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An introduction to the textile weavings of southwestern Native Americans, the narrative history and color illustrations trace the development of weaving among the Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi, and the Spanish colonists who settled in the Rio Grande. The reproductions of sarapes, blankets, and clothing will delight anyone who appreciates fiber handcrafts.
Excavations at Minturnae, II – Inscriptions, Part I, Republican Magistri
Inscriptions, Part I, Republican Magistri
Häftad, Engelska, 1933
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This volume describes 29 inscriptions discovered built into the foundations of a temple erected in the forum at Minturnae in the early part of the first century A.D. The inscriptions date to the first half of the first century B.C. and represent lists of the annually elected magistri.
Ur Excavations – The Buildings of the Third Dynasty
The Buildings of the Third Dynasty
Inbunden, Engelska, 1974
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This volume deals with all the excavated monuments at Ur belonging to the Third Dynasty, other than the Ziggurat and its surroundings. Chapters are devoted to the mausolea of Dungi and Bur-Sin, the Temenos of Ur, the City Wall, and the Stela of Ur-Nammu.
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A preliminary analysis of this dialect of Athabascan spoken by North American tribes living in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. The Chasta Costa formerly occupied part of the lower Rouge River valley.
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The book examines the building, mosaics, objects, and mosaic inscriptions found at the site of a sixth-century monastery at Beth-Shan. The mosaic floors are described in particular detail, with reference to comparable mosaics elsewhere in Palestine. Translations are given of the inscriptions within the mosaics. Publications of the Palestine Section of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania Vol. IV
Beauty From the Earth – Pueblo Indian Pottery from the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Pueblo Indian Pottery from the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
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The major essay by renowned art historian J. J. Brody traces the development of southwestern pottery from the prehistoric Anasazi through modern Pueblo. A section on pottery technology examines the different types of clays and details the pottery-makings process. Rebecca Allen has contributed an essay on the history of the Museum's southwestern collection, providing insights into the personalities of the collectors and the ways their personal tastes affected the contents of their collections. The catalogue includes a compendium of the 104 objects in the exhibition, each accompanied by a photograph.
Through Time, Across Continents – A Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum
A Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum
Inbunden, Engelska, 1993
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Established in 1887, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the nation. With quotations from letters, journals, and field notes, and numerous archival photographs, this handsome, oversized volume is not only a history of an influential institution but an important contribution to the history of archaeological and anthropological research.
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The collections of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum are among the finest in the United States. This book presents an overview of the new permanent exhibition. The objects are discussed in the context of various aspects of Greek life-athletics, banqueting, education, trade, burial, etc. The many full-color photographs capture the vividness of Greek pottery and the subtle finish of the marble statuary.
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This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook; New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings; and A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings. This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and syntax, suggests new glyph readings, and presents various interpretations.
Richard Berry Seager – Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman
Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
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An examination of the life of Richard Seager is important for two reasons. First, it provides a glimpse of a character of a member of the second generation of researchers to work in Cretan archaeology and, second, Seager and his generation helped form our own preconceptions about the early history of Greece. His underlying thesis, that the Early Minoan society was the first European civilization, thus the foundation of Greek and later Western history, is considered valid today.
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This lavishly illustrated book places glass in its social setting within the Roman household. The volume was written to accompany the traveling exhibition Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change. Through a series of vignettes, the author tells the story of the development of the glass industry in the Roman Empire and the role of glass in the daily routines of the ancient Romans. During the reign of Rome's first emperor, Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14), as several well-established industries such as pottery- and textile-making were being expanded, the craft of glassmaking was adopted from the East, turned into an industry, and adapted to Roman taste. By the mid-first century A.D. glass rivaled pottery in the domestic marketplace. It was used for tableware and storage containers to hold everything from preserved fish to fine perfumes. Glass featured strongly in the Roman daily routine, from the early morning, when maids would apply perfumed lotions to their mistress in preparation for her social rounds, to the late afternoon, when slaves would bring platters of food, bowls of fruit, and jugs of wine-all of glass-to the supper table. And there was a place for glass even in Roman funerary ritual, because it was custom to include all manner of domestic items among the grave furnishings, to add comfort to the afterlife.
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This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time-jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Excavating Voices – Listening to Photographs of Native Americans
Listening to Photographs of Native Americans
Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
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Three authors from diverse backgrounds contribute essays to this volume of photographs of Native Americans from the archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Noted photographer and author Michael Katakis, Professor of Native American literature and American Book Award winner Gerald Vizenor, and Associate Curator of the American collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Robert Preucel have contributed very personal and sensitive essays inspired by the portraits in this volume. Listen closely as you look at these arresting images.
Excavating Voices – Listening to Photographs of Native Americans
Listening to Photographs of Native Americans
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
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Three authors from diverse backgrounds contribute essays to this volume of photographs of Native Americans from the archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Noted photographer and author Michael Katakis, Professor of Native American literature and American Book Award winner Gerald Vizenor, and Associate Curator of the American collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Robert Preucel have contributed very personal and sensitive essays inspired by the portraits in this volume. Listen closely as you look at these arresting images.
Excavating Voices – Listening to Photographs of Native Americans, A Postcard Book
Listening to Photographs of Native Americans, a Postcard Book
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
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Twenty-four evocative images, in postcard format, from the new book Excavating Voices: Listening to Photographs of Native Americans, by such renowned photographers as William Henry Jackson and Edward S. Curtis. Selected from the more than 300,000 images in the archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
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This book is designed to aid the photographer, archaeologist, and others interested in the basic techniques of archaeological photography. The author demonstrates how to set up photographs of archaeological artifacts for documentation and publication and presentation slides along with photographing excavation progress in the filed and site plans. Beginning with the techniques explained here a photographer will be able to solve almost any problem that could come up at an excavation.
Haverford College Collection of Classical Antiqu – The Bequest of Ernest Allen
The Bequest of Ernest Allen
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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In 1989 Ernest Allen bequeathed a fine collection of 25 classical vases and terracottas to Haverford College. The range of objects includes a Mycenean stirrup jar, a selection of black- and red-figure vases, a white-ground lekythos, several fine archaic terracottas, and two Duver plaques with colorful striding griffins. Dr. Ashmead presents an overview of each object and its significance along with a scholarly approach to complete detailed descriptions and comparanda. Each piece is illustrated by black-and-white photographs.
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Written over four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, The City of Rainbows is one of the world's oldest folktales, featuring a wise king, a foolish king, magic deeds, talking animals, and a good witch who triumphs over a wicked sorcerer. This book offers the first modern retelling of the story, together with colour cut-paper illustrations based on actual works of Sumerian mosaic art. The City of Rainbows will delight audiences young and old with its vivid characters and timeless humour.Karen Foster teaches ancient art and archaeology at Yale University.
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Follow the way social attitudes and historical events--among them, slavery and materialism, wars and plagues--influenced how glassworking developed in the Roman world from the mid-first century B.C. to the late sixth century A.D. Woven into this story is the place of glassware in Roman everyday life, from the lady-of-the-house's cosmetic preparations each morning to the setting of table for the evening meal. Included are two special appendices: one considers the technology of ancient glassmaking, the other summarizes ancient opinions on the properties and merits of glass.
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Follow the way social attitudes and historical events--among them, slavery and materialism, wars and plagues--influenced how glassworking developed in the Roman world from the mid-first century B.C. to the late sixth century A.D. Woven into this story is the place of glassware in Roman everyday life, from the lady-of-the-house's cosmetic preparations each morning to the setting of table for the evening meal. Included are two special appendices: one considers the technology of ancient glassmaking, the other summarizes ancient opinions on the properties and merits of glass.
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This is the fourth volume in a series of final publications on the joint American-Greek archaeological excavations at Pseira in northeast Crete. The site is a seaport dating from the end of the Final Neolithic until the Late Minoan period. Pseira IV publishes the architecture and associated finds from 39 locations in Areas B, C, D, and F in the Minoan town of Pseira. The Bronze Age settlement is located on Pseira Island, off the coast of Crete in the Gulf of Mirabello.
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The 17 figurines published here are but a small sample of the objects excavated more than 100 years ago at the Bronze Age necropolis at the site of Ayia Paraskevi in Cyprus. Vassos Karageorghis introduces the volume with an insightful essay on the significance of the site and one of its early excavators, Max Ohnefalsch-Richter. Terence Brennan contributes information on the history of the Museum's acquisition of these pieces based on a 12-year correspondence between Sara Yorke Stevenson, one of the Museum's early founders, and Ohnefalsch-Richter. The volume contains a detailed catalogue of the 17 figurines, including bibliography and comparanda.
Archaeology of Martin's Hundred
Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
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Martin's Hundred was a 20,000-acre tract of land in Tidewater Virginia, one of the most extensive English enterprises in the New World. Settled in 1618, all signs of its early occupation soon disappeared, leaving no trace above ground. More than three centuries later, archaeological explorations uncovered tantalizing evidence of the people who had lived, worked, and died there.
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During the 1928-29 season at Ur, in the Great Death Pit of the Royal Cemetery, C. Leonard Woolley discovered two spectacular musical instruments-a silver Boat-shaped Lyre and a magnificent lyre with the head of a bull made of gold sheet and a lapis lazuli beard. This book chronicles their history, conservation, and reconservation. While little was known about mid-third millennium Mesopotamian archaeology early last century, it was clear that the Sumerians had developed a vigorous trade in luxury goods, with an economy that necessitated a highly structured government whose leaders could command rich and elaborate graves that included a full panoply of musical instruments. In meticulous detail, using both traditional methods and new X-ray and electronic imaging investigative techniques, Maude de Schauensee probes and analyzes the construction of the two lyres held by the University Museum while providing an economic, historical, and sociological context in which to better understand them. She examines the decorative motifs along with the materials and the techniques of the builders of these instruments. The illustrations-10 pieces of line art, 25 photographs, 6 CAT-scans, 5 X-rays, and 24 color plates-supply additional details. This book presents new information and conservation descriptions for the first time. Musicologists, art historians, Near East scholars and archaeologists, and general readers will find this book's new analysis of the instruments of an ancient culture of significant interest.
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Mongolia, a country that evokes romantic curiosity on the part of American readers, has emerged from its former Soviet cocoon. It has achieved independence, democracy, and a twenty-first-century market economy. This book provides factual information about Mongolia and new ways of looking at a historical figure, Genghis Khan, whose ideals of nationhood and democratic principles are in practice now. Modern Mongolia is unique in providing multiple perspectives--Mongolian and American, scholarly and less formal--about the country's developments in a readable style, richly illustrated with 120 full-color contemporary and archival photographs, both scenic and artifactual. The first chapter provides an overview of Mongolian geography and history to the twentieth century and the author's personal experience as a teenager during the 1989-90 democratic revolution. Chapter 2, by a Mongolian historian, recounts the exciting changes from Manchu Dynasty feudal society and autonomous theocracy to Communist nationhood and, finally, full independence as a democratic nation. The third chapter, by a cultural historian, describes the effects of historical changes on the daily life of Mongolian nomads-their clothing, family dwellings (gers), and furnishings. Chapter 4, by an American political anthropologist, shows the connection between modern Mongolians' devotion to democracy and the political ideas of Genghis Khan. Readers of all ages seeking an accessible and picturesque presentation of Mongolian history and society will find Modern Mongolia a fascinating introduction.
From Athens to Gordion – The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young
The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young
Häftad, Engelska, 1980
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The nine papers in this volume, presented by former colleagues and students of the late Rodney S. Young, are representative of Young's archaeological interests: Athens, where he received his archaeological training, and Gordion, where he achieved his greatest successes. This book will prove valuable to students and scholars interested in the interconnections between Greece and Anatolia from the Bronze Age through classical times.
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An easy-to-read guide based on excavations conducted under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The book includes contributions by D. Buitron, D. Christou, M. Loulloupis, A. H. S. Megaw, A. Papgeorhiou, S. Sinos and D. Soren. Also included are drawings maps, full-color photographs, and a bibliography.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum I – The South Italian Pottery, Part I
The South Italian Pottery, Part I
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
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The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum is a highly regarded international series that serves as a vital research aid in the study of Greek pottery. This first fascicule of the CVA from the University Museum includes 101 South Italian vases. Among these are Apulian Red-Figure, Apulian Gnathia, Apulian Black-Glaze, and four classes of native (non-Greek) wares-Daunian, Peucetian, Messapian, and Canosan-dating from the Archaic to early Hellenistic periods.Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, I (U.S.A. 22)University Museum Fascicule I
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, 2 – Cretan, East Greek, and Other Non–Attic Wares; Corinthian Pottery
Cretan, East Greek, and Other Non-Attic Wares; Corinthian Pottery
Inbunden, Engelska, 1995
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This second University Museum CVA incorporates non-Attic fine wares and Corinthian pottery. The fine wares are from the British excavations at Naucratic, Tell Defeneh, and Al Mina, plus a few pieces from a Museum expedition to Memphis; and several intact purchased vases Included are examples of Rhodian, Chian, Ionian, Fikellura, Clazomenian, Laconian, Chalcidian, Caeretan, and Lydian. The 62 Corinthian was collected mainly as gifts over the last 100 years.
World of Philip and Alexander – A Symposium on Greek Life and Times
A Symposium on Greek Life and Times
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
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The magnetism of the man known as Alexander the Great, along with that of his father, Philip of Macedon, is almost tangible, felt by people in all times since that brilliant young conqueror moved through the world more than two thousand years ago. Scholars whose fields touch that power continue to be intrigued by these two men and the ways in which their actions altered or contributed significantly to Western culture. Contributors discuss the fourth century B.C. from the point of view of the historical significance of Philip (A. J. Graham and A. J. N. W. Prag), the foundations of Alexander's empire in Egypt (Murray C. McClellan), the ancient Olympic games (David Gilman Romano), religion (Irene Bald Romano), and Alexander's last great battle in India (Gregory L. Possehl).