Authors:Michael Pietrusewsky, Michele Toomay Dougla,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: remains, skeletal, thai, archaeology, series, monograph, human, volume, prehistoric, chiang, village, site, thailand, northeast, ban
Number of Pages: 493
Published: 2001-11-28
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0924171928
ISBN-13: 9780924171925

The inaugural volume in the Thai Archaeology Monograph Series describes in detail the human skeletal remains from Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand. The skeletal material spans a period from 2100 B.C. to A.D. 200 and includes premetal, Bronze Age, and Iron Age deposits from a series of prehistoric societies.The history of Homo sapiens in Asia has long been a topic of interest among scholars investigating human biology. This study, which is based on one of the larger, comprehensively analyzed skeletal series ever excavated in the region, makes fundamental contributions to understanding human set

Authors:Lucy Fowler Williams, William S. Wierzbowski, Robe
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: objects, everlasting, esteem, culture, art, american, voices, identity, native
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-06-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1931707804
ISBN-13: 9781931707800

The dynamic discourse stimulated by 78 magnificent objects created by Native Americans over the years, now housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the responses of contemporary Native Americans to those objects forms the core of this book. As seen in these vibrant pages, the Museum is not a place of dead objects from the past. It is, rather, a place of people and ideas about human societies and cultures, a place of living, active objects, a place where the present can connect to the past.The volume editors frame important issues and concepts—the n

Author: Lynn E. Roller
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: occasional, publications, babylonian, fund, stamps, dipinti, special, studies, nonverbal, graffiti, gordion
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0934718709
ISBN-13: 9780934718707

These nonverbal marks do not form identifiable words but provide clues to the literacy and daily life at Gordion from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Period. The corpus is presented by type with description, interpretation, and functions of the various categories.

Author: Paula L.W. Sabloff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: khan, genghis, reclaiming, mongolia, modern
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2001-10-09
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 092417191X
ISBN-13: 9780924171918

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 1

Authors:John M. Weeks, Jane A. Hill, Charles W. Golden,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: archaeology, negras, piedras
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2005-02-04
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1931707758
ISBN-13: 9781931707756

Situated on the banks of the Usumacinta River in northwestern Guatemala, Piedras Negras is an important Maya site known for its carved monuments and panels. Between 1931 and 1938 the University Museum conducted research at Piedras Negras, excavating the site core, producing an excellent site map, and documenting architectural developments to an unprecedented standard. Project member Tatiana Proskouriakoff revolutionized Maya historiography with her architectural reconstructions and visionary synthesis of the position and dating of texts and monuments at the site. Innovative excavation methods

Author: V. M. Masson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: monographs, museum, university, depe, altyn
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0934718547
ISBN-13: 9780934718547

The excavations at the Bronze Age site of Altyn-Depe in southwest Soviet Central Asia (Turkmenistan) have revealed an urban community dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The region of Turkmenistan forms a natural crossroads between Eastern Iran and Central Asia, and between Siberia and southern Russia and the Indus Valley. Altyn-Depe was important not only for its development as a cultural center in its own right but as a link between the various Bronze Age cultures of Eurasia.The volume is a translation of the 1981 Soviet publication with the addition of several plates representing the earliest

Authors:John J. Curry, Robert K. Hitchcock, Rebecca Huss-Ash
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: constraints, seasonal, coping
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0924171944
ISBN-13: 9780924171949

Seasonal fluctuations constrain the food production options of nonindustrial peoples. How do people cope with these constraints and what are the consequences of seasonality for human health and well-being? The papers in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives. Included are studies of physiological responses to seasonal scarcity, seasonality research in archaeology, and ethnographic case studies of the role of seasonality in food procurement.MASCA Vol. 5