Volume 55 / Number 2
2013
Spotlight On: Virtual Ur
On The Cover: On the Cover: This hair wreath (Museum object #B17710) worn by Queen Puabi is just one of many artifacts that will be available online through the Ur digitization project. Photo by Anna Marie Kellen.
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Museum Mosaic – Winter 2013
Recent Acquisitions The Penn Museum recently acquired a small-scale reproduction of a Roman barge, which replicates one of Caligula’s boats […]
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By: Richard Hodges
Rodney Young, his noblesse oblige, and the OSS in Greece
Classical Spies: America n Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece by Susan Heuck Allen (Ann Arbor: University […]
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By: W. B. Hafford
Archaeology in the Digital Age: Creating an Online Research Tool for the Ancient City of Ur
One of the first true cities in the world and probably the site described in the Bible as the home […]
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By: Thomas J. Hardy
An Introduction to the Inca Empire
The Incas by Craig Morris and Adriana von Hagan (New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2012). 256 pp., 189 illustrations […]
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By: Paul Mitchell
Nature or Nurture?
Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind by Jesse Prinz (New York: Norton, 2012). 416 pp., […]
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Postscript – November 2013
Matto Grosso’s path to obscurity may have been set by several factors: it was not feature length, it was not […]
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By: Tukufu Zuberi
Art During Wartime: Recruitment of Black Soldiers from the U.S. Civil War through African Independence Movements
Military posters are designed to be highly visible in public spaces. They become iconic images for those who remember wars […]
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By: Kate R. Pourshariati
Expedition to the Amazon: The First Documentary Film with Sound
For almost 80 years, the 49-minute film Matto Grosso: The Great Brazilian Wilderness lay in the Penn Museum Archives, waiting […]
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Around the World
Around the World Every year, the Penn Museum’s curators and staff conduct research around the world. Read on for a […]
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By: Gareth Darbyshire and Gabriel H. Pizzorno
Taming the Beast: The Digital Gordion Mapping Project
Gordion, in central Turkey, is the largest and longest-running of the Penn Museum’s many excavation projects. An ancient site of […]
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By: Julian Siggers
Telling the Human Story: From the Director
It has now been a year since I took up the post of Williams Director here at the Penn Museum—a […]
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By: Jane Hickman
From the Editor – A New Expedition
As you read through this issue of Expedition, you will see many changes in design as well as in content. […]
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By: Beebe Bahrami
Past/Present – Overwhelmed by Time
A big part of the magic of visiting a museum or archaeological site is the feeling of time shifting, of […]
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In the Galleries – Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster
Propaganda has long been used to mobilize people in times of war. Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the […]
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By: Gareth Darbyshire and Alessandro Pezzati
From the Archives – The Missing Piece
Organizing collections of records to make them available for research is not straightforward. The ease or difficulty in sorting through […]
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By: Ellen E. Bell
Portrait – Remembering Robert J. Sharer (1940-2012)
Dr. Robert J. Sharer was the Sally and Alvin Shoemaker Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and […]
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