By: Suzanne Richard
The site of Khirbet Iskander lies in central Jordan on the Plateau, just north of the famed biblical Plains of Moab (Fig. 2). Fifty-six kilometers to the north is the capital city of Amman’ Like a majority of Early Bronze (EB) IV settlement sites in ancient Trans-jordan, it is located near a perennial stream, the […]
Sumerian Dictionary Project Director: Dr. Ake W. Sjöberg (Babylonian Section, University Museum) Sponsors: University Museum, National Endowment for the Humanities, Phoebe T. Haas Trust The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project Bas initiated in 1976. The aim of the Project is to produce the first comprehensive dictionary of the world’s first written language, Sumerian. This Dictionay will […]
By: Elisabeth Tooker
In The University Museum are a number of Iroquois manufactures collected at various times in various places in New York State and Canada. There are similar collections, some larger, some smaller, in other museums. Some objects obtained from Indians in the 17th and 18th centuries have found their way into European museums. But the most […]
By: Michael Hitchcock
The varied terrain of the Island of Sumbawa is best appreciated from the air. During the wet monsoon one only catches a glimpse of it when the plane descends from the thick cloud cover to land near one of the three major towns, engendering an impression of lush rice fields separated by miles of emptiness—a […]
By: Genevieve Fisher
It was the labour of four long days to cut entirely through the barrow, but we who were not absolutely diggers contrived to pass our time to the full satisfaction of all the party. A plentiful supply of provisions had been procured for pic nicking on the bill, and we remained by the barrow all day. […]
By: Michael Parrington and Janet Wideman
Archaeologists have traditionally been interested in the excavation of cemeteries, an interest spurred by the rich grave goods found in many burial sites. Grave goods represent an expression of the feelings of the living at the time of death, and also the burial customs prevalent in a particular society. Interpretation of the significance of burial […]
By: Vimala Begley
As the Periplus of the Erythracau Sea and other Classical accounts tell us, there was a thriving sea trade between the ports of the Red Sea and south India during the 1st century A. D. Unfortunately, we know very little about when this trade first began or who the earlier traders might have been, since […]
By: Graeme Henderson and Ian Crawford
The authors of this article had questions to ask about Indonesian boats and boatbuilding Ian Crawford was interested in early Indonesian contact with Australia, and in traditional Indonesian craft. Graeme Henderson was following the development of the Australian pearling lugger as a boatbuilding form and wanted to know about any Indonesian influence on design developments in […]