Gutkind Bulling

Ancient Chinese Maps: Two maps discovered in a Han Dynasty tomb from the second century B.C.

Among the many important excavations carried out in recent years in the People’s Republic of China three tombs deserve special […]

There can be no doubt that the Mycenaean civilization of Bronze Age Greece was destroyed in the course of the […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 3

By: Frank L. Lambrecht

Mabudu: A Report on a Vanishing Culture in the Northeastern Corner of the Congo Basin as it existed in 1948

In the northeastern corner of the Congo Basin rainforest lies a region known as Kibali-Ituri named after the two rivers […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Summer 1978: The Director Writes

The Museum holds some of man’s great works of art—from the world of the Maya, from Burner, from China—but it […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Ram Gophna

En-Bensor: An Egyptian First Dynasty Staging Post in the Northern Negev

The lower part of the Besor Valley (Wadi Ghazza) cut its way through the flat loess lands of the northwestern […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Ze'ev Herzog, Anson F. Rainey, Ora Negbi and Shmuel Moshkowitz

Tel Michal: A Coastal Site in the Sharon Plain

Tel Michal (Makmish) is situated on a kurkar (sandstone) ridge covered with sand dunes in the southern environs of the […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Itzhak Beit-Arieh

A Canaanite Site Near Sheikh Mukhsen: Real Discoveries in Southern Sinai

During the past ten years, Israeli archaeologists have been investigating early sites which have been discovered in the wilderness of […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Moshe Kochavi

Canaanite Aphek: Its Acropolis and Inscriptions

Excavation of Aphek-Antipatris Since 1972 a two-months excavation season has been carried out each summer at Tel Aphek (Tell Ras […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Ze'ev Meshel

Kuntillet ‘Ajrud: An Israelite Religious Center in Northern Sinai

By which routes did the kings of Judah travel to Eilat and Ezion-Geber? And where was the southwestern border of […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: David Ussishkin

Lachish: Renewed Archaeological Excavations

Lachish and the Previous Excavations Lachish was one of the most important cities of the Biblical era in the Holy […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Aharon Kempinski

Tel Masos: Its Importance in Relation to the Settlement of the Tribes of Israel in the Northern Negev.

Tel Masos (Arabic Hirbet eI-Meshash) is situated on the edge of Wadi Beer-sheba, approximately 12 km. east of the modern […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: A. Horowitz

Human Settlement Pattern in Israel: A Discussion of the Impact of Environment

Israel is situated at the juxtaposition of several major environmental domains: the Euro-Siberian, Irano-Turanian, Mediterranean, Saharian and Sudanese. Longitudinally, the […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Ze'ev Herzog

Israelite City Planning: Seen in the Light of the Beer-Sheba and Arad Excavations.

Although numerous Israelite cities have been excavated in Israel, the relatively small proportion of the total city area excavated and […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 4

By: Jak Yakar and Ayşe Gursan-Salzmann

The Provinces of Malatya and Sivas: An Archaeological Survey of Preclassical Sites

The Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University has in recent years promoted the active participation and collaboration of some […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 1

By: Keith DeVries

Diving Into the Mediterranean: Greek and Etruscan Paintings Reveal a Sport of Antiquity

A scattering of representations and ancient written references, ambiguous or unhelpful when studied separately, reveal when brought together a not […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 1

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Fall 1978: The Director Writes

In the Summer issue of Expedition, in writing about the University Museum’s collections, I touched on the question of acquisitions […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 1

By: Borislav Jovanovic

The Oldest Copper Metallurgy in the Balkans: A Study of the Diffusion of Copper from Asia Minor to Southeastern Europe.

The flourishing of copper metallurgy during the Eneolithic or Chalcolithic period in the Balkans and Carpathian Basin has led to […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 1

By: Elfriede R. Knauer

Toward a History of the Sleeved Coat: A Study of the Impact of an Ancient Eastern Garment on the West.

“Voici le prince Guillaume, futur prince héritier, il est dans le plus extravagant et le plus complet uniforme de hussards rouges qui […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 1

By: Hamish A. Forbes and Lin Foxhall

“The Queen of All Trees”: Preliminary Notes on the Archaeology of the Olive.

A visitor walking through a village in southern Greece early this winter might well hear ominous rumblings coming from the […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: Bernard Wailes

Editorial: Archaeological Salvage in Egypt: An Example of International Cooperation

This issue of Expedition is devoted entirely to the involvement of the University Museum in Egyptology, from the 1890’s to […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: David O'Connor

The University Museum Excavations at the Palace-City of Malkata

Urbanism was an essential element in ancient Egyptian culture, for its predominantly rural society was held together, and its extraordinary […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: Donald B. Redford

The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations

Scholarly study of the reign of Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt (ca. 1375-1357 B.C.), has focused with justification on the last […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: William Kelly Simpson

The Pennsylvania-Yale Giza Project

The story of the Pennsylvania-Yale Project at Giza takes us back to the beginning of American archaeological work in Egypt. […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: David O'Connor

Abydos: The University Museum-Yale Expedition

The provincial centers of ancient Egypt were vital elements in its political, economic and religious systems and their remains reflect […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Winter 1979: The Director Writes

In the last issue I wrote about the great size of our collections, the invisible nine-tenths—if not ninety-nine hundredths—of the […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: Chester Beatty, IV

Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr.

Not many men would, some sixty years after their death, be celebrated by a great research institution, but Eckley B. […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 2

By: David O'Connor and David Silverman

The University Museum in Egypt: The Past

Introduction “Do not reproach someone older than you, for he has seen the Sun before you.” The Instruction of Amenemope, […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 3

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Spring 1979: The Director Writes

It’s all very well to write somewhat owlishly about ‘reserve collections’ and the horizontal’ versus ‘the vertical’ approach to museum […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 3

By: Bernard Wailes

Ireland and Europe: Introduction

Ireland: Archaeology and History The equation of ‘civilization’ with cities centralized government and literacy has long prejudiced us against societies […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 3

By: Sean O Nuallain

The Megalithic Tombs of Ireland: Neolithic Tombs and Their Art.

The earliest evidence of human activity in Ireland occurs mainly in the northeast of the country and has been assigned […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 3

By: Holly Burton

The Arrival of the Celts in Ireland: Archaeology and Linguistics.

When did the Celts arrive in Ireland? The question has plagued linguists and archaeologists alike for a century. By the […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 3

By: Joan J. Taylor

Early Bronze Age Technology and Trade: The Evidence of Irish Gold.

Ireland was the focus of the Western European “Golden Age” by virtue of the impressive quantity of gold ornaments produced […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 3

By: Bella Schauman

Early Irish Manuscripts: The Art of the Scribes.

Ireland’s early books are interesting both in and of themselves and as cultural artifacts. The following pages present an archaeological […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Margaret Thompson

Hoards and Overstrikes: The Numismatic Evidence

Coins contribute little to a discussion of Mediterranean trade in the 6th century, for there are no relevant hoards which […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: John Boardman

The Athenian Pottery Trade: The Classical Period

Athenian pottery traveled far, and often in quantity. The limits of distribution range from Spain through central Europe, South Russia, […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Summer 1979: The Director Writes

An important—perhaps too important—way of judging a museum’s success or failure is to look at the number of its visitors. […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Cynthia Jones Eiseman

The Mediterranean Market: Aspects of Trade in Classical Times

Introduction In this issue of Expedition we publish the proceedings of a symposium entitled “The Mediterranean Market: Aspects of Trade […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: G. Kenneth Sams

Imports at Gordion: Lydian and Persian Periods

Sometime during the first quarter of the 7th century, invading marauders known to history as the Kimmerians brought to an […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Peter S. Wells and Larissa Bonfante

West-Central Europe and the Mediterranean: The Decline in Trade in the Fifth Century B.C.

The Problem Massalia, the Greek city on the site of modern Marseille, was founded about 600 B.C. by Ionian Greeks […]

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Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Lionel Casson

Traders and Trading: Classical Athens

In the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Athens fed its population-150,000 by conservative estimates—chiefly on grain imported from south Russia, […]

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Vol. 22 / No. 1

By: Elizabeth Lyons

A Pair of Chinese Grave Urns: A Recent Gift to the Oriental Section of the Museum

The Chinese collection of the University Museum has recently been enriched, and enlivened, by a pair of southern Chinese grave […]

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Vol. 22 / No. 1

By: A. John Gwinnett and Leonard Gorelick

Ancient Lapidary: A Study Using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Functional Analysis

In the chronology of the development of ancient stone tools, drills and drilling were late additions to paleolithic technology. They […]

Often a museum exhibition on a special subject will bring to light interesting objects in private hands. A casual visitor […]

Archaeological evidence indicates that the earliest domestication of sheep and goats occurred in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. […]

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Vol. 22 / No. 4

By: Christopher L. Hamlin

The Temporal Dimension: Monitoring the Changing Ecology of Settlement in Turan

The settlement system in Turan is changing continously. Some of the changes are cyclical, related to such regular processes as […]

The discovery came, one could say, just in the nick of time. The Quirigua Project had been scheduled to run […]

Introduction Bartram’s Garden, located on the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia, was the home of John Bartram, the eighteenth century […]

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Vol. 23 / No. 3

By: Ilene M. Nicholas

Investigating An Ancient Suburb: Excavations at the TUV Mound, Tal-e-Malyan, Iran

Archaeology is often described as the science of the human past, a discipline which seeks to explain such complex phenomena […]

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Vol. 23 / No. 3

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Spring 1981

For over ninety years The University Museum has been digging ancient sites and studying contemporary traditional communities virtually alI over […]

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Vol. 23 / No. 4

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

Carleton S. Coon

Carleton Coon was a large bear of a man with a shock of white hair and a devilish sense of […]

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Vol. 23 / No. 4

By: Froelich Rainey

Chester Gorman

The tragic death of Chester Gorman just as he was completing the proof of one of the world’s great archaeological […]

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Vol. 23 / No. 4

By: Gregory L. Possehl

Cambay Beadmaking: An Ancient Craft in Modern India

Cambay is a small city, population about 50,000, on the coast of Gujarat state in western India. This name is […]

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Vol. 23 / No. 4

By: Darlene Loding

Lapidaries in the Ur III Period: Written Sources Concerning Stoneworkers (ca. 2000 B.C.)

Evidence for the products manufactured by stoneworkers in Mesopotamia in ancient times is, of course, best displayed by those objects […]

With the return of Martin Biddle to England at the end of June, The University Museum has passed into a […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 2

By: George A. Corbin

Chachet Baining Art: In a Day and Night Dance Celebration at Walmatki Village on the Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

The Chachet Baining people live in the northwestern area of the Gazelle Peninsula. They have long been known for their […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 2

By: William H. Davenport

A History of the Museum’s Polynesian Collection: The Curators Write

On January 28th the Museum will open a new permanent exhibition called “Polynesia.” The new exhibition replaces one called “Oceania,” […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 2

By: Edward F. Wente

Funerary Beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians: An Interpretation of the Burials and the Texts

Some Egyptologists feel that mummies create a false impression of an ancient people preoccupied with death and morbidity, and therefore […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 2

By: Bernard V. Bothmer

On Realism in Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: Of the Old Kingdom

Among the major arts associated with the funerary cults of ancient Egypt—sculpture, relief and painting—none gives us a deeper understanding […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 2

By: Robert M. Hill, II

Ancient Maya Houses: At Cauinal and Pueblo Viejo Chixoy el Quiche, Guatemala

The unique combination of Maya chronicles, e.g. the Popol Vuh and Annals of the Cakchiquels, descriptions written by Spanish friars […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 3

By: Robert M. Hill, II

Ancient Maya Houses: At Cauinal and Pueblo Viejo Chixoy, el Quiche, Guatemala — II

INTRODUCTORY NOTE The text of this article, with accompanying photographs, was published in the last issue of Expedition: Vol. 24, […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 3

By: Nicholas Freidin

Early Iron Age Luxury Imports: Into the Paris Basin

Introduction The study of Early Iron Age luxury bronze imports in Trans-Alpine Europe has tended to spotlight the better-documented regions […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 3

By: Robert L. Trescher

A New Director of the University Museum: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

At the end of the decade, the University will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Museum, and […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 3

By: Irene Bald Romano

Early Greek Idols: Their Appearance and Significance in the Geometric, Orientalizing and Archaic Periods

For many the sculpture of ancient Greece is almost a synonym for Greek culture itself. Sculpture did indeed play an […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 3

By: Gretchen Anderson Gwynne

Pipestave Hollow Ideography: Possible Calendrical Notations from the Northeast

Alexander Marshack (1972) has argued that some incised designs on Old World artifacts—mainly from the Upper Palaeolithic—were notational and, in […]

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Vol. 24 / No. 3

By: Arthur Miller

Archaeological Looting: A New Approach to the Problem

Introduction On September 18, 1981, Guatemala and its partner in archaeological research, The University Museum, suffered an indirect attack by […]

Since 1966 excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), a site in central Italy about twenty kilometers south of Siena (Fig. 1), […]

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Vol. 25 / No. 1

By: Helen Schenck

The Iron Industry Underground: The Archaeology of Historic American Iron Technology

Introduction The traditional date for the founding of the American iron industry is 1622. In that year the English-based Virginia […]

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Vol. 25 / No. 2

By: Mary Elizabeth Ruwell and Eleanor M. King

Rediscovering the Eskimo: From the Archives

The University Museum Archives represents a unique resource for researchers in archaeology, anthropology, history, classics and related fields. A preliminary […]

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Vol. 25 / No. 2

By: Sandra T. Barnes and Paula Ben-Amos

Benin, Oyo, and Dahomey: Warfare, State Building, and the Sacralization of Iron in West African History

Note This article was intended originally for EXPEDITION 25 no. 1 (Fall 1902), the special issue on Archaeometallurgy. For reasons […]

Perhaps no other topic in Islamic law has drawn such attention in the West as that of the purported low […]

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Vol. 25 / No. 3

By: Leonard Gorelick and A. John Gwinnett

Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling: An Experimental Perspective on a Scholarly Disagreement

More than most technical procedures in the ancient world, drilling of hard stone such as quartz and granite has evoked […]

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Vol. 25 / No. 4

By: Elfriede Regina Knauer

The Fifth Century A.D. Buddhist Cave Temples At Yün-Kang, North China: A Look at Their Western Connections

The Yün-kang caves belong to a string of early Buddhist cave temples that stretches across northern China from Kansu in […]

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Vol. 25 / No. 4

By: Mary Bert Gutman

The Women’s Committee: Its History, Aims, and Accomplishments

Introduction With the Centennial of the University Museum approaching, various projects on its history are under way, and some may […]

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Vol. 25 / No. 4

By: Elizabeth Simpson

Reconstructing An Ancient Table: The 'Pagoda' Table from Tumulus MM at Gordion

The University Museum excavations at Gordion in central Turkey were begun in 1950 under the direction of Rodney S. Young, […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 1

By: Marilyn Goldberg

Tarquinia Antefixes: A View of the History of an Etruscan City-State

In The University Museum is a collection of architectural fragments from the Etruscan city-state of Tarquinia (Fig. 2), perhaps best […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 1

By: Jordan M. Wright

‘The Highland Show’: Mount Hagen/Goroka, Papua New Guinea

The highland regions of Papua New Guinea were virtually unknown to outsiders until explorations during the 1930s revealed that hundreds […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 1

By: Philip P. Betancourt, Mary G. Ciaccio, Brigit Crowell, Jean M. Donohoe and R. Curtis Green

Ceramic Stands: A Group of Domestic and Ritual Objects from Crete and the Near East

Cylindrical stands for pottery were used by several ancient cultures in the eastern Mediterranean, but their development among the Minoan […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 1

By: Robert J. Sharer

Alfred P. Maudslay: Pioneer Maya Archaeologist: A Review Article

A century ago the splendid ruins of Maya civilization, first made famous by the travel accounts of John Lloyd Stephens […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 1

By: Erle Leichty, James Muhly, Barbara Murray, Martha Phillips, Jennifer Quick and Bernard Wailes

Geraldine Bruckner: An Appreciation by Past and Present Expedition Staff

Geraldine Bruckner, aged eighty-two and Expedition’s Associate Editor, died on 9 August 1983 after a short illness. It would be […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 2

By: Susan A. Kaplan

Introduction – Winter 1984

Eskimos and North American Indians first came to the attention of Europeans ca. A.D. 1000, when the Norse journeyed to […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 2

By: Mikhail A. Chlenov and Igor I. Krupnik

Whale Alley: A Site on the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia

In August of 1976, a small group of anthropologists led by M. A. Chlenov discovered on the now uninhabited island […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 2

By: Susan A. Kaplan, Richard H. Jordan and Glenn W. Sheehan

An Eskimo Whaling Outfit From Sledge Island, Alaska

In 1912 William B. Van Valin, an elementary school teacher stationed in Sinuk, Alaska, ushered his students aboard the schooner […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 2

By: William W. Fitzhugh

Images From the Past: Thoughts on Bering Sea Art and Eskimo Culture

Nearly fifty years ago Henry B. Collins completed his now-classic study on the last 2000 years of Eskimo prehistory in […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 2

By: Bernadette Driscoll

Sapangat: Inuit Beadwork in the Canadian Arctic

The advent of European exploration introduced the brightly colored glass bead to the Inuit (Eskimo) seamstresses of the Canadian Arctic. […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 3

By: Arjun Appadurai

Wells in Western India: Irrigation and Cooperation in an Agricultural Society

Introduction The principal purpose of this paper is to decribe the social arrangement surrounding access to water from open-surface wells […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 3

By: Mario A. Del Chiaro

Etruscan Bird-Askoi: Painted Vases in the Shape of Birds

Vases in the form of animals or birds (askoi; askos, singular) have a remarkably long history in Western and Far […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 3

By: Daniel T. Potts

Northeastern Arabia: From the Seleucids to the Earliest Caliphs

The course of Near Eastern archaeology, as we are seeing very vividly today, is highly susceptible to the winds of […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 3

By: Jay Schwartz, George Brooks and John Herrmann

The Merenptah Palace Project of 1983-84: Museum Briefs

Egypt is famous for its royal tombs and pyramids, but we know surprisingly little about the ceremonial and political activities […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 3

By: Barbara J. Hayden

Late Bronze Age Tylissos: House Plans and Cult Center

Introduction The best-known period of Cretan prehistory is the Minoan Neopalatial or Late Minoan (LM) I period, encompassing approximately one […]

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Vol. 26 / No. 4

By: Bill Donner

Sikaiana: A Contemporary Polynesian Society

Sikaiana is located about 90 miles east of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands (see Fig. 2). It consists of […]

Along the northern edge of he Mesopotamian lowlands ies a piedmont zone consisting of rolling plains with grassy steppe vegetation […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 1

By: David O'Connor

In Memoriam: Rudolf Anthes

Dr. Rudolf Anthes died peacefully on January 5th, 1985. in West Berlin: he was 89 years old. Dr. Anthes was […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 1

By: Callum Thompson

Dorset Shamanism: Excavations in Northern Labrador

Introduction In 1977, a Dorset Eskimo site on Shuldham Island in northern Labrador was found by a biologist intent on examining […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: Donald White

Roman Athletics: Classical Antecedents to the National Mania

I: Contrasting Attitudes “Modern versus the Antique “In the Michaelmas term after leaving school, Tom Brown received a summons from […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: Murray C. McClellan

“To Play Properly With A Glass Ball”: An Unusual Object in The University Museum

A curious glass ball (Figs. 1, 3, 4) housed in the Mediterranean Section of The University Museum helps us to […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: Christopher Jones

The Rubber Ball Game: A Universal Mesoamerican Sport

An extremely athletic sport was played by the Aztec, the Maya, and other peoples of Prehispanic Mesoamerica, that area of […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: Marshall Joseph Becker

Lacrosse: Political Organization in North America as Reflected in Athletic Competition

Introduction The increasing popularity of lacrosse on college playing fields and in other schools and clubs throughout North America reflects […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: John L. Cotter

The History of Sporting America: Philadelphia Pastimes

Archaeological traces of sports are often ephemeral, especially in North America. The Indians left a few ball courts, notably in […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: David Gilman Romano

Introduction – Fall 1985

One of the most popular aspects of modern western culture is its universal interest in sports and athletics. Our world […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: Ake W. Sjoberb

“Trials of Strength”: Athletics in Mesopotamia

Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk (modern Warka in southern Iraq), was on his way to the place where a couch […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: David Gilman Romano

Boycotts, Bribes and Fines: The Ancient Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Gaines are now one of the most widely publicized events in the world. In 1984, it was […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: Karen Brown Vellucci

Etruscan Athletics: Glimpses of an Elusive Civilization

Background The Etruscans represent one of the earliest examples of biased media coverage—a problem originating with the authors of antiquity […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 2

By: Donald White

The Game of Trigon

From Roman Athletics: Classical Antecedents to the National Mania “All at once we saw a bald old man [Trimalchio–Ed.] in […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 3

By: Mary Ellen Miller

Tikal, Guatemala: A Rationale for the Placement of the Funerary Pyramids

For more than a hundred years, the towering pyramids at Tikal, Guatemala, have captured both popular and scholarly fancy. They […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 3

By: Robert J. Sharer

Introduction – Winter 1985

The civilization created by the ancient Maya is recognized throughout the world as one of the most notable achievements of […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 3

By: Robert J. Sharer

Archaeology and Epigraphy Revisited: An Archaeological Enigma and the Origins of Maya Writing

In a previous paper (Sharer in press), I discussed the question of the origins of Maya civilization and one of […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 3

By: Christopher Jones

Maya Hieroglyphs: A History of the Decipherment

To those familiar with the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Babylonian or Assyrian cuneiform, the lack of progress in the […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 3

By: Elin C. Danien

Send Me Mr. Burkitt…Some Whisky and Wine!: Early Archaeology in Central America

At the end of the last century, the pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico and Guatemala attracted adventurers and archaeologists whose names […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 3

By: William A. Haviland

Population and Social Dynamics: The Dynasties and Social Structure of Tikal

When dealing with a complex society, whether your own, that of the Maya, or any other, scholars generally adopt one […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 3

By: Chris Ray

Rebuilding the Ruins: Making a Scale Model of the Ancient Maya City of Tikal

On February 1984, Dr. Gregory Possehl (Associate Director of The University Museum) asked me if I could make the Museum […]

Introduction The Neolithic period, spanning the 9th through early 5th millennia B.C., was a time of two fundamental and far-reaching […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 2

By: Walter Fairservis, Jr.

Cattle and the Harappan Chiefdoms of the Indus Valley

The Harappan or Indus Valley culture is one of the world’s earliest civilizations. It was unknown until the early part […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 2

By: Pam Crabtree

Dairying in Irish Prehistory: The Evidence from a Ceremonial Center

Historical sources indicate that cattle have played a primary role in the Irish economy since the days of St. Patrick. […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 2

By: Peter Bogucki

The Antiquity of Dairying in Temperate Europe

The Problem The antiquity of dairying is a problem which has received scant archaeological attention, yet one which is crucial […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 2

By: Charles A. Reed

Wild Animals Ain’t So Wild, Domesticating Them Not So Difficult

Articles on origins of domestication of animals are always written by humans for other humans, usually based in large part […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Adria Holmes Katz

The Gilbert Islands

The Gilbert Islands are sixteen coral atolls in that part of the Pacific known as Micronesia (the region of “small […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Stuart Fleming

The Mummies of Pachacamac: An Exceptional Legacy from Uhle's 1896 Excavations

While, in the wake of Johann Winkelmaun’s appraisal of the Greek contribution to art and of the scholarship stimulated by […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Elizabeth Lyons

Ming Huang’s Journey to Shu: The History of a Painting

During its five-hundred-year history, this painting has been admired, looted, rescued, honored, forgotten, found and restored to esteem. Hanging on […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Richard L. Zettler

From Beneath The Temple: Inscribed Objects From Ur

Perhaps the most widely known of the objects in The University Museum’s Near Eastern collection are those from Tell al-Mugaiyar, […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Donald White

The Morris Coin: A Masterpiece by Euaenetus

“Somewhere in the misty field if the seas / where Ortygia lies by Thrinakria / Apheiis’s bubbling miuth intermingles / […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Bien D. Chiang

Paiwan Qeluz: A Carved Slate Pillar from Taiwan

Standing outside in the Sharpe Circle of The University Museum is a 9- foot slate pillar from the Paiwan peoples […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Adria Holmes Katz

Corselets of Fiber: Robert Louis Stevenson's Gilbertese Armor

In November 1914 and January 1915 the Anderson Auction Company of New York offered for sale a collection of letters, […]

In 1968 an obscure Swiss hotel manager published a book entitled Erinnerungen an die Zukunft. An English edition appeared under […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 2

By: Philip G. Chase

The Cult of the Cave Bear: Prehistoric Rite or Scientific Myth?

Many of the myths that plague archaeologists come from outside the profession, the product of overly imaginative minds untrained in […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 2

By: Bryce Little

The Misusable Past: Facts and Fantasies in North American Archaeology

Two of the most memorable incidents of my career in anthropology concern unusual visitors to my office. The first appeared […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 2

By: Bryce Little

A New North American Fantasy

Archaeological misidentifications and outright frauds have been relatively common within North America during the past 100 years. The story of […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 2

By: Bryce Little

Adventures on the Eastern Frontier

James Adair was born in county Antrim, Ireland, around 1709, and immigrated to South Carolina in 1735. He initially traded […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 2

By: Marilyn P. Beaudry, J. Mark Kenoyer and Rita P. Wright

Traditional Potters of India: Ethnoarchaeological Observations in America

We stood on a hillside surveying the landscape for just the “right spot.” M. Palaniappan preferred the low, more level […]

(The Libyans] schemed to plot rebellion a second time, to finish their lifetime on the frontier of Egypt. They gathered […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 3

By: David Conwell

Ostrich Eggs

The exotic and easily recognized ostrich egg is found surprisingly often by archaeologists working all around the Mediterranean. Evidence for […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 3

By: David O'Connor

Egyptians and Libyans in the New Kingdom: An Interpretation

For Classical authors such as Herodotus (ca. 450 B.C.), all the various independent people inhabiting the huge land mass extending […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 3

By: Lee Horne

Artisans and Archaeologists: A Special Section on the Study of Crafts in India

Observing a skilled artisan at work brings to the viewer an understanding that is bath aesthetic and intellectual, and that […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 3

By: Lee Horne

The Brasscasters of Dariapur, West Bengal: Artisans in a Changing World

In the spring of 1988, Sri Haradhan Karmakar (Figs. 1,2), a brasscaster from West Bengal, came to Philadelphia to participate […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 3

By: Lee Horne

Brasscasting in Dariapur

The following description briefly outlines the stages of dhokra brass-casting as carried out by Dariapuri artisans today. Variations in materials […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 3

By: Rita P. Wright

Traditional Potters of India: Ethnoarchaeological Observations in America

We Stood on a hillside surveying the landscape for just the “right spot”. M. Palaniappan preferred the low, more level […]

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Vol. 29 / No. 3

By: Chandra L. Reedy

Modern Statues and Traditional Methods: A Casting Workshop in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, Northwest India

Northwest India is renowned among art historians for the Buddhist and Hindu copper alloy statues produced there during the medieval […]

The weaving of attractive textiles is one of the freatures that distinguishes the Iabanic peoples of Borneo from neighboring Dayak […]

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Vol. 30 / No. 1

By: Timothy C. Jussup and Andrew P. Vayda

Dayaks and Forests of Interior Borneo

Borneo, largest of the Greater Sunda Islands in the Indonesian archipelago (Fig. 2a,b) and the largest island in the world […]

Located along the western coast of India are a series of caves, some of them richly decorated, that were cut […]

This special issue of Expedition is published in honor of Dr. Alfred Kidder II ( 1911- 1984 ), former Curator […]

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Vol. 31 / No. 1

By: John Monaghan

The Feathered Serpent in Oaxaca: An Approach to the Study of the Mixteca Codices

The Mixteca region of the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Guerrero is the home of one of the largest […]

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Vol. 31 / No. 1

By: Ward H. Goodenough

The Trukese-English Dictionary: Recording a Language on the Computer

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Vol. 31 / No. 2-3

By: David S. Reese

Treasures from the Sea: Shells and Shell Ornaments from Hasanlu IVB

Shell is one of the most durable materials in the archaeological record. Shells and shellfish have been used by man […]

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Vol. 31 / No. 2-3

By: Mary Virginia Harris

Glimpses of an Iron Age Landscape: Plants at Hasanlu

On an August evening in 1970 A.D., standing on the top of Hasanlu Tepe, I could see the headlights of […]

In the ancient Near East, small stamps and cylinders with carved or molded designs were used as emblems of status […]

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Vol. 31 / No. 2-3

By: Tammi J. Schneider

Assyrian Texts: The Inscriptions of Assurnasirpal II and His Son

The existence of written records at a site is viewed with great joy because texts impart information that cannot be […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 1

By: Patrick E. McGovern

The Ultimate Attire: Jewelry from a Canaanite Temple at Beth Shan

Tells el-Husn, ancient Beth Shari, was the first site to be excavated by The University Museum in what is today […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 1

By: Nancy Micklewright

Looking at the Past: Nineteenth Century Images of Constantinople as Historic Documents

Unlace events in more remote periods (the Bronze Age, Classical Antiquity, or even the Renaissance), the events and people of […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 1

By: Ben Burt

Kwara’ae Costume Ornaments: A Solomon Islands Art Form

One of the things that impressed early European visitors to Solomon Islands was the way the people dressed themselves in […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 1

By: Lorraine V. Aragon

Barkcloth Production in Central Sulawesi: A Vanishing Textile Technology in Outer Island Indonesia

Before the invention or adoption of woven textiles, bark-cloth was used to clothe the human body in many, if not […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 1

By: Karen S. Rubinson

The Textiles from Pazyryk: A Study in the Transfer and Transformation of Artisitc Motifs

Winters are cold and summers brief at the site of Pazyryk in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Here, in a […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Steve Ford, Mark Bowden, Vince Gaffney and Geoff Mees

Dating Ancient Field Systems on the Berkshire Downs in England

Undisturbed by modern plowing, the remains of ancient fields are still common on the chalk downlands of southern England. Where […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Kathryn L. Gleason

Gardens and Landscapes of the Past: Introduction

In the past few years, the results of over two decades of research in the new discipline of landscape archaeology […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher

They Have Saturdays and Sundays to Feed Themselves: Slave Gardens in the Caribbean

They have Saturdays in the Afternoon, and Sundays, with Christmas Holidays, Easter call’d little or Piganinny Christmas, and some other […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Kathryn L. Gleason

The Garden Portico of Pompey the Great: An Ancient Public Park Preserved in the Layers of Rome

Rome is thought of as a city for walking. In the coolness of a summer evening, Romans and visitors alike […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Naomi F. Miller

Palm Trees in Paradise: Victorian Views of the Ancient Near East Landscape

The significant origin stories of Western civilization take place in the ancient Near East, a fact that provoked interest in […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Anne Yentsch

Historic Morven: The Archaeological Reappearance of an 18th Century Princeton Garden

The Family, the House, the Gardens Ink the late 17th century the first Stockton family moved to Princeton, and in […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Lynn Grant

Southwest Pottery Artifacts on Tour: A Report from Conservation

Southwest Pottery Artifacts on Tour: A Report from Conservation The University Museum has had an active program of loaning artifacts […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Gail E. Wagner

Charcoal, Isotopes, and Shell Hoes: Reconstructing a 12th Century Native American Garden

Corn-based agriculture was established among the Fort Ancient Indians in the central Ohio River valley by the 11th century A.D. […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: J. Wilson Myers and Eleanor Emlen Myers

Low-Altitude Aerial Photography in Crete

As early as 1930, at the fortress tell of Megiddo, the biblical Armageddon, vertical balloon photographs were used to help […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: Harriet Blitzer

Pastoral Life in the Mountains of Crete: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective

Archaeological research in Crete has always maintained a tenuous and sometimes contrary bond with evidence of traditional human activity in […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: Barbara J. Hayden and Jennifer A. Moody

The Vrokastro Survey Project: Providing a Context for an Early Iron Age Site

Of the most dramatic coastlines in Europe is located along the northern shores of eastern Crete, where sea-weathered rock formations, […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: Barbara J. Hayden, Jennifer A. Moody and Polymnia Muhly

Introduction – Winter 1990

Generations of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and scientists have chosen Crete as the focus of their research. A combination of factors […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: Joseph W. Shaw

North American Archaeological Work in Crete, 1880 to 1990

The First Phase of Research The island of Crete with its rich Minoan and Classical civilization has been the field […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: Philip P. Betancourt

The Stone Vessels of Pseira

“Never…have I seen so many stone vases in so short a time.” Richard Seager, letter to Edith Hall from Pseira, […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: Polymnia Muhly

The Great Goddess and the Priest-King: Minoan Religion in Flux

The discussion of practically every aspect of Minoan civilization begins with the work of Sir Arthur Evans, who, almost half […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 3

By: Geraldine C. Gesell, Leslie Preston Day and William D.E. Coulson

Tombs and Burial Practices in Early Iron Age Crete

Tombs and graves have always been of particular interest to archaeologists for the information they provide about the people buried […]

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Vol. 33 / No. 1

By: Lewis R. Binford

A Corporate Caribou Hunt: Documenting the Archaeology of Past Lifeways

Over 4,500 terracotta figurines spanning some 800 years, from the 7th century B.C. to the 1st century of the Christian […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 1-2

By: Donald White

Statue Breakers and Spirit Exorcists: The Earthquake Destruction and Its Aftereffects

The Sanctuary’s later days are marred by acts of violence that form a disturbing contrast with its apparently tranquil preceding […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 1-2

By: Janet Monge

Victims of the Quake

An almost complete absence of human remains trapped in the destruction level of the Sanctuary argues that effectively nothing in […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 3

By: Randall White

The Earliest Images: Ice Age 'Art' in Europe

The term “Ice Age art” usually evokes images of painted caves. However, by the time the first cave was painted […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 3

By: Philip G. Chase

Introduction – Winter 1992

Ice Age archaeology has a special fascination, for it was during this time that our ancestors became fully human, both […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 3

By: Philip G. Chase

What Were the Ice Ages?

Humans, or at least the first members of our biological family, first arrived in Europe at least 500,000 years ago. […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 3

By: Harold L. Dibble

Paleolithic Archaeology: The Search for our Human Heritage

The Paleolithic, or “Old Stone Age,” is a fascinating period of prehistory for anyone interested in human origins and evolution. […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 3

By: Philip G. Chase

Language in the Ice Ages: When Did Europeans First Speak?

Using language is part of being human, and of all living species, we alone possess this ability. It is crucial […]

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Vol. 34 / No. 3

By: Nancy Minugh-Purvis

The Inhabitants of Ice Age Europe

Early European Origins The first inhabitants of Europe were not native to the region. Some 5 to 6 million years […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Christian E. Downum

Southwestern Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future

When the U.S. ended its war with Mexico, it gained a vast new western territory that included most of the […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Eric Blinman

Anasazi Pottery: Evolution of a Technology

Pottery is ubiquitous on Anasazi archaeological sites (Figs. 1 and 2), and it is both one of the aesthetic joys […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Glen Rice and Charles Redman

Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert: An Experiment in Organizational Complexity

In the fall of 1989 we began an eight-year project to investigate platform mound communities in the Tonto Basin of […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Catherine M. Cameron

Photographic Analysis: A Study of Architectural Change at Oraibi Pueblo

The multistoried pueblos of the Southwest appear ancient, time-less, and unchanging. Most of these villages have been occupied for over […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Paul Minnis and Michael Whalen

Casas Grandes: Archaeology in Northern Mexico

“the great difficulty being in determining where the remains of these people [of Cases Grander] ceased, and those of ruder […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Stephen H. Lekson

Chaco, Hohokam and Mimbres: The Southwest in the 11th and 12th Centuries

Caesar’s Gaul, the Southwest of the 11th and 12th centuries was divided into three parts (Fig. 2): Anasazi (on the […]

Ancient Nubia was clearly perceived by its contemporaries as an independent country, rich in coveted resources and inhabited by dark […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Barbara H. Roll

Pere Village

Pere is the home of the largest and most powerful clan on the south coast of Manus. In 1928 it […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Kris L. Hardin

Representing Africa: Whose Story Counts?

Photographs have long been an important tool of cultural anthropologists. A quick survey of the anthropological literature shows visual images being […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Eleanor M. King

Fieldwork in Brazil: Petrullo's Visit to the Yawalapiti

Preface Matto Grosso was tirst entered, by way of the Paraguay river, in the latter part of the sixteenth century […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Vincenzo Petrullo

‘Among Friends’: Excerpt from Uni, an Unpublished Manuscript

As the narrative begins, we find Petrullo and his companion, Arthur Rossi, encamped on. the bank of the Kuluene River. […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Lee Horne

Return to Caracol: Behind the Scenes

In September of 1951. The University Museum received a 20ton shipment of limestone monuments. most of them in fragments, from […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Loa P. Traxler

A New Discovery at Copan: Reports from the Field

In the spring of 1992, University Museum excavators of the ancient Maya city of Copan made the remarkable discovery of […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Lee Horne

Focus on Fieldwork: Introduction

This issue of Expedition focuses on five very different kinds of fieldwork projects. All are connected in one way or another […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 3

By: Barbara H. Roll

Loving a Village

In 1928 the newly married young anthropologists Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune lived for six months in a village called […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 1

By: Duffie Westheimer

The Annual MNA Indian Art Exhibitions

In 1984 I was sorting piles of Navajo rugs for the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Navajo Artists Exhibition. I think […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 1

By: Tessie Naranjo

Pottery Making in a Changing World: Santa Clara Pueblo

About 10 miles from my home in Santa Clara Pueblo, is Puce, the home of my ancestors. Puce sits on […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 1

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

Musings and Visions from the Director’s Desk – Spring 1994

It is a great privilege and honor for me to be the eleventh Director and the second Charles K. Williams […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 1

By: Lee Horne

Introduction – Spring 1994

This special Expedition on Native Fairs and Markets of the Southwest takes issues of tradition and innovation, preservation and change, […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 1

By: Lea S. McChesney

Producing ‘Generations in Clay’: Kinship, Markets, and Hopi Pottery

In November 1992, “His” or Camille Nampeyo, a 28-year-old great-great-granddaughter of the famous potter Nampeyo, was profiled as one of […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 1

By: Bruce Bernstein

Pueblo Potters, Museum Curators, and Santa Fe’s Indian Market

In 1992 Lonnie Vigil, a potter from the Tewa pueblo of Nambe in New Mexico, almost won Best of Show […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 1

By: Linda B. Eaton

The Hopi Craftsman Exhibition: The Creation of Authenticity

The relationship of the public with American Indians has always been uneasy, and museums are often brokers in the complex […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 2-3

By: Aleksey A. Malyshev and Michail J. Treister

A Warrior’s Burial from the Asiatic Bosporous in the Augustan Age

In antiquity, a significant part of the northern Black Sea coast belonged to the Bosporan state, with its capital in […]

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Vol. 36 / No. 2-3

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

Musings and Visions from the Director’s Desk – Summer/Winter 1994

While media images of archaeologists come and go, from the pith-helmeted, absent-minded professor poring over piles of potsherds to the […]

Grandmother Moon Tonight is the Lunar eclipse Tonight the moon blooms Tonight my grandma is home. The cornfield carpets the […]

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Vol. 37 / No. 2

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

Musings and Visions from the Director’s Desk – Summer 1995

The University of Pennsylvania Museum recently presented a small but very important temporary exhibit entitled “Illuminating the Past: The Art […]

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Vol. 37 / No. 2

By: Hattula Moholy-Nagy

Shells and Society at Tikal, Guatemala

Thousands of unworked mariner shells, shell artifacts, and fragments of production waste, or debitage, were recovered from the University of […]

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Vol. 37 / No. 2

By: Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas

Household Craft Specialization and Shell Ornament Manufacture in Ejutla, Mexico

INTRODUCTION It has been more than 60 years since Alfonso Caso (1932) discovered the spectacular Tomb 7 at the hilltop […]

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Vol. 37 / No. 2

By: Timothy Matney

Re-excavating Cheshmeh Ali: Reviews and Reports

Fainted ceramic traditions were widespread across southwestern Asia in the Early Chalcolithic period (roughly 5500 to 5000 B.C.), distributed from […]

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Vol. 37 / No. 2

By: Steven E. Sidebotham

Routes Through the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Not since the Ptolemaic-Roman-Byzantine era (late 4th century B.C. to 7th century A.D.) have the Eastern Desert and Red Sea coast of Egypt […]

Often, when we consider that something has ritual importance, we imagine it as exotic, strange, and, possibly, wondrously beautiful. We […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 1

By: Stephen M. Epstein

Musings and Visions from the Museum – Spring 1996

Perhaps the most self-evident aspect of the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s mission is stewardship of the artifacts in our care. […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 1

By: Jeremiah Dandoy

Astragali, the Ubiquitous Gaming Pieces: Reviews and Reports

The astragalus, or talus, is a uniquely shaped, compact bone (Fig. 2) found in virtually every mammal including humans. It […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 1

By: Peter Peregrine

Geomagnetic Mapping at Tell es-Sweyhat

The premise of the archaeological use of geomagnetic is that archaeological deposits can be recognized as disruptions of the otherwise […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 1

By: Naomi F. Miller and Jill Anne Weber

Botanical and Faunal Remains from Tell es-Sweyhat

Botanical Remains Charred plant remains from ancient sites open a window onto many aspects of ancient Landscape and economy. In […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: Stuart J. Fleming

Early Imperial Roman Glass at the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Five years ago, when the ideas underlying the forthcoming exhibition Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change were still in embryo, […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: John Scarborough

Drugs and Medicines in the Roman World

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Vol. 38 / No. 3

By: Dorothy K. Washburn

Social Messages and Cultural Information in the Clothing of Southern Lao Women

Archaeologists typically classify the objects they excavate into “types,” that is, groupings of artifacts that appear similar, generally from the […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 3

By: William H. Davenport

Wogosia: An Annual Renewal Rite in the Eastern Solomon Islands

Each year on the small island of Santa Catalina (locally called Aorilei) in the eastern Solomon Islands, a religious ceremony […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 3

By: Michael W. Meister

Temples Along the Indus

High above the mighty Indus, on hills commonly called the Salt Range, stand important remains of forts with citadels and […]

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Vol. 38 / No. 3

By: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway

Is the Hope Head an Italian Goddess?: A Case of Circumstantial Evidence

“Never forget that the most valuable acquisition a man of refined taste can make is a piece of fine Greek sculpture.” This […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 1

By: Helen Schenck

From the Editor – Spring 1997

Once hundred years ago, the University of Pennsylvania Museum put out its first periodical, entitled The Bulletin of the Free […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 1

By: Patrick E. McGovern, Ulrich Hartung, Virginia R. Badler, Donald L. Glusker and Lawrence J. Exner

The Beginnings of Winemaking and Viniculture in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

The origins of winemaking and viniculture are shrouded in the mists of human prehistory. Scenarios of how wine might have […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 1

By: Paul Yule

The Copper Hoards of Northern India

In 1870, while tending cattle, two young boys in the village of Ghangaria in central India noticed a long metal […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 1

By: David R. Starbuck

Military Hospitals on the Frontier of Colonial America

Health care in 18th-century America was radically different from today, and one of the greatest contrasts is in the role played […]

The Roman glassmaking industry took root in the late 1st century BC and became established through the 2nd century AD. […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 2

By: John Scarborough

The Life and Times of Alexander of Tralles

Among early Byzantine physicians, Alexander of Tralles (AD 525-605) attracts the admiration not only of medical historians, but also of […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 2

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

Musings and Visions from the Director’s Desk – Summer 1997

As I write this column, the President’s Summit on America’s Future is about to take place in Philadelphia. This Summit […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 2

By: Helen Schenck

Introduction – Summer 1997

This is the second issue of Expedition Magazine to focus on Roman topics in the space of a year. Like […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 3

By: Donald White

Of Coffins, Curses, and Other Plumbeous Matters: The Museum's Lead Burial Casket from Tyre

Many have taken voluminous pains to determine the state of the soul upon disunion; but men have been most phantastical […]

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Vol. 39 / No. 3

By: Peggy Reeves Sanday

Eggi’s Village: Reconsidering the Meaning of Matriarchy

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Vol. 40 / No. 1

By: Judith Berman

Building a Collection: Native Californian Basketry at the University of Pennsylvania Museum

One afternoon in April of 1905, a Pennsylvania Dutch mill owner named Henry K. Deisher stopped by the University Museum […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 1

By: Sherrie Smith-Ferri

The Development of the Commercial Market for Pomo Indian Baskets

“CANASTROMANIA” Term for “basket fever” coined by Smithsonian curator Otis Mason, from the Latin word canistra, meaning basket (1904:187) Attracted […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 1

By: Sally McLendon

Pomo Basket Weavers in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Collections

The Deisher collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum is the best-documented single collection of California Indian baskets from the […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Lee Horne

Ur and Its Treasures: The Royal Tombs

Alder Sumer lay in lower Mesopotamia, an arid land broken by belts of green along the banks of its canals […]

PHOTO 1. The “Ram” as it was before the new work began in May 1997. As conservators and curators discovered, […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

Musings and Visions from the Director’s Desk – Summer 1998

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s collection of materials from the excavations in the Royal Cemetery at […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Helen Schenck

Introduction – Summer 1998

Few sites possess the lure and mystique of the ancient Near Eastern mound of Ur, with its imposing ziggurat and […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 3

By: Steve Ferzacca

Frederica de Laguna and Her Reunion Under Mount Saint Elias

Anthropologist Frederica de Laguna (“Freddy”) began her anthropological career almost seventy years ago (Fig. 1). In 1930 she led an […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 3

By: Pia Guldager Bilde

‘Those Nemi Sculptures…’: Marbles from a Roman Sanctuary in the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Frothingham’s arrival will be fatal to us. If this American remains in Rome, he will surely get hold of it […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 3

By: David R. Starbuck

New Perspectives on Shaker Life: An Archaeologist Discovers 'Hog Heaven' at Canterbury Shaker Village

I had concluded a conversation. But informal conversations could often be very revealing about the behavior that was (or was not) […]

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Vol. 40 / No. 3

By: Marilyn Norcini

From the New Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions

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Vol. 41 / No. 1

By: Douglas M. Haller

Architectural Archaeology: A Centennial View of the Museum Buildings

While many are familiar with the University of Pennsylvania Museum as an archaeological treasure house, few know about its role in Philadelphia culture, the […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 1

By: William H. Davenport

Vengeful Spirits and Guardian Dieties: Myth and Sculpture in the Eastern Solomon Islands

Traditional sculpture in the Eastern Solomon Islands draws heavily upon mythology for its imagery. One can even say that the […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 1

By: Dietrich Berges

Hidden Treasures from the Vault: Engraved Gems from the Maxwell Sommerville Collection

Jewel and precious stones are normally kept in the Museum vault or behind bullet-proof glass. It is unusual, however, for […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 2

By: Lynn Grant

Conservation at Copan

One of my favorite parts of archaeological conservation is being a field conservator and working with the archaeologists on site […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 2

By: Jennifer Houser Wegner

Lost and Found Fragments of Egyptian Wisdom: Lost and Found Fragments of Egyptian Wisdom

One of the oldest types of ancient Egyptian literature is that known as “instructions” or “wisdom literature”. “Instructions” appeared in […]

AD 1519, central Panama: the conquistadors were angry. They had promised the Spanish court a mass of gold in return […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 2

By: Eleanor Coates

Featured Finds from Copan: A Portfolio of Photographs

Eleanor (Bunny) Coates is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 2

By: Alex Pezzati and Jennifer Quick

The Flowering of the Museum Gardens: From the Archives

The University of Pennsylvania Museum sits on a plot of land that had been reserved by the City of Philadelphia […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 2

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director

The Early Copan Acropolis Program (ECAP) of the University of Pennsylvania Museum has been an extraordinarily successful research endeavor. Under […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Janet Monge and Alan Mann

A New View of a Neandertal Fossil Bone Collection: Science & Archaeology

The Neandertals are among the most enigmatic of our earlier relatives. With their large browridges, low foreheads, and projecting faces […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Donald White

Renovating the Etruscan and Roman Galleries

What with a total replacement of its fire safety and security system and the imminent addition of the new Mainwaring […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Alex Pezzati

Sitio Conte Excavations Come to Life on the Web: From the Archives

J. Alden Mason wrote this unabashed paean to the American Section’s Linton Satterthwaite when he was excavating at Sitio Conte, […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Michael C. Howard and Naffi Sanggenafa

Terfo: Survival of a Weaving Tradition in New Guinea

Traditional dress in Irian Jaya, in the Pacific archipelago nation of Indonesia, is usually associated with penis gourds, string bags, […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Lucy Fowler Williams and Robert Preucel

The Here and Now of Pueblo Pottery: What in the World

How are contemporary Pueblo people interpreting their rich cultural heritage and how is this affecting their traditional arts? These, and related […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Richard Veit

Mastodons, Mound Builders, and Montroville Wilson Dickeson–Pioneering American Archaeologist

The history of archaeology is populated by a varied cast of scholars. showmen, adventurers. and charlatans. This article examines the […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Dan Penny

Pollen Grains in Sands of Time

Over the past 30 years or so, a genteel battle has raged over the prehistory of northeast Thailand. Despite a […]

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Vol. 41 / No. 3

By: Fredrik T. Hiebert

On the Track of the Ancient Silk Road

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Naomi F. Miller

Plants in the Service of Archaeological Preservation

Several years ago Dr. Ilhan Temizsoy, director of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, expressed concern about erosion on the Midas […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Robert W. Preucel

Living on the Mesa: Hanat Kotyiti, A Post-Revolt Cochiti Community in Northern New Mexico

On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo Indians of the Spanish province of New Mexico, along with their Navajo and Apache allies, […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Michael W. Meister, Abdur Rehman and Farid Khan

Discovery of a New Temple on the Indus

Along the Indus River and on the plateau and escarpments of the Salt Range in upper Pakistan, a sequence of […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Keith DeVries

Gordion

The year 2000 marks both a month and a 50th anniversary for Gordion. In 1900 the German Koerte brothers conducted […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director

The University of Pennsylvania Museum’s archaeological research at the site of Gordion in central Turkey was launched fifty years ago […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Alex Pezzati

Thomas C. Donaldson and the 1890 U.S. Census: From the Archives

The University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives houses thousands of 19th centry photographs documenting people and places all over the world. […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Henry N. Michael

Tree Rings and Radiocarbon Dates: Science & Archaeology

The advent of radiocarbon dating enabled scientists to put ancient organic remains into a far more reliable chronological framework than […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Alex Pezzati

A Crowning Achievement: Zelia Nuttall in Czarist Russia: From the Archives

Why was Zelia Nuttall, a well-known Aztec scholar, engaged to travel to Russia as a representative of the University of […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Josef Wegner

A Hundred Years at South Abydos: Reconstructing the Temple of Pharaoh Senwosret III

Discovery and Rediscovery of a Royal Mortuary Temple Late in 1899 a young British archaeologist, David Randall-Maclver, was exploring the […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Jennifer L. White

A Masterpiece in Clay: A Han House Model Reflects Traditional Chinese Life

For over twenty years a clay model of a three-story structure has stood with little notice among green-glazed ceramic tombwares […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Leigh-Ann Bedal

Paradise Found: Petra's Urban Oasis

The ruins of the ancient city of Petra Crock” in Greek) lie in the mountains that form the eastern border […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Paul Zimmerman

The City of Petra

Petra, one of the great cities of antiquity, Is nestled in the rugged Shan’ mountains of southern Jordan, halfway between the […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Paul Zimmerman

Mapping Petra

In 1993 Martha Joukowsky opened a new excavation at the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southwest Jordan (see box […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Jing Sun

Opening Windows on the Outside World: My Experiences as an International Classroom Speaker

I came to the United States in February 1998 as a visiting scholar to do research on teaching English to minority […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director

This issue of Expedition highlights one of the most renowned strengths of the University of Pennsylvania Museum: our archaeological and […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: Irene Bald Romano

What Is This Statue Doing Up In the Air?: What in the World

The marble statue of a seated Dionysos with a Lion (MS 5483) has been a familiar landmark in the center […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 2

By: James R. Mathieu

A Tree Falls in Philadelphia: Research Notes

The plunging of a silver shovel into the dirt on April 14, 2000, marked the official groundbreaking for the construction […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 3

By: Pika Ghosh

Kalighat Paintings from Nineteenth Century Calcutta in Maxwell Sommerville’s ‘Ethnological East Indian Collection’

Kalighat paintings, as the name suggests, were created in the Kali Temple area on the ghat (bank) of the Burin […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 3

By: Ellen E. Bell, Robert J. Sharer, David W. Sedat, Marcello A. Canuto and Lynn Grant

The Margarita Tomb at Copan, Honduras: A Research Update

In an earlier issue of Expedition (41[2]), we reported on the first five years of work in an Early Classic […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 3

By: Rebecca Huss-Ashmore

‘The Real Me’: Therapeutic Narrative in Cosmetic Surgery

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Vol. 42 / No. 3

By: Lucy Fowler Williams and Melissa Wagner

American Collections Inspire Native Artists and Indian Communities

The American Section of University of Pennsylvania Museum has developed a rewarding relationship with the National Museum of the American […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 1

By: Alex de Voogt

Mancala: Games That Count

Passengers waiting patiently for their luggage in the Toronto airport frowned perplexedly at my dealings with a man from Uganda. […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 1

By: Clark L. Erickson

Precolumbian Fish Farming in the Amazon: Research Notes

Popular images associated with the Amazon today include the towering continuous green forest canopy, Day-Glo poison dart frogs, and native […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 1

By: Fredrik T. Hiebert

Eurasian Archaeology

This issue of Expedition highlights recent research in three distinctly different environments of Eurasia: the Black Sea coastal region, the […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 1

By: Fredrik T. Hiebert

Black Sea Coastal Cultures: Trade and Interaction

Trade and Maritime Space The study of ancient trade has greatly enhanced our understanding of the development of civilizations. In […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 1

By: Natalia Shishlina

Early Herders of the Eurasian Steppe

In the broad treeless steppe of Kalmykia, situated almost directly between the Black and Caspian seas, stands a huge burial mound […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 1

By: Alexander Emel'yanov

Forest Hunters of Eurasia

The forest zone of central Eurasia is a territory of continental climates (cold winters and warm summers), with dense temperate […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 1

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Elizabeth Hamilton

Bronze from Ban Chiang, Thailand: A View from the Laboratory: Science & Archaeology

An American college student’s famous stumble over a tree root that led to the discovery of the Bronze Age culture […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Andrew L. Goldman

A Roman Town Cemetery at Gordion, Turkey

King Midas. The Phrygians. Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot. These are among the many subjects ordinarily associated with the site […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Adria H. Katz

Decorated Canoe Prow-boards from the Trobriand Islands

The University Museum recently came into possession of three canoe prow-boards (Fig. I) collected in the Trobriand Islands in 1983 […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski, Shannon P. McPherron, Harold L. Dibble and Marie Soressi

Middle Egypt in Prehistory: A Search for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior and Human Dispersal

The word Egypt for many people evokes images of one of the great civilizations of the ancient world and represents […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Victor H. Mair

The Case of the Wayward Oracle Bone

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Vol. 43 / No. 3

By: John H. Walker

Work Parties and Raised Field Groups in the Bolivian Amazon

The Amazon River moves more water and sediment than any other river in the world, and at the mouth of […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 3

By: Ayşe Gursan-Salzmann

The Women of Yassihöyük, Turkey: Changing Roles in a New Economy

It is widely acknowledged that women are the mainstay of household operations. especially in rural agricultural communities, and their contributions […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 3

By: Leslie Guy

Moving the Museum’s Ethnographic Collections: A Conservation Approach

Beginning in January 2002 the Museum will be relocating almost 100,000 ethnographic artifacts from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 3

By: Michael Danti

Palmyrene Funerary Sculptures at Penn

Today, the ancient city of Palmyra, the caravan center and oasis of the Syrian Desert (Fig. I), evokes romantic images […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 3

By: Elin C. Danien

Chicken Soup and Canvas Bags: Advice for the Field

Today when the Internet is almost ubiquitous and air travel is as common as a walk down the lane, it’s […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 1

By: Suzanne Sheehan Becker

From the Director for Development

Every day at the University of Pennsylvania Museum you learn some thing new, something that expands your awareness and challenges your […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 1

By: Shannon C. White

An Alabaster Mystery: What in the World?

Did it once hold cosmetics for a Parthian beauty? Or perhaps weight her loom? Or maybe it was a sacred […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 1

By: Alex Pezzati

Murder in Mesopotamia: From the Archives

The Setting is an Archaeological expedition to Ur, in Iraq, during the 1930s. The beautiful, intriguing, and temperamental wife of […]

I am delighted to announce that Dr. Beebe Bahrami is the new editor of Expedition. She is the latest in a distinguished […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Sharon Aponte Misdea

Museum Mosaic – Summer 2002: : People, Places, Projects

Worlds Intertwined: The Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans will open to the public in Spring 2003. The $3 million project completes the reinstallation of […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Alex Pezzati

From the Archives: The Big One That Got Away: Heye-day Ends With Loss of Prized American Indian Collection

In the early 20th century, the University of Pennsylvania Museum competed with other museums in the United States and Europe for collections of primitive and ancient […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Sharon Nagy and Nabil Abu-Dayyeh

Village Air for Urban Elites: Heritage Cafe Complexes in Jordan

Memorializing everyday life is a common practice that spans cultures and countries. We easily recognize this in theme parks, living-history museums, […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Theodore G. Schurr

Book News & Reviews: 500,000 Years in Siberia: Digs Link a Long History of Migrations to Cultural Diversity: The Paleolithic of Siberia: New Discoveries and Interpretations

New archaeological evidence concerning how people lived in Siberia during the Paleolithic period is the subject of this ambitious book. Along with patterns of […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Harold Dibble

Learning More About Neandertals: A Newly Discovered Tool Piques Curiosity: What in the World

From about 250,000 to 35,000 years ago, during the Middle Paleolithic, or Mousterian, period, Neandertals lived in Western Europe. Although we occasionally find bits […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Charles A. Evers and Ann Blair Brownlee

Restoration & Renewal: Museum Readies Mediterranean Section Galleries for the 21st Century

There is a new sense of excitement in the Museum’s Mediterranean Galleries, which are devoted to the cultures of ancient Greece […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Beebe Bahrami

An Enduring Legacy: Robert L. Trescher Crafted the Modern Museum: Portrait

Robert L. Trescher, Esq., opened many doors for individuals and institutions through-out his life. So it is entirely appropriate that his name is honored at […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Melvyn Hammarberg

Research Notes: The Olympic Face of the LDS Church: A Warm Welcome Belies the Low Profile of the 'LDS Olympics'

As part of my research on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, my wife and I flew to Salt Lake City the day […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Matt Glendinning

Recovering the Lost Art of Phrygian Roof Tiling: Practical and Aesthetic Elements Converge in Clay, Reflecting Greek Artistic Temperament

An impressive sight must have greeted a visitor entering the fortified citadel of Gordion in the early sixth century B. C. After suffering devastating destruction by […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Michael D. Danti

The View from the Tell: Nafila Villagers Make Room for an Expedition: Field Experience

Try as we might to avoid the romantic image of archaeologists roughing it in the field, that ’s precisely what we do each dig […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 2

By: Sharon Aponte Misdea

A Visual History of Archaeology at Tikal

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Vol. 44 / No. 3

By: Naomi F. Miller

Food, Fodder, or Fuel?: Harvesting the Secrets of Ancient Seeds: Science & Archaeology

When I was in Southern Iran in the 1970s, I collected charred woods and seed plant remains from the ancient city of Anshan, […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 3

By: William Hafford

The Taste of a Dig: Cooking up Successful Fieldwork: Field Experience

Many things are necessary for an archaeological project to succeed, but a cook is particularly critical. If you combine hard […]

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Vol. 44 / No. 3

By: Tammi J. Schneider

Through Assyria’s Eyes: Israel's Relationship with Judah

The Hebrew Bible records the history of ancient Israel and Judah, relating that the two kingdoms were united under Saul (ca. 1000 […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 2

By: Gillian Wakely

Serene Spaces: A Letter from the Associate Director for Programs

A Letter from the Associate Director for Programs first arrived in the University of Pennsylvania Museum over 30 years ago. […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Elizabeth Hamilton

The Celts and Urbanization: The Enduring Puzzle of the Oppida

Archaeologists have speculated for decades about the role of Celtic settlements called oppida, because they fit only loosely into the […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director – Spring 2003

The readership of Expedition is quite varied, comprising residents of all parts of the United States and the world. While […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Elizabeth Hamilton

From the Issue Editor

The first written mention of the Celts comes from Herodotus, who in the fifth century B.C. wrote that the Danube […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Bernard Wailes

Defining (Kel’tik): The Case of the Insular Celts

In decades past, archaeologists in search of clues to the ori¬gin of ethnic groups like the Celts tended to equate […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Alex Pezzati

The Inventor and the Sultan: Bright Idea Opens the Way for Excavations in Ancient Nippur: From the Archives

The Museum was in its infancy in 1888 when Rev. Dr. John Punnett Peters was in Constantinople (now Istanbul), then […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Elizabeth Hamilton

A Celtic Helmet?: Headgear from a Bronze Age Hoard: What in the World?

This sheet bronze helmet, which dates to around 1000 B . C ., was one of a hoard of nine similar helmets found in 1832 in Bernières d’Ailly, Normandy, […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Melissa Murphy

From Bare Bones to Mummified: Insights from an Inca Cemetery: Research Notes

Archaeologists moved quickly with the astonishing discovery of an Inca cemetery underneath the village of Tupac Amaru, located six miles outside of Lima, […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Beebe Bahrami

The Modern Celts of Northern Spain

When I Boarded the bus in Ferrol, Galicia, I asked the driver in Spanish, “Is this the bus to Cedeira?” […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Bettina Arnold

Landscapes of Ancestors: Early Iron Age Hillforts and Their Mound Cemeteries

The Celtic-Speaking early Iron Age peoples who lived in Southwest Germany, eastern France, and Switzerland north of the Alps did […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Mary M. Voigt

Celts at Gordion: The Late Hellenistic Settlement

In 278 B.C., a group of Celtic immigrants crossed from the Balkans into Anatolia, or present-day Turkey. The long journey […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 1

By: Whitney Azoy

Masood’s Parade: Iconography, Revitilization, and Ethnicity in Afghanistan

What happens when, after two dozen years of chaos, a society begins to get its political act together? What values […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 2

By: Pamela L. Geller

Read My Lips…Ears, Nose, Head, and Teeth: Interpreting Permanent Bodily Ornaments: Research Notes

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Vol. 45 / No. 2

By: Michael Hernandez and David Sutton

Hands that Remember: An Ethnographic Approach to Everyday Cooking

“With her sight now gone completely, Yiayia mourns the days when the kitchen was hers. She cries as she recounts […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 2

By: Melford F. Smith

Afield in Abydos: Paleolithic Fieldwork Takes Shape: Field Experience

In the winter of 2002, I had the opportunity to journey with Dr. Harold Dibble, Dr. Deborah Olszewski, and Dr. […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 2

By: Payson Sheets

Uncommonly Good Food Among Commoners: Growing and Consuming Food in Ancient Ceren

Much of northern Central America was devastated by a cataclysmic volcanic eruption, probably during the fourth century A.D. What had […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 2

By: Jennifer Shadel Smith

By Land and by Sea: A Project Awash in Media Attention: A Project Awash in Media Attention

During the summer of 2000, in Sinop, Turkey, a hot noontime sun beat down on a small field crew consisting […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 2

By: Beth D'Addono, Irene Good and Walda Metcalf

Feast for the Eyes: Ancient Music, Women Warriors, and Evolutionary Recipes: Book News & Reviews

Here is a question: If you were going to organize a three-hour dinner party according to the tempo of human […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Brian Peasnall and Mitchell S. Rothman

One of Iraq’s Earliest Towns: Excavating Tepe Gawra in the Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum

When does excavation not require the diggers to get dirty? Such a riddle may belie most people’s image of archaeology.In […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Christine Ward

The Bluff Great House: On the Periphery of the Chaco World

Towering red sandstone cliffs provide a dramatic backdrop to archaeological research at the Bluff Great House in southeastern Utah. The […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Karim M. Tiro

Film & Culture: Northern Exposure: The Fast Runner Offers a Native Perspective

In 1922, director Robert Flaherty produced the first documentary film, a movie called Nanook of the North. It was so […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Judy C. Voelker, Dana Walrath and Birch Miles

Asian Culinary Magic, Visual Journeys, and Afghan Buzkashi: From Bangkok to Buzkashi: Book News & Reviews

For those who enjoy the delicate combinations of herbs and spices that are hallmarks of Asian cuisine or for those […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: William Wierzbowski

Matches’s Sketchbook: Native American P.O.W. Art from Fort Marion

In 1891, a small sketchbook with thirty-one drawings entered the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Robert W. Preucel, Lucy Fowler Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub and Janet Monge

Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment: NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

On September 29,2000, John Johnson of the Chugach Alaska Corporation arrived in Philadelphia to take formal possession of ancestral Eskimo […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: James R. Mathieu

Time Travel, Trebuchets, and Atlatls: Playing with the Past Through Experimental Archaeology: Science and Archaeology

Recently I had a chance to read Michael Crichon’s Timeline, a book recommended to me because it combined my interests […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Alex Pezzati

Held in the Archives: Famous Jazz Age Artist’s Watercolors in UPM’s Archives: From the Archives

The old cliché that museums and archives are full of undiscovered treasures is true. Though one works constantly to identify and catalog […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 1

By: Dori Panzer

Eddie Lenihan: A Storyteller in Modern Ireland: Research Notes

Over a year ago, Eddie Lenihan was telling me about collecting stories on the fairy faith. He said, “Of all […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Richard Zettler: Associate Curator-In-Charge, Near East Section: Meet the Curators

Ancient Mesopotamia is Richard Zettler’s research passions. As Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Near East Section, and Associate Professor of Anthropologic, […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 1

By: Edith Turner

Shamanism and Spirit

The word “Shaman” derives from saman, taken from the Tungus of Siberia where it means “spirit healer.” Shamanism, or working […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 1

By: Kenneth Lymer

Shimmering Visions: Shamanistic Rock Art Images from the Republic of Kazakhstan

Between 1998-2000 I visited several important rock art sites within the Republic of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is one of several countries […]

The Penn Museum’s nationally traveling exhibit returns home for a limited time this spring and summer, before traveling to additional […]

Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind, by Peter Corning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). 464 pp., […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: William B. Hafford

Glittering Gold: What in the World

Gold. Through the ages, it has adorned kings and queens and made princes of the common, inspiring greatness and greed […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Meet the New Director: Richard M. Leventhal, the Williams Director

On JULY 1, 2004, a new era at the Penn Museum began when Richard M. Leventhal, noted Mesoamerican scholar, officinally assumed […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: Brenda J. Bowser

The Amazonian House: A Place of Women's Politics, Pottery, and Prestige

Dusk was falling in the Amazonian house. Two men sat silently. The host was dressed for war, his face painted […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: Phoebe Resnick

Reminiscences: An Appreciation of Mary Virginia Harris: Portrait

Mary Virginia Harris, a devoted volunteer and supporter of the Penn Museum for more than 40 years, died on Monday, […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: Rosemary A. Joyce

Unprecedented Projects: The Birth of Mesoamerican Pyramids

In 1519, The first Europeans to visit Tenochtitlan saw a massive pyramid supporting twin temples looming over the capital city […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: Alexandra Mack

The Multiple Landscapes of Vijayanagara: From the Mythic and the Ritual to the Kingly and the Common

Vijayangara, The Capital of an empire that flourished in southern India from the 14th to the 16th centuries AD, has been […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: James R. Mathieu

From the Editor – Winter 2004

The original impetus behind this special issue on Cultural Anthropology came from my predecessor as editor, Beebe Bahrami. As a […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Gulbun O'Connor

William Davenport, Curator Emeritus, Oceanian Section: Portrait

William Davenport Died on March 12, 2004, in Philadelphia. He was a great teacher and friend, and after all these […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Robert W. Preucel, Associate Curator, American Section: Meet the Curators

One of the many hats Robert W. Preucel wears as the Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Associate Curator of North America is […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Paula L.W. Sabloff

The Value of ‘Culture’: An Example from Mongolia

Cultural Anthropology doesn’t get much respect from the public these days. Archaeology, on the other hand, remains beloved because it […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Alma Gottlieb

Babies as Ancestors, Babies as Spirits: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa

Old Souls One Day I was sitting in the shaded compound of a Beng village in the West African rain […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Carolyn Behrman

‘The Culture of Reading’ in a Public School: Ethnography, Service-Learning, and Undergraduate Researchers

Scores from a 2002 standardized Reading Proficiency Test for fourth graders surprised the principal of Wensleydale Elementary School (pseudonym). Her […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Sarah Strauss

Re-Orienting Yoga

The train pulled out of the station. I was riding in the famed Rajdhani Express, on the way back from […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: William Davenport

Henri Rey: The Inventor from Tahiti

Imet Henri Rey in Tahiti in 1965. He was living in semi-retirement in the district of Pirae, about three kilometers […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Donald White

What Is a Water Trough Where a Horse Can’t Even Get a Drink?: An Abandonded Roman Sarcophagus By the Wissahickon

Now the Wissahiccon is of so remarkable a loveliness that, were it flowing in England, it would be theme of […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: Brenda J. Bowser

The Amazonian House: A Place of Women's Politics, Pottery, and Prestige

Dusk was falling in the Amazonian house. Two men sat silently. The host was dressed for war, his face painted […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 1

By: Ann Blair Brownlee

What Was There Before the Museum?

It was a “wretched stretch of land” according to Dr. William Pepper’s biography. “One gray March days, in 1894, Dry. […]

An October 14, 2004, I had the pleasure of introducing a lecture at the Museum entitled “Poison Arrows and Scorpion […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 2

By: Greg Borgstede, Beebe Bahrami and Vanessa Smith

The Maya, Pashtun, and Egypt: Book News & Reviews

The Maya (seventh edition) The Maya (seventh edition) by Michael D. Coe (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005). 272 pp., 186 illus, […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 2

By: Xiuqin Zhou

Excavations at Zhaoling, Shaanxi, China: More Light on the Museum’s Chinese Horse Reliefs: Field Experience

In 2003 the Beilin Museum in Xi’an, China, informed the Penn Museum that an excavation was taking place at the […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 2

By: William B. Hafford

Hanging in the Balance: Precision Weighing in Antiquity: Research Notes

Have you ever asked yourself, “Just how accurate was ancient weighing? Probably not, but that is what I ask myself […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 2

By: Michael D. Danti

Returning to Iran: Research Notes

The Penn Museum has had a long and auspicious history of involvement in the archaeology of Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution in […]

The formal name, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, clearly connects our museum to the larger Penn […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 2

By: Alex Pezzati

The Scholar and the Impostor: From the Archives

“Real South African at U. of P. Museum” Thus was a new “exhibit” at the Museum announced on January 28, […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Harold L. Dibble, Curator, European Archaeology Section: Meet the Curators

HAROLD L. DIBBLE, Curator-in-Charge of the European Archaeology Section at the Museum, has been fascinated with stone tools and archaeology […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 3

By: Timothy Kaiser and Stašo Forenbaher

Archaeological Caving in Croatia: The Illyrian Rituals of Nakovana Cave

From the tip of the strategically important Peljesac peninsula on Croatia’s Dalmatian coast Nakovana Cave overlooks the Adriatic Sea and […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 3

By: Alessandro Pezzati

Mystery at Acámbaro, Mexico: Did Dinosaurs Coexist with Humans?: From the Archives

Beginning in 1950 stories of a large collection of strange ancient figurines surfaced in the American and Mexican press. Waldemar […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 3

By: Elin C. Danien

A Ritual Vessel in a Maya Cave: Chocolate-Loving Monkeys and Humans: What in the World

Caves in the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala were frequently used for rituals and burials by the ancient Maya. This cylindrical […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 3

By: Mark Aldenderfer

Caves as Sacred Places on the Tibetan Plateau

Although most of us think of Tibet as a high plateau riven by high mountain chains wide open to the […]

In 1986, while documenting rock painting sites in Kakadu National Park, east of Darwin in northern Australia, I came upon […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 3

By: Kathleen Ryan and Karega-Münene

The Origins of Pastoralism in Eastern Africa: Archaeological Exploration on the Laikpia: Research Notes

How do cattle herders such as the pastoral Maasai of East Africa, manage to survive and often prosper in harsh […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Alex Pezzati

‘So long, until tomorrow’: Lowell Thomas and the ‘History of Civilization’ Fireplace: From the Archives

LOWELL JACKSON THOMAS (1892–1981) was the voice of the news in the U.S. for almost half a century, hosting CBS […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Gregory L. Possehl

Shu-ilishu’s Cylinder Seal: What in the World

Some Years Ago, while perusing the great Assyriologist A. Leo Oppenheim’s Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization, I found […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Elin C. Danien

Caroline Dosker: She Dusted the Mummies: Portrait

For many of us who knew her, Caroline Dosker’s death on June 26, 2005, marked the end of a more […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Louise Krasniewicz

‘Round Up the Usual Suspects’: Anthropology Goes to the Movies

In 1946, while most anthropologists were exercising their professional skills and curiosities in cultures far from home, Hortense Powdermaker took […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Igor Kopytoff

A Short History of Anthropology at Penn

His Brief History of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania emphasizes three periods: the Department’s protohistory in the 19th century, […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Stuart Kirsch

History and the Birds of Paradise: Surprising Connection from New Guinea

How can a woman’s hat made in New York City (ca. 1915) and decorated with iridescent bird of paradise plumes […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: James McClelland

King Tut Exhibition Comes to Philadelphia: Penn Museum’s David P. Silverman Is National Curator: Exhibit Notes

The international touring exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs will end its tour of the U.S. next […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Beebe Bahrami

Bear Daughter: Book News & Reviews

Bear Daughter by Judith Berman (New York: Ace Books, 2005). 422 pp., paper $16.00 ISBN 0441013228. Reviewed by Beebe Bahrami, a […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski and Maysoon al-Nahar

When Stone Is More Than Stone: Clues to Prehistoric Resource Use in Jordan

Scattered Across the world on the surface and in buried deposits are billions of prehistoric stone artifacts the most durable […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Olivia Given and Shawn Hyla

Forging Partnerships in Laos: Archaeological Survey Using Mobile GIS: Research Notes

Peoples living in mainland Southeast Asia during the middle Holocene (ca. 6000 – 2000 BC) made some profound subsistence and […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Janet Chrzan

Why Study Culinary Tourism?: Answers for a Healthy Life: Research Notes

The first time I heard about the academic study of tourism—an undergraduate course the University of California at Berkeley entitled […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: James R. Mathieu

From the Editor – Spring 2006

Welcome to the first issue of Expedition for 2006! We are pleased to present an eclectic issue covering a wide […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Richard M. Leventhal

Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933–2005): From the Director

In this issue I want to take a break from discussing the Penn Museum and note the passing of an […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology Section: Meet the Curators

Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Associate Curator-inCharge of Penn Museum’s Physical Anthropology Section, has traveled nearly full circle in her career. As an […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Jennifer Houser Wegner

David Randall-MacIver: Explorer of Abydos and Curator of The Egyptian Section

As a young man of 26, the British-born archaeologist and anthropologist David Randall-MacIver began his career working at Abydos as […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Richard M. Leventhal

The Penn Compact and Penn Museum: From the Director

President Amy Gutmann’s vision for the University of Pennsylvania — “the Penn Compact”—articulates a three-part program focused upon the main […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Josef Wegner

Beneath the Mountain-of-Anubis: Ancient Egypt's First Hidden Royal Tomb

Ancient peoples throughout the world had sophisticated understandings of their landscape. Specific elements, such as mountains, were often identified as […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: James R. Mathieu

From the Editor – Summer 2006

Welcome to Expedition’s special issue on Egyptology! Here’s a detailed look at the Museum’s involvement in the archaeology of ancient […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Josef Wegner

One Pharaoh, Two Tombs

Most Egyptian pharaohs possessed only a single tomb, leaving little doubt as to where they were buried. But Senwosret III […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Dawn McCormack

Borrowed Legacy: Royal Tombs S9 and S10 at South Abydos

After the 12th Dynasty reigns of Senwsoret III (1878–1841 BCE) and Amenemhet III (1858–1812 BCE) the political and economic power […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Vanessa Smith

Food Fit for the the Soul of a Pharaoh: The Mortuary Temple's Bakeries and Breweries

Egyptian mortuary temples were more than just religious centers. They also served as the local representative of the state, combining […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Josef Wegner

Abydos And The Cult Of Osiris

Ancient Abydos (Abdju) played a lengthy and important role in the development of Egyptian civilization. Located 500 km south of […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Josef Wegner

Beautiful-Is-The-KA

Extensively excavated since 1994, the mortuary temple of Senwosret III housed a limestone cult building at its core. Its central […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 2

By: Josef Wegner

Echoes of Power: The Mayor's House of Ancient Wah-Sut

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Jan Olofsson and Egil Josefson

The Frontier of Archaeological Reconstruction: Horse Sacrifice at Eketorp Fort, Sweden

In 1978 the archaeological remains of Eketorp Fort were reconstructed on Öland Island in the Baltic Sea, establishing the first […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Ivor Jankovic and Ivor Karavanic

Digging Up Neandertals at Mujina Pećina?: A Mousterian Cave Site in Croatia

Neandertals are everyone’s favorite image of a classic “caveman.” We know more about them than we do about any other […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: James R. Mathieu

From the Editor – Spring 2007

In this first issue of Expedition for 2007 we are excited to present feature articles highlighting a wide variety of […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director – Spring 2007

As Penn Museum celebrates its 120th year of activity, we still take seriously our original trifold mission of cutting-edge archaeological […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Meet the New Board Chair: Michael J. Kowalski: Chairman of the Museum's Board of Overseers

Penn museum welcomed Michael J. Kowalski as Chairman of the Museum Board of Overseers on July 1, 2006. Kowalski graduated […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Chris Knutson

The “Tired Stones” of Lake Titicaca: Field Experience

On the morning of August 7, 2002, my colleagues and I crossed the border from Bolivia into Peru. Just past […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Gregory L. Possehl

The Middle Asian Interaction Sphere: Research Notes

In the early 1920s Sir John Marshall’s investigations of the ancient cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa (now located in Pakistan) […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Stephen Batiuk and Mitchell S. Rothman

What Defines the ETC?

ETC cultures were first identified on the basis of their pottery in the Transcaucasus area between the Kura and Araxes […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Jan Olofsson and Egil Josefson

The Development of Eketorp Fort

Eketorp Fort—a prehistoric ring fort—was completely excavated between 1964 and 1974. The first fort (Eketorp I) was built during the […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Anne Schiller

Borneo Families in this Life and the Next: Adherents of Kaharingan among the Nagaju Dayaks

After days of hard travel on a weather-beaten boat named Font of Prosperity, I was happy to arrive at the […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Philip Lieberman and Robert McCarthy

Tracking the Evolution of Language and Speech: Comparing Vocal Tracts to Identify Speech Capabilities

In 1973 Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” This dictum applies […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Matt Tomlinson

Reversing Anthropology: Book News & Reviews

Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea by Stuart Kirsch (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: James R. Mathieu

From the Editor – Summer 2007

Anthropology is a very broad field, encompassing the subfields of archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. In this […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Daniel A. Meyer and Jason Roe

Archaeology Along Canada’s Rocky Mountain Eastern Slopes: Excavations at the Upper Lovett Campsite, Alberta

Canada’s rocky mountains and the foothills of the Eastern Slopes are, archaeologically speaking, among the least-known areas in North America. […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Daniel A. Meyer and Jason Roe

A Brief Culture History of the Eastern Slope

During the last Ice Age the glaciers in west-central Alberta reached their maximum extent about 20,000 years ago, forming a […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: George F. Bass

Nautical Archaeology: From Its Beginnings at Penn to Today's INA

It all began nearly half a century ago at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 1959, […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Janet Chrzan

Dreaming of Tuscany: Pursuing the Anthropology of Culinary Tourism

If you were to think of a place you have visited, especially a well-known tourist destination like San Francisco or […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Holly Pittman

From the Deputy Director for Academic Programs – Summer 2007

For more than a century a core mission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Barry L. Eichler: Associate Curator-in-Charge, Babylonian Section: Meet the Curators

A fascination with the human condition and the problems that society attempts to solve is the driving force behind the […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Gareth Darbyshire

Keith DeVries: Associate Curator Emeritus, Mediterranean Section: Portrait

Keith Devries, Associate Curator Emeritus in the Mediterranean Section, passed away at the age of 69 on July 16, 2006, […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Aubrey Baadsgaard

Imaging Ur’s Sacrificial Dead: An Archaeological CAT Scan: Science & Archaeology

Some 4,600 years ago processions of royal courtiers—including soldiers, musicians, ladies-in-waiting, ox- cart and chariot drivers, and animal grooms—accompanied their […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Nicholas S. Picardo

The Dig House at Abydos: Field Experience

During the latter part of ancient Egypt’s Middle Kingdom in the 18th century BCE, a royal edict forbade the placement […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Herbert Poepoe

REU Student Herbert Poepoe

As a native Hawaiian, I was fortunate to have been able to participate in the REU-NSF program during both the […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Nanibaa Beck

REU Student Nanibaa Beck

Sitting on a couch on the first floor of one of Penn’s dormitory high-rises, the REU students waited patiently for […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Sonya Ashley

REU Student Sonya Ashley

Like my friend Herbert Poepoe, I was fortunate to participate in the REU program twice (2006, 2007). Having just graduated […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Tim Powell and Larry Aitken

A Digital Partnership: Penn Museum and Ojibwe Tribal Historians: Research Notes

Gi Bugadin-a-maa Goom (Ojibwe: “To Sanction, to Give Authority, to Bring to Life”)—offers an exciting glimpse into how digital technology […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Jennifer Houser Wegner

From Fiction to Festchrift: Book News & Reviews

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran (New York: Crown, 2007). 480 pp., 1 map, 1 family tree, cloth, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-307-38146-0. Reviewed by Jennifer Houser Wegner, Research […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Andrew L. Goldman

From Phrygian Capital to Rural Fort: New Evidence for the Roman Military at Gordion, Turkey

At the age of 20, Tritus, the son of Bato, joined the Roman army as a soldier of the VII […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Elizabeth G. Hamilton

Adventures in Experimental Smelting: Iron the Old-fashioned Way

It was a perfect October day to play with fire. The sun shone brightly on the barnyard of the Peters […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Lucy Fowler Williams, Isabel C. Gonzales and Shawn Tafoya

WaHa-belash adi Kwan tsáawä / Butterflies and Blue Rain: The Language of Contemporary Eastern Pueblo Embroidery

Pueblo people of the American Southwest say that as long as there is Pueblo religion there will be handmade cloth. […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Richard Hodges

My First Encounter with Philadelphia: From the Director

Philadelphia and the Penn Museum have long held a special place in my heart. In 1980, renowned British archaeologist Colin […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

C. Brian Rose: Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section: Meet the Curators

The spark that led to a career in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world for C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge of […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Abigail Seldin, Herbert Poepoe, Nanibaa Beck and Sonya Ashley

Building Bridges with “Native Voices”: Reflections on the REU-NSF Program, 2005-2007: Class Notes

In 2003 the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Jeremy A. Sabloff, then Williams Director of the Penn Museum, and Janet […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb

Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution

Cuba’s unique anachronisms—crumbling colonial architecture, vintage American cars, and the same Commander-in-Chief for nearly half a century—hold an allure for […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: David R. Starbuck

The “Massacre” at Fort William Henry: History Archaeology, and Re-enactement

The clash of cultures on the colonial frontier of 18th century America pitted British against French and Indian against Indian, creating […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Benjamin W. Porter and Athna May Porter

“Taking in the Waters” at LaDuke Hot Springs Resort: Early 20th Century Medical Tourism in Montana

Hot Springs Found all over the world, on land and under the ocean, hot springs are wells of geothermal-heated groundwater. […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Ann Blair Brownlee and David B. Brownlee

Penn in the World: Twelve Decades at the University of Pennsylvania Museum: Exhibit Notes

In the fall of 2006, we assembled a marvelously diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students from the Departments of […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Lynn Grant

What Do You Think of That?: Museum Staffers Blog about Museums: Conservation Notes

Most of us who work in museums usually entered the field because of a love for museums. One of the […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb

Cuba: The Accidental Revolution: Film News & Reviews - Spring 2008

Cuba: The Accidental Revolution Written and Directed by Ray Burley. (Produced by CBC’s The Nature of Things, 2006). 90 min, color, […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Alex Pezzati

Charles R. Sheeler, Jr.: A Famous Artist Photographs the Museum: Charles R. Sheeler, Jr.: A Famous Artist Photographs the Museum

Charles R. Sheeler, jr. (1883–1965), a pioneer of American modernism, was one of the most important American artists and photographers […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Meet the New Director: Richard Hodges, The Williams Director

On October 1, 2007, Penn Museum welcomed its new Williams Director, Dr. Richard Hodges, O.B.E. His archaeological career began in […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Richard Hodges

Giving to the Museum: From the Director

Philanthropic giving is at the heart of modern American museums—it exists on a scale that makes a European blush with […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Debbie Tsarfati

Bringing Excitement to the Classroom: A Sabbatical at the Museum: Class Notes

“Why do we have to learn this?” and “How will I ever use this in my life?” Each September new […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Janet Monge and Alan Mann

Surviving: A Lightning Rod: Exhibit Notes

“The exhibition promises to break new ground as the first of its kind to address aspects of human evolution in […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: James R. Mathieu

From the Editor – Spring 2008

Welcome to the first issue of Expedition’s 50th volume! Once again, we present three feature articles—two on historical archaeological research […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 2

By: Louise Krasniewicz

Veni, Vidi, Vici: Taking a Chance on Chance

In the popular video slot machine called “Pompeii,” a chorus of male voices chants, “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” when gold coins consecutively […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 2

By: Allison Lewis

Conservator Education at the Museum: An Intern’s Experience: Conservation Notes

Conservators are responsible for the care of museum collections, making sure that objects are stored, transported, handled, studied, and exhibited […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 2

By: Elin C. Danien

Treasure in the Stable: The Long Lost Papers of Robert Burkitt: Field Experience

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Vol. 51 / No. 1

By: Eleanor M. King

From Mules to Lasers: Maya Fieldwork Over the Years: Field Experience

IN MORLEYANA—The affectionate posthumous tribute to noted Mayanist S. G. Morley—friends reminisced about his days in the field, recalling mule […]

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Vol. 51 / No. 1

By: Sarah Kurnick

Crossing Boundaries: Maya Censers from the Guatemala Highlands

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Vol. 52 / No. 1

By: Teresa P. Raczek and Namita S. Sugandhi

Time Periods in Southeastern Rajasthan

Penn Museum has launched a new expedition. Explicitly for undergraduates of the University, it is a summer school based in […]

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Vol. 52 / No. 2

By: Alessandro Pezzati

The Pennsylvania Declaration: From the Archives

Forty years have passed since Penn Museum Director Froelich Rainey presented the famous Pennsylvania Declaration, giving our Museum the distinction […]

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Vol. 52 / No. 2

By: Heather Hughes

A Hidden Gem at the Penn Museum: What in the World

Thanks to the voracious collecting habits of Maxwell Sommerville (1829–1904), the Penn Museum boasts an impressive collection of engraved gems. The former […]

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Vol. 52 / No. 2

By: Thanik Lertcharnrit

An Early Ivory Bracelet from Central Thailand: From the Field

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Vol. 53 / No. 1

By: Jane Hickman

From the Editor – Spring 2011

Over the last several decades, Afghanistan has suffered from invasion, revolution, and civil war. Although we frequently read about the […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 1

By: Lucy Fowler Williams

Guerilla Fashion: Textiles in Motion Push Change in Indian Art: From the Field

Patricia Michaels is not new to fashion, but she is new to Santa Fe’s celebrated Southwest Indian Art Market, a […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 1

By: Jean MacIntosh Turfa

Telmu and Petrui: A Rediscovered Romance?: What in the World?

Some rare evidence for social change in ancient Etruria reposes in the Penn Museum’s Mediterranean Section, in two large ovoid […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 1

By: Alessandro Pezzati

Jim Thompson, the Thai Silk King: From the Archive

Younger generations may not know Jim Thompson (1906-1967?), but in the 1950s and 1960s he was famous throughout the world […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 1

By: Richard Hodges

Penn Museum and Afghanistan: From the Director

Penn Museum has long had a part in revealing Afghan archaeological history. In 1953, at Director Froelich Rainey’s instigation, Rodney […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 1

By: Brian Spooner

Afghan Wars, Oriental Carpets, and Globalization

The Afghan war rugs on exhibit at the Penn Museum from April 30 to July 31, 2011, raise a number […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 1

By: Brian Spooner

Afghanistan’s War Experience

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Vol. 53 / No. 2

By: Giovanna Bianchi

The Hungry Archaeologist – Metal Hills

Throughout the Metal Hills, it is easy to find a restaurant where one can enjoy food that is both delicious […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 2

By: Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio

The Villa del Casale of Piazza Armerina

The Villa del Casale, near Piazza Armerina in south-central Sicily, is arguably one of the best-preserved and best-known Roman villas, […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 2

By: Giuliano Volpe

Rediscovering the Heel: Archaeology and History in Northern Apulia

Daunia, the ancient territory that occupied the modern province of Foggia in northen Puglia, is extraordinarily rich in cultural heritage. […]

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Vol. 53 / No. 2

By: Giuliano Volpe

The Hungry Archaeologist – Daunia

Vol. 55 / No. 3

By: Julian Siggers

Transforming Understanding of the Native American Experience: From the Director

Vol. 60 / No. 3

By: Eric H. Hobson

Brazil From Above: General Rondon and the Matto Grosso Expedition

In 1931, the Penn Museum’s Matto Grosso Expedition landed a serendipitous opportunity to court the celebrated Brazilian Army general who […]

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Vol. 60 / No. 3

By: Christina Griffith

Dogs and Cats and Birds, Oh My!: The Penn Museum's Egyptian Animal Mummies

While most visitors to the Museum are drawn to the mummified people from Ancient Egypt, humans are not alone in […]

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Vol. 60 / No. 3

By: Salima Ikram and Paul Nicholson

Sacred Animal Cults in Egypt: Excavating the Catacombs of Anubis at Saqqara

A recent excavation at Saqqara, Egypt, is exposing an ancient bustling economy associated with pilgrims and animal cults. Catacombs dedicated […]

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Vol. 60 / No. 3

By: Julian Siggers

The Transformation Continues: From the Director

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Vol. 61 / No. 1

By: Julian Siggers

The Sphinx Is On The Move: From the Director

Dear Friends, It is my great pleasure to share the monumental news: our iconic Sphinx of Ramesses II is on […]

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Vol. 61 / No. 1

By: Jane Hickman

Sixty Years of Expedition: From the Editor

In the fall of 1958, the first issue of Expedition magazine was published by the Penn Museum. Contents included an […]

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Vol. 61 / No. 2

By: Alessandro Pezzati

The Last Step in a Long Journey: Moving Monuments From Piedras Negras Into the Penn Museum, 1933; Looking Back

IN 1930, J. Alden Mason, American Section Curator, arranged for an unprecedented loan from the Government of Guatemala of Maya […]

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Vol. 61 / No. 2

By: Jane Hickman

Portrait: Elin Danien (1929-2019)

—To the memory of my hero, my co-conspirator, and my very good friend. ELIN DANIEN was more than a force […]

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Vol. 61 / No. 2

By: Heather J. Sharkey

A Famous Queen Mother from Benin: Favorite Object

THE QUEEN MOTHER, or “Iyoba,” was a powerful figure in the Edo kingdom of Benin, which ruled parts of the […]

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Vol. 61 / No. 2

By: Marie-Claude Boileau, Moritz Jansen, Janet Monge, Katherine Moore and Chantel White

In the Labs: Celebrating Five Years of CAAM

Vol. 63 / No. 1

By: Megan C. Kassabaum and Austin J. Bell

From Lantern Slides to Snapchat: The Key Marco Collection Rediscovered

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Vol. 63 / No. 2

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: Community Partnerships

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Vol. 63 / No. 3

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: Connecting with Our Neighbors

Vol. 64 / No. 2

By: Christopher Woods, Ph. D.

From the Williams Director: Physical and Philosophical Transformation

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Vol. 65 / No. 1

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: Research and Reflection

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Vol. 66 / No. 1

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: Community Collaborations

Dear Friends, When I wrote to you in the Fall 2023 Expedition, we had just heard that Gordion, where the […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 1

By: Quinn Russell Brown

From the Editor: The People are the Stories

As someone who comes to work every day at the Penn Museum, it can feel like our permanent galleries and […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 2

By: Simon Martin

Strangers in the Land: Rethinking the Classic Maya Collapse

By 800 CE, the Classic Maya had scaled remarkable, even improbable, heights. In an outwardly hostile, resource-poor rainforest, they created […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 2

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: New Season of Scholarship

Dear Friends, This issue of Expedition features articles by two of our Penn Museum curators whose scholarship I have admired […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 2

By: Quinn Russell Brown

From the Editor: The Message Inside a Monument

For the cover of this issue, we’ve stood you face-to-face with a 1,200-year-old stone monument known as Caracol Altar 13. […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 3

By: Chantel E. White

Oh, the Places You’ll Grow: The Summer Archaeobotany Field Program

THE WORDS “ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK” may bring to mind images of people digging, pushing wheelbarrows, and sieving soil to collect artifacts. […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 3

By: Thomas F. Tartaron

Ten Years of Excellence at CAAM: The Road to Becoming a Premier Center for Archaeological Science

TO VISIT THE Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM) in the Penn Museum is to experience a vibrant, […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 3

By: Marie-Claude Boileau

From the Guest Editor: A Vibrant Scientific Community

In early January 2025, CAAM hosted an Open House event to welcome colleagues attending the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 3

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: From Lab to Field

Dear Friends, This special issue of Expedition is devoted to celebrating the tenth Anniversary of The Center for the Analysis […]

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