Volume 43 / Number 2

2001

On The Cover: Excavation of a road platform (center) and canal (lower center) in Baures, Bolivia. Photo by Clark L. Erickson.

Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Gerald Margolis

From the Deputy Director for Operations

My introduction to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology coincided with my first trip to Philadelphia twenty […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Lucy Fowler Williams

Seeing Through the Eyes of an Artist: What in the World

Roxanne Wentzell, from Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, is a highly accomplished artist who specializes in sculpting human […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Alex Pezzati

Borneo and Beyond: The Adventures of Furness, Harrison, and Hiller: From the Archives

Between 1895 and 1903, three young men affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania undertook several expeditions to the mysterious world […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Jeffrey M. Mitchem

The Willcox Copper Plate from Florida: Research Notes

My heart raced when I first saw it. I was in the Museum’s collections area with American Section Assistant Keeper […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Elizabeth Hamilton

Bronze from Ban Chiang, Thailand: A View from the Laboratory: Science & Archaeology

An American college student’s famous stumble over a tree root that led to the discovery of the Bronze Age culture […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Andrew L. Goldman

A Roman Town Cemetery at Gordion, Turkey

King Midas. The Phrygians. Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot. These are among the many subjects ordinarily associated with the site […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Adria H. Katz

Decorated Canoe Prow-boards from the Trobriand Islands

The University Museum recently came into possession of three canoe prow-boards (Fig. I) collected in the Trobriand Islands in 1983 […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Deborah I. Olszewski, Shannon P. McPherron, Harold L. Dibble and Marie Soressi

Middle Egypt in Prehistory: A Search for the Origins of Modern Human Behavior and Human Dispersal

The word Egypt for many people evokes images of one of the great civilizations of the ancient world and represents […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Victor H. Mair

The Case of the Wayward Oracle Bone

Late last summer (2000), when I returned to my office from a research trip to China, a message was waiting for me […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

Museum Mosaic – Summer 2001: People, Places, Projects

Highlights from the Museum’s traveling exhibition, ‘THE ROYAL TOMBS OF Ur”—including the world-renowned “Ram-in-the-Thicket,” Lady Pu-Abi’s headdress, and a gold and […]

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Vol. 43 / No. 2

By: Clark L. Erickson

Pre-Columbian Roads of the Amazon

Traditionally, archaeologists have studied “sites.” Sites include monuments, settlements, cities, cemeteries, mounds, and other important places of the past. The […]

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