Volume 3 / Number 4
1961
On The Cover: El Jib, Jordan, the site of the Biblical Gibeon, from Nebi Samwil as it appeared in an engraving of about two centuries ago.
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: Fred Adelman
The American Kalmyks
After an odyssey of more than three centuries a group of Mongolian Buddhists has come to Philadelphia and nearby New […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: James B. Pritchard
The Bible Reports on Gibeon
A new dimension was added to the archaeological remains at el-Jib by the discovery in 1956 of a handle from […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: Ina Vanstan
Ancient Peruvian Textile Arts: Patchwork and Tie-dye From Pachacamac
Digging up the past includes more than the actual spade work with the essential on-the-spot record keeping and the basic […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: William R. Coe
A Sculpture from Mexico
The New World archaeological collections of the University Museum are comprehensive, often superlative. But we are aware of certain shortcomings. […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
A Visit to a Chittagong Hill Tribe
Much of the initial information gathered on foreign peoples has been derived from the accounts of travelers. Such accounts are […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: David Crownover
A Mask of Turtle Shell
Between the Cape of York Peninsula in Australia and the southeast tip of land along the Papuan Gulf of New […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: Alan R. Schulman
Three Shipwrecked Scarabs
Among the objects recovered last summer by a University Museum expedition from a Bronze Age ship lost off Cape Gelidonya, […]
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