On the cover: Sand removed from trench beside Roman wreck, using an aluminum air lift, ten inches in diameter, placed on inverted monorails. An extra air tank is attached to the air lift for emergency use.
By: John M. Dimick
The Museum has experienced a grievous loss by the death of Aubrey Trik, leading member of the Technical Staff and an archaeologist respected by all of his associates here and elsewhere in his elected field. Trik came to archaeology through architecture in which he took his degree at the University of Virginia. He joined the […]
By: George F. Bass
In the spring of 1960, seven men and women arrived in Turkey to excavate a Bronze Age shipwreck ninety-five feet deep. Only four had ever dived before. Our only excavating tools were pencils and plastic paper, meter tapes and surveyors’ poles, three underwater cameras, two lifting balloons, a crowbar, and an airlift or suction hose. […]
By: Michael L. Katzev and Susan Womer Katzev
The 1967 survey expedition was made possible through the generous sponsorship of the University Museum; the Cyprus Mines Corporation of Los Angeles, whose offices on Cyprus also provided us with assistance in technical, mechanical, and medical problems; the National Geographic Society; the Dietrich Foundation, Inc. of Philadelphia; and the Houghton-Carpenter Foundation, also of Philadelphia. We […]
By: Francis E. Johnston
As the physical anthropologist seeks to understand the meaning of the striking range of variability which confronts him he is constantly faced with the importance of the processes of physical growth and development. In addition to the obvious fact that the size and shape of the adult are the direct result of his own unique […]
By: Nicholas David
In spite of its central location at the hinge of Africa, between the Congo basin and the West, the desert and the equatorial forests, the archaeology of Cameroon is unknown and virtually unexplored. There is a single exception, the Iron Age culture of the Sao in the extreme north around the southern shores of Lake […]
By: Maude de Schauensee
What is a Bedouin tent but an eminently practical, completely portable house demonstrating all the principal elements of permanent architecture. The tent has supports for the roof at the four corners, at intervals along the sides and down the center, as well as a roof and “curtain” or non-bearing walls. These walls, being literally curtains, […]