Volume 1 / Number 3
1959
On The Cover: View along balk separating excavated areas at Hasanlu, Azerbaijan, Iran. Doorways to the right belong to the Burned Building of the ninth century BC excavated by a Joint Expedition of the University Museum and the Iranian Archaeological Service.
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Double Trouble
Contamination can be defined variously as pollution, defilement, taint, but to us in the C-14 laboratory it is just double […]
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By: Carleton S. Coon
Clever People, These Armenians
Deep in the oven-like summer of 1951 I was obliged, for reasons that have nothing to do with this story, […]
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By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
Digging in Iran: Hasanlu, 1958
Expeditions, especially archaeological ones, often produce unexpected results. The last Hasanlu Expedition was no exception. It started slowly with what […]
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By: Samuel Noah Kramer
A Sumerian Document with Microscopic Cunieform
The Department of Oriental Antiquities in the Louvre in Paris is the fortunate possessor of the remains of a Sumerian […]
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By: Edith Porada
The Hasanlu Bowl
One glance at the gold bowl from Hasanlu with its varied scenes of gods, heroes, monsters, and men suffices to […]
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Expedition News – Spring 1959
Tikal, Guatemala Mr. Shook, Field Director of the Tikal Expedition, has just made an exciting discovery–a stela inscribed with a […]
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By: Marianne L. Stoller
Te-moana-nui-o-Kiwa: The final article in a series about the finding and naming of some of the islands in the Pacific--the Maori great sea of Kiwa.
In previous articles we have considered various discoveries made by five nations–Holland, Spain, Britain, France, and the United States. There […]
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What in the World – Spring 1959
Can you identify the subject of this photograph? Answer on page 40. Did you recognize these sand dunes in the […]
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