Volume 19 / Number 4
1977
On The Cover: Bronze plaque from Giyimli showing a deity with single-horned helmet carrying two quivers, standing on a lion, faced by a worshipper.
Vol. 19 / No. 4
By: Marija Gimbutas
Varna: A Sensationally Rich Cemetery of the Karanovo Civilization, About 4500 B.C.
The cemetery of Varna on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria, excavated in 1973-76, is a prime addition to our […]
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Vol. 19 / No. 4
By: A. Gutkind Bulling
A Late Shang Place of Sacrifice and its Historical Significance
In 1959 the Museum in Nanking made a trial dig in a place called Ch’iu-wan in T’ungshan county, in the […]
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By: James D. Muhly
Editorial
The number of books published in the general field of archaeology seems to increase every year. And every year it […]
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By: Orhan Aytug Tasyurek
The Urartian Bronze Hoard From Giyimli
Urartians, who appear with the name “Uruadri” in the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions after the 13th century B.C., had established a […]
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By: H. Bartlett Wells
Ancient Inventions for Tooling the Surfaces of Objects in Softer Metals
Collectors of ancient Greek copper coins have often been puzzled by central pits that they find in the metal of […]
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By: Elizabeth Lyons
Southeast Asia: The Changing Scene
In January of this year, 1977, I was in Burma trying to recruit a Burmese archaeologist for the new Ford […]
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