Volume 51 / Number 3
2009
Special Edition: Focus on Butrint
On The Cover: Aerial view of Butrint, looking down the Vivari Channel to the Straits of Corfu and Corfu beyond. Photo Credit: Butrint Foundation/Alket Islami
Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Margaret R. Spencer
Meet the Associate Deputy Director – Loa P. Traxler: Andrew W. Mellon Associate Deputy Director
In June 2009, Loa P. Traxler was named the Andrew W. Mellon Associate Deputy Director of the University of Pennsylvania […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: James G. Schryver
Unraveling Butrint: Putting Together a City’s History by Studying Its Walls
Puzzles and Pieces “You like a good puzzle, don’t you?” These were the words with which Richard Hodges, the Scientific […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Alessandro Pezzati and Darien Sutton
The Present Meets the Past: Edith and Sasha Siemel: From the Archives
People we had known only from old photographs and letters suddenly came to life with Edith Siemel’s visit to the […]
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Museum Mosaic – Winter 2009: People, Places, Projects
Penn Museum Hosts Undergraduate Research Fellows On August 3, 2009, the Museum hosted a tour and reception for Penn’s Center […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges
Nikita Khrushchev’s Visit to Butrint: May 1959
Enver Hoxha’s post-war communist regime in Albania had close ties with Stalin’s Soviet Union. Even young Albanian archaeologists were trained […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges and Nevila Molla
Decoding Butrint’s Fortifications: Excavations and Surveys, 2005-2009
The painter Edward Lear, visiting Butrint in 1857, was evidently fascinated by its powerful fortifications. Unlike previous visitors, drawn here […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Jane Hickman
From the Editor – Winter 2009
The Winter issue of Expedition begins with a special section on Butrint, an archaeological site and national park located on […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Teagan Schweitzer
The Turtles of Philadelphia’s Culinary Past: An Historical and Zooarchaeological Approach to the Study of Turtle-based Foods in the City of Brotherly Love ca. 1750 –1850
“Oh! That turtle soup! How it sticks to the ribs and how it leaves a taste in the mouth that […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: James G. Schryver
Ugolini’s Presentation of Butrint to the Italian Public: Exploration, Poetics, and Politics
For those interested in past civilizations, archaeological sites have a special value based on the physical connection that they provide […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges
Creating a Sustainable Butrint: From the Director
Archaeologists make places. Butrint was largely unknown when Luigi Maria Ugolini set out, in 1928, to discover if it really […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Kathleen Ryan, Williams Fitts, Mulu Muia, Nina Johnson and Hannah Lau
Tracking East African Cattle Herders from Prehistory to the Present
The herding of domesticated animals permits food production to be extended into many areas of the world too arid for […]
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