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Expedition Volume 41, Number 1 Spring 1999
Cover: UM Neg. G11-30837, Attributed to William Witte. View of the Museum in 1899, taken from the grounds of the first Franklin Field Stadium.
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Features
Vengeful Spirits and Guardian Deities--Myth and Sculpture in the Eastern Solomon Islands
William H. Davenport
Hidden Treasures from the Vault--Engraved Gems from the Maxwell Sommerville Collection
Dietrich Berges
Architectural Archaeology--A Centennial View of the Museum Buildings
Douglas M. Haller
Expedition Volume 41, Number 2 Summer 1999
Special Issue: Searching for Early Kings at Copan
Cover: Photo by Bunny Coates. The Yehnal Mask beneath the Acropolis at Copan, Honduras. The polychrome painted stucco mask located on the western facade of the Yehnal Platform shows a k'inich (sun) figure.
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Features
Archaeology and History in the Royal Acropolis, Copan, Honduras
Robert J. Sharer
Tunneling into the Heart of the Copan Acropolis
David W. Sedat and Fernadno Lopez
Dynasty Founder Yax K'uk' Mo' According to the Inscriptions
John F. Harris
Expedition Volume 41, Number 3 Winter 1999
Cover: Photo by Joyce White. Lake Kumphawapi in northeast Thailand. Core samples taken from the lake provide clues to changes in the ancient environment.
Features
Terfo--Survival of a Weaving Tradition in New Guinea
Michael C. Howard and Naffi Sanggenafa
Mastodons, Mound Builders, and Montroville Wilson Dickeson--Pioneering American Archaeologist
Richard Veit
Pollen Grains in Sands of Time--Lake Sediments Contribute to the Archaeology of Thailand
Dan Penny
On the Track of the Ancient Silk Road
Fredrik T. Hiebert
Expedition Volume 42, Number 1 Spring 2000
Cover: Photo by Naomi F. Miller. At the site of Gordion in Turkey, the Midas Mound dominates the landscape.
Features
Living on the Mesa--Hanat Kotyiti, A Post-Revolt Cochiti Community in Northern New Mexico
Robert W. Preucel
Gordion
Keith DeVries
The Funerary Banquet of "King Midas"
Patrick E. McGovern
Plants in the Service of Archaeological Preservation
Naomi F. Miller
Discovery of a New Temple on the Indus
Michael W. Meister, with Abdur Rehman and Farid Khan
Expedition Volume 42, Number 2 Summer 2000
Cover: Photo by Josef Wegner. Red-quartzite figure of pharoah Senwosret III from his mortuary temple at South Abydos.
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Features
A Hundred Years at South Abydos--Reconstructing the Temple of Pharoal Senwosret III
Josef Wegner
A Masterpiece in Clay--A Han House Model Reflects Traditional Chinese Life
Jennifer Lane White
Paradise Found--Petra's Urban Oasis
Leigh-Ann Bedal
Mapping Petra
Paul Zimmerman
Expedition Volume 42, Number 3 Winter 2000
Cover: Photo by Francine Sarin, UPM 29-225-37. A Kalighat painting of the goddess Chandi with elephant.
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Features
American Collections Inspire Native Artists and Indian Communities
Lucy Williams and Melissa Wagner
The Margarita Tomb at Copan, Honduras--A Research Update
Ellen E. Bell, Robert J. Sharer, David W. Sedat, Marcello A. Canuto, and Lynn A. Grant
"The Real Me"--Therapeutic Narrative in Cosmetic Surgery
Rebecca Huss-Ashmore
Expedition Volume 43, Number 1 Spring 2001
Special Issue: Eurasian and Black Sea Archaeology
Cover: Photo by Fredrik T. Hiebert. Outer harbor at Sinop, Turkey, on the Black Sea.
Features
Eurasian Archaeology
Fredrik T. Hiebert
Black Sea Coastal Cultures--Trade and Interaction
Fredrik T. Hiebert
Early Herders of the Eurasian Steppe
Natalia Shishlina
Forest Hunters of Eurasia
Alexander Emel'yanov
Mancala--Games that Count
Alex de Voogt
Expedition Volume 43, Number 2 Summer 2001
Cover: Photo by Clark L. Erickson. Excavation of a road platform (center) and canal (lower center) in Baures, Bolivia.
Features
A Roman Town Cemetery at Gordion, Turkey
Andrew L. Goldman
Pre-Columbian Roads of the Amazon
Clark L. Erickson
Middle Egypt in Prehistory--A Search for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior and Human Dispersal
Deborah I. Olszewski, Shannon P. McPherron, Harold L. Dibble, and Marie Soressi
Decorated Canoe Prow-boards from the Trobriand Islands
Adria H. Katz
The Case of the Wayward Oracle Bone
Victor H. Mair
Expedition Volume 43, Number 3 Winter 2001
Cover: Photo by Ayse Gursan-Salzmann. Nazire Celtek, wife of a well-to-do full-time shepherd in her "milk room" at the summer grazing area, boiling morning milk for daily cheese and butter production.
Features
Work Parties and Raised Field Groups in the Bolivian Amazon
John H. Walker
The Women of Yassihoyuk, Turkey--Changing Roles in a New Economy
Ayse Gursan-Salzmann
Moving the Museum's Ethnographic Collections--A Conservation Approach
Leslie Guy
Palmyrene Funerary Sculptures at Penn
Michael Danti
Expedition Volume 44, Number 1 Spring 2002
Cover: UPM Photo 32-36-14. H. 47 cm. Potnia Theron, Mistress of Animals.
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Features
The World of the Latter-day Saints--A Life Plan Model
Melvyn Hammerberg
An Ice Age Oasis in Jordan--Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers in the Wadi al-Hasa Region
Deborah I. Olszewski and Nancy R. Coinman
A Story Told in Pieces--Architectural Terracottas from Minturnae
Valentina Livi
Excavating an Enigma--The Latest Discoveries from Tell es-Sweyhat
Michael D. Danti and Richard L. Zettler
Expedition Volume 44, Number 2 Summer 2002
Cover: Photo by Walwin Barr, Tikal Project Neg. 57-8-71. Temple 1 as it looked after preliminary clearing in 1957.
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Features
Village Air for Urban Elites--Heritage Cafe Complexes in Jordan
Sharon Nagy and Nabil Abu-Dayyeh
Restoration & Renewal--Museum Readies Mediterranean Section Galleries for the 21st Century
Charles A. Evers and Ann Blair Brownlee
Recovering the Lost Art of Phrygian Roof Tiling--Practical and Aesthetic Elements Converge in Clay, Reflecting Greek Artistic Temperament
Matt Glendinning
Expedition Volume 44, Number 3 Winter 2002
Cover: Photo by Y. Kobylecky and R. Fletcher, Abydos Middle Cemetery Project. View into grave chamber, Nekhty/Idi. The limestone sarcophagus dominates the small chamber; Nekhty's name and titles are visible on its northern end.
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Features
Through Assyria's Eyes--Israel's Relationship with Judah
Tammi J. Schneider
Time and Memory in Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries--The Dynamic History of Ancient Sites
Janet Richards
By Yon Bonnie Banks--An Archaeological Search for Clan MacFarlane
David R. Starbuck
Expedition Volume 45, Number 1 Spring 2003
Special Issue: The Celts
Cover: Photo by Mary Voigt. Tableware found on a courtyard surface outside the potter's workshop at Gordion, Turkey.
Features
Landscapes of Ancestors--Early Iron Age Hillforts and their Mound Cemeteries
Bettina Arnold
Celts at Gordion--The Late Hellenistic Settlement
Mary M. Voigt
The Celts and Urbanization--The Enduring Puzzle of the Oppida
Elizabeth Hamilton
Defining Kel'tik--The Case of the Insular Celts
Bernard Wailes
Expedition Volume 45, Number 2 Summer 2003
Special Issue: Food & Culture
Cover: Photo by Birch Miles. Two Afghan refugee boys from Badakhshan run this little dukkan. They sell oragnes, fava beans, and peanuts in Chitral's bazaar in Pakistan's western Himalayas. Photographed in March 1987, the boys were refugees from the Soviet-Afghan War.
Features
Uncommonly Good Food Among Commoners--Growing and Consuming Food in Ancient Ceren
Payson Sheets
Food from Here--Struggles and Triumphs at the Farmer's Diner in Vermont
Amy B. Trubek
Expedition Volume 45, Number 3 Winter 2003
Special Issue: The Americas
Cover: Photo by Peter T. Furst. Yarn painting by Jose Benitez Sanchez.
Features
The Bluff Great House--On the Periphery of the Chaco World
Christine Ward
Matches's Sketchbook--Native American P.O.W. Art from Fort Marion
William Wierzbowski
Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment--NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Robert W. Preucel, Lucy F. Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub, and Janet Monge
In the House--Maya Nobility and their Figurine-Whistles
Julia A. Hendon
Expedition Volume 46, Number 1 Spring 2004
Special Issue: Shamanism
Cover: Photo by Deborah Kapchan. The Gnawa in the Tuileries Gardens.
Features
Shamanism and Spirit
Edith Turner
Shimmering Visions--Shamanistic Rock Art Images from the Republic of Kazakhstan
Kenneth Lymer
On the Dilemma of a Horn--The Horned Shamans of West Mexico
Elin Danien
Visionary Plants and Ecstatic Shamanism
Peter T. Furst
Special Features:
Moroccan Gnawa and Transglobal Trance--The Medium is the Music
Deborah Kapchan
Expedition Volume 46, Number 2 Summer 2004
Special Issue: Ritual Places
Cover: Photo by T.J. Ferguson, 1999. A Hopi itaakuku (footprint) near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Features
Unprecedented Projects--The Birth of Mesoamerican Pyramids
Rosemary A. Joyce
The Multiple Landscapes of Vijayanagara--From the Mythic and the Ritual to the Kingly and the Common
Alexandra Mack
The Amazonian House--A Place of Women's Politics, Pottery, and Prestige
Brenda J. Bowser
Ang Kuktota--Hopi Ancestral Sites and Cultural Landscapes
Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma and T. J. Ferguson
Expedition Volume 46, Number 3 Winter 2004
Special Issue: Cultural Anthropology
Cover: Photo by Alma Gottlieb. Baby Sassandra enjoys a bike ride with his great-uncle.
Features
The Value of 'Culture'--An Example From Mongolia
Paula L.W. Sabloff
Babies as Ancestors, Babies as Spirits--The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
Alma Gottlieb
"The Culture of Reading" in a Public School--Ethnography, Service-Learning, and Undergraduate Researchers
Carolyn Behrman
Re-Orienting Yoga
Sarah Strauss
Special Feature
Henri Rey--The Inventor from Tahiti
William Davenport
Expedition Volume 47, Number 1 Spring 2005
Cover: Photo by James R. Mathieu. Looking east up the Rio Azul Valley in Guatemala's Western Highlands.
Features
Exploring the Western Highlands of Guatemala--New Perspectives on the Ancient Maya
Greg Borgstede
The Limes and Hadrian's Wall--Rome's Northern European Boundaries
Peter S. Wells
Life on the Frontier in Ancient Peru--Archaeological Investigations at Cerro la Cruz
Melissa Vogel
Special Feature
What Was There Before the Museum?
Ann Blair Brownlee
Expedition Volume 47, Number 2 Summer 2005
Cover: Photo by Case & Draper, courtesy of the Alaska State Library, Case & Draper Photograph Collection, PCA 39-401. Gaanaxteidi guests from Klukwan, 23 December 1904.
Features
The Centennial Potlatch
Robert W. Preucel and Lucy F. Williams
Reed Boats and Experimental Archaeology on Lake Titicaca
Alexei Vranich, Paul Harmon, and Chris Knutson
In the Valley of the Eagle--Zhang-Zhung, Kyunglung, and the Pre-Buddhist Sites of Far Western Tibet
Mark Aldenderfer and Holley Moyes
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