Volume 16 / Number 1
1973
On The Cover: See The Bronze Age Boats of North Ferriby, Yorkshire by E. V. Wright.
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Vol. 16 / No. 1
By: E.V. Wright
The Bronze Age Boats of North Ferriby, Yorkshire
Not many of us are lucky enough to be able to conduct “expeditions” from our own doorstep—although I have a […]
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Vol. 16 / No. 1
By: McGuire Gibson
Nippur 1972-1973
Southern Iraq, ancient Sumer and Akkad, is a land of contrasts. Rapid modernization has brought tractors, new crops, and industrial […]
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Vol. 16 / No. 1
By: Maurizio Tosi and Marcello Piperno
Lithic Technology Behind the Ancient Lapis Lazuli Trade
In his concise essay on the Urban Revolution, V. Gordon Childe listed the ten basic attributes of any complex, quantitatively […]
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Vol. 16 / No. 1
By: Alfred Friendly
Modern Science and Ancient Egypt
Two of the most interesting archaeological ventures now being conducted in Egypt illustrate at its most dramatic the application of […]
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Vol. 16 / No. 1
By: Theodore C. Grame
Sounding Statues: The Symbolism of Musical Instruments
What did he doe with her brest-bone? He made him a violl to play thereupon. What did he doe with […]
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