Volume 43 / Number 2
2001
On The Cover: Excavation of a road platform (center) and canal (lower center) in Baures, Bolivia. Photo by Clark L. Erickson.
Vol. 43 / No. 2
By: Clark L. Erickson
Pre-Columbian Roads of the Amazon
Traditionally, archaeologists have studied “sites.” Sites include monuments, settlements, cities, cemeteries, mounds, and other important places of the past. The […]
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Vol. 43 / No. 2
Museum Mosaic – Summer 2001: People, Places, Projects
Highlights from the Museum’s traveling exhibition, ‘THE ROYAL TOMBS OF Ur”—including the world-renowned “Ram-in-the-Thicket,” Lady Pu-Abi’s headdress, and a gold and […]
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Vol. 43 / No. 2
By: Victor H. Mair
The Case of the Wayward Oracle Bone
Late last summer (2000), when I returned to my office from a research trip to China, a message was waiting for me […]
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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: 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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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: 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: Jeffrey M. Mitchem
The Willcox Copper Plate from Florida: Research Notes
My heart raced when I first saw it. I was in the Museum’s collections area with American Section Assistant Keeper […]
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Vol. 43 / No. 2
By: Alex Pezzati
Borneo and Beyond: The Adventures of Furness, Harrison, and Hiller: From the Archives
Between 1895 and 1903, three young men affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania undertook several expeditions to the mysterious world […]
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Vol. 43 / No. 2
By: Lucy Fowler Williams
Seeing Through the Eyes of an Artist: What in the World
Roxanne Wentzell, from Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, is a highly accomplished artist who specializes in sculpting human […]
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Vol. 43 / No. 2
By: Gerald Margolis
From the Deputy Director for Operations
My introduction to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology coincided with my first trip to Philadelphia twenty […]
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