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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By: Deborah I. Olszewski and Nancy R. Coinman
An Ice Age Oasis in Jordan: Pleistocene Hunter-gatherers in the Wadi al-Hasa Region
If you visited the Wadi al-Hasa region of west central Jordan today, you would probably find it hard to picture […]
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By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Donald White: Meet the Curators
Some of you know a thing or two about our featured museum curator, Donald White, because of his role in […]
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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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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. 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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By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Gregory L. Possehl, Curator, Asian Section: Meet the Curators
The Summer of 2004 marked 40 years of archaeological research in India and Pakistan for Gregory L. Possehl, Curator in […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Meet the Curators – Josef Wegner: Associate Curator, Egyptian Section
The Museum’s Josef Wegner, Associate Curator in the Egyptian Section, has been interested in Egyptology since childhood. Growing up in […]
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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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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: 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. 3
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Robert L. Schuyler: Associate Curator-in-Charge, Historical Archaeology Section: Meet the Curators
Robert L. Schuyler, Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Museum’s Historical Archaeology Section, remembers a fascination with the past as a 4-year-old living […]
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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. 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. 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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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. 2
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Clark L. Erickson: Meet the Curators
Growing up surrounded by his mother’s books and framed travel photos of archaeological sites and places such as Lebanon, Egypt, […]
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Vol. 50 / No. 3
By: Harold L. Dibble, Shannon P. McPherron, Deborah I. Olszewski, Jennifer R. Smith, Utsav Schurmans and Laurent Chiotti
Prehistoric Abydos: Africa's Gateway to the World
Most Expedition readers will be familiar with the Museum’s longstanding Egyptian research project at Abydos, which focuses on Abydos’s ancient […]
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Vol. 50 / No. 3
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Nancy S. Steinhardt, Curator of Chinese Art, Asian Section: Meet the Curators
Penn museum’s curator of Chinese Art in the Asian Section, Nancy S. Steinhardt, began studying Chinese while attending the Mark […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 1
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Robert J. Sharer: Meet the Curators
Robert J. Sharer, Curator-in-Charge of the Museum’s American Section, became interested in archaeology as an undergraduate when he took a […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 2
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Lauren Ristvet: Meet the Curators
Lauren Ristvet, the Robert H. Dyson, Jr. Assistant Curator in the Museum’s Near East Section, became interested in archaeology while […]
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Vol. 60 / No. 2
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Harold Dibble: Scientist and Mentor, 1951-2018
Harold L. Dibble, preeminent paleoanthropologist, passed away on June 10, 2018, age 66. He was first and foremost a scientist […]
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