Volume 47 / Number 2
2005
On The Cover: Gaanaxteidi guests from Klukwan, Dec. 23, 1904. Photo credit: Case & Draper, courtesy of the Alaska State Library, Case & Draper Photograph Collection, PCA 39-401.
Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Greg Borgstede, Beebe Bahrami and Vanessa Smith
The Maya, Pashtun, and Egypt: Book News & Reviews
The Maya (seventh edition) The Maya (seventh edition) by Michael D. Coe (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005). 272 pp., 186 illus, […]
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Museum Mosaic – Summer 2005: People, Places, Projects
Travel the Trade Routes / Find Trade Goods to “Treasure” Treasures . . . From the Silk Road to the Santa Fe […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Xiuqin Zhou
Excavations at Zhaoling, Shaanxi, China: More Light on the Museum’s Chinese Horse Reliefs: Field Experience
In 2003 the Beilin Museum in Xi’an, China, informed the Penn Museum that an excavation was taking place at the […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: William B. Hafford
Hanging in the Balance: Precision Weighing in Antiquity: Research Notes
Have you ever asked yourself, “Just how accurate was ancient weighing? Probably not, but that is what I ask myself […]
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By: Michael D. Danti
Returning to Iran: Research Notes
The Penn Museum has had a long and auspicious history of involvement in the archaeology of Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution in […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Robert W. Preucel and Lucy Fowler Williams
The Centennial Potlatch
On June 2004, Harold Jacobs, the cultural resource specialist of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Robert W. Preucel
Sea Monster Hat Repatriation
The Sea Monster hat is a conical wooden hat with the sea monster crest (Gunakadeit), carved by Augustus Bean. The […]
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By: Alexei Vranich, Paul Harmon and Chris Knutson
Reed Boats and Experimental Archaeology on Lake Titicaca
As much as archaeologists grumble about the scientific merit of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki journey from Peru to Polynesia, one […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Meet the Curators – Josef Wegner: Associate Curator, Egyptian Section
The Museum’s Josef Wegner, Associate Curator in the Egyptian Section, has been interested in Egyptology since childhood. Growing up in […]
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By: Mark Aldenderfer and Holley Moyes
In the Valley of the Eagle: Zhang-Zhung, Kyunglung, and the Pre-Buddhist Sites of Far Western Tibet
At the beginning of the 6th century AD, the rulers of the Yarlung clan on the central Tibetan plateau met […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Jean Adelman
Frederica De Laguna: Honorary Curator, American Section
On October 6, 2004, Frederica De Laguna, Honorary Curator in the Museum’s American Section and renowned anthropologist of Alaska’s native […]
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By: James R. Mathieu
From the Editor – Summer 2005
Welcome to Expeditions summer issue! In the following pages you will read about the Museum’s role in the Centennial Potlatch—a […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Richard M. Leventhal
The University and the Museum: From the Director
The formal name, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, clearly connects our museum to the larger Penn […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Alex Pezzati
The Scholar and the Impostor: From the Archives
“Real South African at U. of P. Museum” Thus was a new “exhibit” at the Museum announced on January 28, […]
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