Volume 25 / Number 3
1983
On The Cover: The Islamic Gallery in the Museum. Photo by Michael Wakely.
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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By: Carolyn Fleuhr-Lobban
Challenging Some Myths: Women in Shari'a (Islamic) Law in the Sudan
Perhaps no other topic in Islamic law has drawn such attention in the West as that of the purported low […]
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By: Karla Klein Albertson
The Return of The University Museum Demeter: A Greek Goddess Attempts to Establish Her Identity
For more than forty years a graceful marble statuette of a Greek goddess (Figs. 1-3) stood unnoticed in a storage […]
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By: Barbara J. Hayden
Work Continues at Vrokastro 1910-12, 1979-82: A New Plan and Description of the Early Iron Age Settlement
Richard Seager originally identified the early Iron Age settlement of Vrokastro, on a limestone spur (Fig. 1) just south of […]
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By: Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Intensive Gardening Among the Late Classic Maya: A Possible Example at Ixtutz, Guatemala
The low lying areas of the Southern Maya Lowlands of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize were at one time crisscrossed with […]
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