Research
Expedition Volume 47, Number 3 Winter 2005
Special Issue: Caves
Cover: Photo by Graeme Barker. The Neolithic cemetery is located in the West Mouth of Niah Great Cave, behind the fencing on the right.
Features
Caves as Sacred Places on the Tibetan Plateau
Mark Aldenderfer
Burial Rituals of Prehistoric Forager-Farmers in Borneo--The Neolithic Cemeteries of Niah Cave, Sarawak
Graeme Barker
What Did Ice Age People Do in the Deep Caves?
Jean Clottes
Archaeological Caving in Croatia--The Illyrian Rituals of Nakovana Cave
Timothy Kaiser and Staso Forenbaher
Expedition Volume 48, Number 1 Spring 2006
Cover: Photo by Anne Marie Kane. Photos from the Penn Museum Archives.
Features
"Round Up the Usual Suspects"--Anthropology Goes to the Movies
Louise Krasniewicz
History and the Birds of Paradise--Surprising Connections from New Guinea
Stuart Kirsch
When Stone Is More Than Stone--Clues to Prehistoric Resource Use in Jordan
Deborah I. Olszewski and Maysoon al-Nahar
Special Feature
A Short History of Anthropology at Penn
Igor Kopytoff
Expedition Volume 48, Number 2 Summer 2006
Special Issue: Egyptology
Cover: Photo by Josef Wegner. Workmen clear the entrance to the hidden subterranean tomb of Senwosret III.
Features
The Archaeology of South Abydos--Egypt's Late Middle Kingdom in Microcosm
Josef Wegner
The Excitement of First Discovery--South Abydos 1899-1903
Kei Yamamoto
David Randall-MacIver--Explorer of Abydos and Curator of the Egyptian Section
Jennifer Houser Wegner
Beneath the Mountain-of-Anubis--Ancient Egypt's First Hidden Royal Tomb
Josef Wegner
Expedition Volume 48, Number 3 Winter 2006
Cover: Photo by Abdul Nasir Khan. Ladakhi roads, now paved for vehicles, often follow the same difficult routes traders once traveled from region to region. Inset, in a small town near Kargil, curious children listen to an elder explain his role in Ladakhi trade. Photo by Jacqueline H. Fewkes.
Features
A Consuming Tradition--Kava Drinking in Fiji
Matt Tomlinson
Trade at the Crossroads of Continents--Northern India's Ladakh Region
Jacqueline H. Fewkes
Albert A. Giesecke (1883-1968)--A Philadelphian in the Land of the Incas
Daniel W. Gade
Expedition Volume 49, Number 1 Spring 2007
Cover: Photo by Russell D. Greaves. A Pume woman shares wild roots from a gourd bowl.
Features
Early Transcaucasian Cultures and Their Neighbors--Unraveling Migration, Trade, and Assimilation
Stephen Batiuk and Mitchell S. Rothman
The Ethnoarchaeology of Hunting and Collecting--Pumé Foragers of Venezuela
Russell D. Greaves
The Frontier of Archaeological Reconstruction--Horse Sacrifice at Eketorp Fort, Sweden
Jan Olofsson and Egil Josefson
Digging Up Neandertals at Mujina Pecina?--A Mousterian Cave Site in Croatia
Ivor Jankovic and Ivor Karavanic
Expedition Volume 49, Number 2 Summer 2007
Cover: Photo by Courtney Platt. The two-person submersible, Carolyn, assists in the lifting of amphorae at the site of Tektas Burnu.
Features
Borneo Families in This Life and the Next--Adherents of Kaharingan Among the Ngaju Dayaks
Anne Schiller
Tracking the Evolution of Language and Speech--Comparing Vocal Tracts to Identify Speech Capabilities
Philip Lieberman and Robert McCarthy
Dreaming of Tuscany--Pursuing the Anthropology of Culinary Tourism
Janet Chrzan
Archaeology Along Canada's Rocky Mountain Eastern Slopes--Excavations at the Upper Lovett Campsite, Alberta
Daniel A. Meyer and Jason Roe
Expedition Volume 49, Number 3 Winter 2007
Special Feature: Native America
Cover: Isabel Gonzales's great niece and nephew dance the "Buffalo" at the annual Red Rocks Arts and Crafts Fair at Jeméz Monument, 2004. This event was photographed by Isabel's family and printed with permission from Isabel Gonzales and her family.
Features
From Phrygian Capital to Rural Fort--New Evidence for the Roman Military at Gordion, Turkey
Andrew L. Goldman
Adventures in Experimental Smelting--Iron the Old-fashioned Way
Elizabeth G. Hamilton
Special Feature
WaHa-belash adi Kwan tsáawä / Butterflies and Blue Rain--The Language of Contemporary Eastern Pueblo Embroidery
Lucy Fowler Williams, Isabel C. Gonzales, and Shawn Tafoya
Expedition Volume 50, Number 1 Spring 2008
Cover: Photo by David R. Starbuck. This cannon barrage by British re-enactors generated enough smoke to blot out the sky during the re-enactment of the "Massacre" at Fort William Henry on 16 September 2007.
Features
'Taking in the Waters' at LaDuke Hot Springs Resort--Early 20th Century Medical Tourism in Montana
Benjamin W. Porter and Athna May Porter
The "Massacre" at Fort William Henry--History, Archaeology, and Re-Enactment
David R. Starbuck
Cuba in the Shadow of Change--Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution
Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb
Departments
From the Editor
Expedition Volume 50, Number 2 Summer 2008
Cover: Photo by David P. Silverman. From the sarcophagus chamber of Ramesses VI, the "Book of the Day"--with the "Book of the Night" visible just above--represents the sky as the body of the goddess Nut, who gives birth to the sun in the form of a winged scarab in the morning.
Features
Veni, Vidi, Vici--Taking a Chance on Chance
Louise Krasniewicz
The Rebirth of the Sun--Mortuary Art and Architecture in the Royal Tombs of New Kingdom Egypt
Joshua Roberson
A Morality Tale--Children and the Social Processes of Human Rights in The Gambia
Niklas Hultin
Expedition Volume 50, Number 3 Winter 2008
Special Issue: 50th Anniversary
Cover: Members of the Abydos Survey for Paleolithic Sites set off into the Egyptian desert. Photo by ASPS.
Features
Prehistoric Abydos--Africa's Gateway to the World
Harold Dibble, Shannon P. McPherron, Deborah I. Olszewski, Jennifer R. Smith, Utsav Schurmans, and Laurant Chiotti
From Clay to Computers--The Genesis of the Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Stephen J. Tinney
The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection--Historical Significance and New Research
Emily S. Renschler and Janet Monge
Departments
From the Editor
From the Director
Meet the Curators--Nancy S. Steinhardt
From the Archives--Is Your Mind Ready for Adventure?
Field Experience--Penn Museum's Youngest Egyptologist
Museum Mosaic--People, Places, Projects
Exhibit Notes--Iyare! Splendor and Tension in Benin's Palace Theatre
