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Volume 42 / Number 1

2000

On The Cover: At the site of Gordion in Turkey, the Midas Mound dominates the landscape. Photo credit: Naomi F. Miller

Vol. 42 / No. 1

Museum Mosaic – Spring 2000: People, Places, Projects

Dr. Bernard Wailes Dr. Bernard Wailes, Curator Emeritus, European Archaeology Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, and Professor Emeritus, Department of […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Dwaune Latimer

Currently on Loan: What in the World

Two masterpieces from the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s African collection are currently on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Peggy Reeves Sanday

Representations of the Land: Anthropology and Aboriginals: Research Notes

In 1947 my father, Frank Reeves, discovered Wolfe Creek Crater, one of the most acclaimed geological features in Australia. Located […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: David Gilman Romano

Roman Surveyors in Corinth, Greece: Science & Archaeology

When the Roman army defeated the allied forces of the Greeks near Corinth in 146 BC, this marked the end […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Patrick E. McGovern

The Funerary Banquet of ‘King Midas’

Fifty years ago, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology began excavations at the ancient Phrygian capital of […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Naomi F. Miller

Plants in the Service of Archaeological Preservation

Several years ago Dr. Ilhan Temizsoy, director of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, expressed concern about erosion on the Midas […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Robert W. Preucel

Living on the Mesa: Hanat Kotyiti, A Post-Revolt Cochiti Community in Northern New Mexico

On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo Indians of the Spanish province of New Mexico, along with their Navajo and Apache allies, […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Michael W. Meister, Abdur Rehman and Farid Khan

Discovery of a New Temple on the Indus

Along the Indus River and on the plateau and escarpments of the Salt Range in upper Pakistan, a sequence of […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Keith DeVries

Gordion

The year 2000 marks both a month and a 50th anniversary for Gordion. In 1900 the German Koerte brothers conducted […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

From the Director

The University of Pennsylvania Museum’s archaeological research at the site of Gordion in central Turkey was launched fifty years ago […]

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Vol. 42 / No. 1

By: Alex Pezzati

Thomas C. Donaldson and the 1890 U.S. Census: From the Archives

The University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives houses thousands of 19th centry photographs documenting people and places all over the world. […]

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