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.

photo of monks

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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image of handle

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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Photo of statue.

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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