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Out of Sorts" offers a series of case studies testing modern theories and assumptions of print culture against particular cases involving typography and typographical representation. Topics covered range from early printed marginalia to electronic editions.

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.Also of interest--Excavating VoicesListening to Photographs of Native AmericansEdited by Michael Katakis1998 / 86 pages / 8 1/2 x 11...

Archaeological interpretations are built on many types of evidence. While no one method or analysis can fully reveal an extinct economic system, the papers in this volume are each focused on a single category of data to elucidate different aspects of ancient economy and settlement: settlement pattern (Khurban plains), trace elements in sealing clays (Tepe Gawra), seeds and charcoal (Tepe Hissar, Malyan, Kurban Hoyuk), economic texts (Nippur).M...

The University Museum excavated at Beth Shan from 1921-1934, when stratigraphical methods were first being developed. For this study the two Late Bronze levels (VII and VIII) have been reevaluated by the careful analysis of field records, photographs, and drawings along with the restudy of all artifacts housed in The University Museum and a selection of objects in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem. The structures of these levels have paralle...

Lions and rams and bulls! Oh, my! See them in all their golden splendor. This book contains 20 full-color postcards featuring the animals that decorated the treasures of Ur--the gold and lapis lazuli bull-head from the Great Lyre, the gold and lapis lazuli statuette of the "Ram in the Thicket, " intricately carved animals and human-headed beasts from the inlaid plaques and engraved seal stones, delicate molded bulls and stags from pendants and...

This volume provides us with the first detailed view of the functioning of the Middle Elamite Empire outside Susiana. The excavation encompassed a segment of a larger building that must have served as a focus for the servants of the Elamite state in Anshan. Even though the function of the excavated area changed over time--from monumental building (level IV), to ceramic production area (level IIIB), to domestic structure (level IIIA)--the stron...

This book details 18 years of research and conservation work on the wooden furniture and small objects excavated at the site of Gordion, Turkey, by the University of Pennsylvania Museum between 1950 and 1973, uncovering what is now considered to be the most important collection of well-preserved wooden objects surviving from the ancient Near East. Forty-seven pieces of fine furniture and more than 70 wooden sculptures and household objects wer...

The study of technology and changes in technical processes can be as revealing of culture and culture change as the study of stylistic changes in artifacts. This study focuses on the remains of over 400 years of copper-base metal artifacts and metalworking from excavations of a mint foundry/workshop at the Late Iron Age and Roman site of the Titelberg, Luxembourg. Using metallographic and metallurgical analysis, the author demonstrates the ear...

The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is their use of a variety of different kinds of evidence--including archaeological, faunal, historical, ethnographic, artistic, and folkloric data--in the reconstruction of animal symbolism.MASCA Vol. 12

David R. Harris is Emeritus Professor of Human Environment at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. His many publications include The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia and (with Gordon Hillman) Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation.

Naomi F. Miller is an archaeobotanist and member of the Near East Section at the Penn Museum. She is author of Drawing on the Past: An Archaeologist's Sketchbook, editor of Economy and Settlement in the Near East: Analyses of Ancient Sites and Materials, and coeditor (with Kathryn Gleason) of The Archaeology of Garden and Field, all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Published jointly with the Committee on African Affairs under the editorship of H. A. Wieschhoff, these remaining volumes from the series Africa Handbooks describe the conditions and significant issues facing the continent during and immediately following World War II.Africa Handbooks 3

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.Ur Excavations: Archaeology VI

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.

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.

An innovative and important book."--Speculum"This valuable book . . . poses in a most interesting form the question of the relationship generally between literary theory and literary practice."--Times Higher Education Supplement"Stimulating and learned. . . . This book should serve as a milestone in medieval literary theory."--Yearbook of English Studies"No professional medievalist with a serious interest in literature can afford to leave this...

Although Quirigua and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning ...

Over millions of years humans developed an increasingly varied set of relationships with the plants and animals in their environment. By the European Mesolithic and the Near Eastern Epipaleolithic the efficient exploitation of wild food resources had produced a social and economic base that was ripe for the introduction of domesticates. It is not the intent of this volume to again discuss animal and plant domestication but, rather, to focus on...

Plastic" vases, or small vases molded in the shape of animals, mythological creatures, or human busts and body parts, dating from the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. have been found throughout the Mediterranean. Scholars assumed that these held ancient perfumes. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia used gas chromatography linked with mass spectrometry to analyze 24 vases to determine their original contents. This publication pro...

The author discusses the information that can be obtained, particularly concerning past economy and ecology, from the study of archaeological bird remains. This handbook is useful for identification of eggshell from a variety of wild and domestic birds.MASCA Vol. 10 Supplement