Volume 3 / Number 1

1960

On The Cover: Bull's head of gold and lapis lazuli and inlaid plaque from the sound box of a lyre, and gold vessels and weapons--all found during the excavation of the Royal Cemetery at Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley. Collection Object Number: B17694B

man looking through telescope

Vol. 3 / No. 1

By: Alfred Bendiner

An Archaeologist’s Sketchbook

When Fro Rainey and his staff asked my wife and me to go to Tikal and make an architectural survey […]

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Vol. 3 / No. 1

By: Joseph A. Barone

Patterns in Music

In the story of Man, music has often provided a key to his artistic growth. It has revealed striking similarities […]

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Photo of people in canoe on the water

Vol. 3 / No. 1

By: Ann Chowning

Canoe Making Among the Molima of Fergusson Island

At dusk on May 12, 1958, as I sat on the beach talking with my adoptive family, four beautifully decorated […]

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Vol. 3 / No. 1

Expedition News – Fall 1960

Shipwrecks The return of Mr. George Bass with details of his summer work on the wrecked ship off Finike in […]

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Vol. 3 / No. 1

By: M.E.L. Mallowan

Sir Leonard Woolley

Professor Mallowan, himself a famous archaeologist, writes that in preparing this appreciation of Sir Leonard Woolley for the obituary columns […]

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Vol. 3 / No. 1

By: Brandon Barringer

Finding A Phoenician Colony Part I: The Search

The hunt started nearly two years ago when the Government of Tunisia asked the University Museum to investigate the possibilities […]

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Men lifting stones out of ditch.

Vol. 3 / No. 1

By: Theresa Howard Carter

Finding a Phoenician Colony Part 2: The Discovery

The very afternoon of the Barringers’ departure two of our three high hopes were shattered. The Lisa Sounding revealed a […]

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Vol. 3 / No. 1

By: David Crownover

A Pair of Twins

This poem translated from the Nigerian language group by Roger Wescott propounds a simple truth: it is a good thing […]

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