Vol. 43 / No. 2

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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Vol. 44 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski and Nancy R. Coinman

An Ice Age Oasis in Jordan: Pleistocene Hunter-gatherers in the Wadi al-Hasa Region

If you visited the Wadi al-Hasa region of west cen­tral Jordan today, you would probably find it hard to picture […]

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Vol. 45 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Donald White: Meet the Curators

Some of you know a thing or two about our featured museum curator, Donald White, because of his role in […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Richard Zettler: Associate Curator-In-Charge, Near East Section: Meet the Curators

Ancient Mesopotamia is Richard Zettler’s research passions. As Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Near East Section, and Associate Professor of Anthropologic, […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Meet the New Director: Richard M. Leventhal, the Williams Director

On JULY 1, 2004, a new era at the Penn Museum began when Richard M. Leventhal, noted Mesoamerican scholar, officinally assumed […]

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Vol. 46 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Robert W. Preucel, Associate Curator, American Section: Meet the Curators

One of the many hats Robert W. Preucel wears as the Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Associate Curator of North America is […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Gregory L. Possehl, Curator, Asian Section: Meet the Curators

The Summer of 2004 marked 40 years of archaeo­logical research in India and Pakistan for Gregory L. Possehl, Curator in […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Meet the Curators – Josef Wegner: Associate Curator, Egyptian Section

The Museum’s Josef Wegner, Associate Curator in the Egyptian Section, has been interested in Egyptology since childhood. Growing up in […]

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Vol. 47 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Harold L. Dibble, Curator, European Archaeology Section: Meet the Curators

HAROLD L. DIBBLE, Curator-in-Charge of the European Archaeology Section at the Museum, has been fascinated with stone tools and archaeology […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski and Maysoon al-Nahar

When Stone Is More Than Stone: Clues to Prehistoric Resource Use in Jordan

Scattered Across the world on the surface and in buried deposits are billions of prehistoric stone arti­facts the most durable […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology Section: Meet the Curators

Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Associate Curator-in­Charge of Penn Mus­eum’s Physical Anthropology Section, has traveled nearly full circle in her career. As an […]

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Vol. 48 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Robert L. Schuyler: Associate Curator-in-Charge, Historical Archaeology Section: Meet the Curators

Robert L. Schuyler, Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Museum’s Historical Archaeology Section, remembers a fascination with the past as a 4-year-old living […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Meet the New Board Chair: Michael J. Kowalski: Chairman of the Museum's Board of Overseers

Penn museum welcomed Michael J. Kowalski as Chairman of the Museum Board of Overseers on July 1, 2006. Kowalski graduated […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Barry L. Eichler: Associate Curator-in-Charge, Babylonian Section: Meet the Curators

A fascination with the human condition and the problems that society attempts to solve is the driving force behind the […]

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Vol. 49 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

C. Brian Rose: Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section: Meet the Curators

The spark that led to a career in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world for C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge of […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Meet the New Director: Richard Hodges, The Williams Director

On October 1, 2007, Penn Museum welcomed its new Williams Director, Dr. Richard Hodges, O.B.E. His archaeological career began in […]

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In 2007, Erickson surveyed cultural landscapes by canoe in the Bolivian Amazon.

Vol. 50 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Clark L. Erickson: Meet the Curators

Growing up surrounded by his mother’s books and framed travel photos of archaeological sites and places such as Lebanon, Egypt, […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 3

By: Harold L. Dibble, Shannon P. McPherron, Deborah I. Olszewski, Jennifer R. Smith, Utsav Schurmans and Laurent Chiotti

Prehistoric Abydos: Africa's Gateway to the World

Most Expedition readers will be familiar with the Museum’s longstanding Egyptian research project at Abydos, which focuses on Abydos’s ancient […]

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Vol. 50 / No. 3

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Nancy S. Steinhardt, Curator of Chinese Art, Asian Section: Meet the Curators

Penn museum’s curator of Chinese Art in the Asian Section, Nancy S. Steinhardt, began studying Chinese while attending the Mark […]

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Vol. 51 / No. 1

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Robert J. Sharer: Meet the Curators

Robert J. Sharer, Curator-in-Charge of the Museum’s American Section, became interested in archaeology as an undergraduate when he took a […]

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Vol. 51 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Lauren Ristvet: Meet the Curators

Lauren Ristvet, the Robert H. Dyson, Jr. Assistant Curator in the Museum’s Near East Section, became interested in archaeology while […]

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Vol. 60 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski

Harold Dibble: Scientist and Mentor, 1951-2018

Harold L. Dibble, preeminent paleoanthropologist, passed away on June 10, 2018, age 66. He was first and foremost a scientist […]

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