Volume 45 / Number 1
2003
Special Edition: The Celts
On The Cover: Tableware found on a courtyard surface outside the potter's workshop. Light-colored pottery decorated with red or brown bands is common in this part of the site. See Celts at Gordion: The Late Hellenistic Settlement. Photo Credit: Mary Voigt.
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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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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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: 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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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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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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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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Museum Mosaic – Spring 2003: People, Places, Projects
After 12 years of ethno- archaeological field- work in present-day Maasai territory in southern Kenya, I have extended my focus […]
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