Volume 1 / Number 4
1959
On The Cover: Bronze head of an Oba from Benin. Collection Object Number: AF2064B
Vol. 1 / No. 4
Where in the World?
Museum News: Hasanlu, Iran The members of the expedition to Hasanlu, under the leadership of Robert H. Dyson, Jr., arrived […]
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Vol. 1 / No. 4
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Archaeological Visitors
I first became aware of the archaeological visitors (we called them tourists), in the early twenties, when our family used […]
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By: Robert Ackerman
Siberians of the New World: An archaeologist spends the summer on St. Lawrence Island.
Far to the north in the region of the Bering Straits, Russian and American archaeologists working independently of each other […]
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By: Margaret Plass
The Art of Benin
An evaluation based on discussions with William Fagg, Deputy Keeper of Ethnography in the British Museum. The art of Benin […]
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By: Kenneth D. Matthews, Jr.
Portrait of a Hero
Between 1931 and 1933 workmen under the direction of Jotham Johnson labored for the University Museum at a Roman site […]
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By: William R. Coe
Tikal 1959
At this Maya site in northern tropical Guatemala the fourth season of field work under the direction of Edwin M. […]
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By: Temple Fay, Jack L. Benson and L. Arnold Post
“The Head” – Menander: A Neurosurgeon's Analysis of a Great Stone Portrait
Preface Undoubtedly the most controversial portrait surviving from antiquity is one which exists in many copies and which has most […]
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Museum News – Summer 1959
Hasanlu, Iran The members of the expedition to Hasanlu, under the leadership of Robert H. Dyson, Jr., arrived in Iran […]
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By: David Crownover
Ancient and Primitive Art in Philadelphia Collections
Art of any period or time has been seen to pass through a life cycle: dynamic in youth, overcome by […]
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By: Temple Fay
Relevant Information About Menander
In general we know comparatively little about the life history and personal traits of ancient worthies. The evidence for Menander […]
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