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Appendix 1, a text document, presents the structure of the combined artifact and provenience databases of 19 variables. Note that lot number and special deposit number are common to both the artifact and provenience databases.

Appendix 10 is an incomplete draft of the reconstruction of Tikal caches excavated prior to 1956. It includes an inventory of all monuments known to have undergone excavation before 1956 and describes associated caches. Many bibliographic entries do not appear in the References section of this Report. Moholy-Nagy has added text in brackets. Present-day usage substitutes the term “chert” for Coe’s “flint” and “prismatic blade” for A. V. Kidder’s “flake-blade.”

Appendix 11 is an incomplete draft of the typology and description of flint and obsidian eccentrics and incised obsidians. Objects included here are either representational or symbolic, figural, and non-figural, and are organized in this typology in three categories: Eccentric Flints, Eccentric Obsidians, and Incised Obsidians. Many bibliographic entries do not appear in the References section of this Report. Moholy-Nagy has added the texts in brackets. Present-day usage has substituted the...

Appendix 12 is an incomplete draft of the typology and description of shell Charlie Chaplin figurines. These are anthropomorphic, small, usually of exteriorly worked Spondylus shell, with incising, notching, grooving and drilling the technical repertory. However, many are plain, that is, the human form is silhouetted. A total of 538 shell figurines exist in the Tikal collection. With very few exceptions (notably Burial 10) these occur in cached offerings. Shell figurines are an outstanding...

Appendix 14, presents all of the 246 figures referred to in TR. 27A. The figures listed in italics on the Figure list in the front matter of this volume are also printed in it, while the others appear only on the CD-ROM.

Appendix 2, a text document, provides the codes used for the artifact and provenience database variables.

Appendix 6, PDF versions of excel spreadsheets, consists of tables generated from Appendix 5, which summarize artifact traits, proveniences, and dates for artifact types and varieties. These tables should be regarded as a sample of the informative associations that the reader can make. Codes for this database can be located in Appendices 1 (tDAR #: 377506) and 2 (tDAR #: 377507).

Appendix 7, Excel spreadsheets and text documents generated from Excel spreadsheets, consists of charts summarizing counts of reported artifacts and objects by material category, special deposit typologies, proveniences, and dates, and species identifications of shells, other marine invertebrates, and fishes.

Appendix 8, a text document, gives the figure references for artifacts from special deposits.

Appendix 9, a text documents, lists the Miscellaneous Text numbers, artifact types, catalogue numbers, and figure references of texts found on artifacts other than pottery vessels. Texts on pottery vessels from special deposits are published in TR. 25A.

TR27A reports upon goods used as markers of social status and goods used in ritual. It describes the splendid ornaments and insignia of jade, shell, pearls, and inscribed bone shown in representations on monuments and pottery vessels and recovered from the burials of Tikal's elites. Each artifact is described in the text, tabulated, and richly illustrated with drawings and photographs. An accompanying CD-ROM includes updated databases for all recovered objects, enabling the reader to discover...

Appendix A - a text document - presents the structure of the combined artifact and provenience databases, which comprises 17 variables. The artifact database includes type and variety, catalogue number, number of items included, material category, material or species, condition, comment or modification, and figure reference. The provenience database includes recovery context, date, structure group type, structure group number, structure type, structure number, and half-kilometer...

Appendix B - a text document - provides the codes used for the artifact and provenience database variables.

Appendix G - the 217 tables generated from Appendix F - summarize condition, material, zone, structure group type, recovery context, and date for each artifact or object type. These tables should be regarded as a sample of the informative associations that the reader can make.

Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a major body of primary data. The artifacts, represented by such raw materials as chert and shell are classified by type, number, condition, possible ancient use, form, material, size, and such secondary modifications as decoration...

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...

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.1 Individual Records of Cranial Measurements, Indices, and Capacities in Adults.

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.10 Individual Records of Vertebral Non-metric Variation in Adults and Adolescents

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.11 Individual Records of Osteoarthritis in the Adolescent and Adult Skull and Appendicular Skeletons from Ban Chiang

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.12 Individual Records of Osteoarthritis and Osteophytosis in Adult Vertebral Columns

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.2 Individual Records of Mandibular Measurements and Indices in Adults.

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.3 Individual Records of Cranial Non-metric Variation in Adolescents and Adults.

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.4 Individual Records of Measurements of Permanent Dentitions in Adolescents and Adults.

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.5a Individual Records of Non-metric Observations in Permanent Dentitions in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.5b Individual Records of Pathological Conditions in Permanent Dentitions in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.6 Individual Records of Non-metric Observations in Deciduous Dentitions in Children.

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.7 Individual Records of Hypoplasias and Carious Lesions in Permanent Dentitions in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.8 Individual Records of Infracranial Measurements in Adults from Ban Chiang

This document is an explanation of abbreviations and codes for Database E.9 Individual Records of Infracranial Non-metric Variation in Adults and Adolescents

The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer Asia. Located in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey) near the confluence of the Porsuk and Sakarya rivers, Gordion also lies on historic trade routes between east and west as well as north to the Black Sea. Favorably situated for long-distance trade, Gordion's setting is marginal for agricultural cultivation but well...

Photographs accompanying Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey. All photographs by Naomi F. Miller except where noted.

Additional Figures and Plates from Dún Ailinne: Excavations at an Irish Royal Site, 1968-1975.

The site of Dún Ailinne is one of four major ritual sites from the Irish Iron Age, each said to form the center of a political kingdom and thus described as "royal." Excavation has produced artifacts ranging from the Neolithic (about 5,000 years ago) through the later Iron Age (fourth century CE), when the site was the focus of repeated rituals, probably related to the creation and maintenance of political hegemony. A series of timber structures were built and replaced as each group of leaders...

This CD is intended to provide a readily available Archive of images useful for the study of Etruscan mythology. The database includes all illustrations that show identifiable figures of Etruscan mythology from my book, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend.

This volume is the first comprehensive account of Etruscan mythology, an elusive and difficult subject because no Etruscan textual narratives have survived from antiquity. In order to interpret the myths and make the Etruscans come alive for us today, Nancy Thomson de Grummond acts as an archaeological detective piecing together evidence from representations in art, from archaeological sites, and from indirect accounts of Etruscan lore in Greek and Roman texts. She starts with the purely...

Eight (8) color plates from Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend by Nancy Thomson de Grummond.

The Penn Museum's first archaeological expedition to Iran took place in 1931, when Erich F. Schmidt excavated the Bronze Age site of Tepe Hissar near the town of Damghan and the monumental buildings of the pre-Islamic Sasanian Palace. In this part of his adventurous and courageous life Schmidt, then a young German WWI veteran who had received his Ph.D. degree under Franz Boas at Columbia University, documented the project with nearly 2,600 culturally significant photos—many under far from...

This cd-rom includes additional images to those printed in the book—from the Archives of the University Museum, to reveal a more expansive panorama of the people and places Schmidt and his teams visited, and images (Figures 81-88) kindly shared by Erika Schmidt, Erich Schmidt’s daughter, to provide a glimpse of Schmidt in his family surroundings during his post-field era. The captions give general information about the photographs, taken directly from the card files in the Museum’s Archives,...

"An exemplary piece of scholarship which places the author at the forefront of ancient sigillography and sphragistics. . . . Of interest to anyone with a serious interest in the history of the city of 'the Knot' and 'the Golden Touch'"—Michael Vickers, Professor of Archaeology, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The original publication of the 114 seals and seal impressions excavated from Gordion in Turkey, this book is the first diachronic monograph on the ongoing excavations at Gordion and provides...

Additional figures and images accompanying Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society, by Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre.

With its small population and low GDP, Mongolia is frequently deemed "unique" or tacked onto various area studies programs: Inner Asia, Central Asia, Northeast Asia, or Eurasia. This volume is a response to the concern that countries such as Mongolia are marginalized when academia and international diplomacy reconfigure area studies borders in the postsocialist era. Would marginalized countries such as Mongolia benefit from a reconfiguration of area studies programs or even from another way...

Color plates and additional figures from Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present.

Supplementary CD-ROM that accompanies The Maya Vase Conservation Project. This document includes 280 full-color images, and illustrates each of the vessels with color photographs of their initial condition, treatment, and final appearance. Detailed information on each vessel's provenience, dimensions, and iconography is also found on this CD

Museum goers are always fascinated by behind-the-schemes glimpses of the way museum professionals prepare artifacts and works of art for exhibit and study. In this richly illustrated, step-by-step presentation, Grant describes the problems of conserving and preserving the only provenienced collection of a group of 19 important Maya vases excavated early in the twentieth century in Chama, Guatemala, by Robert Burkitt, an early investigator for the University Museum. This polychrome pottery was...

This document accompanies Maude de Schauensee's Peoples and Crafts in Period IVB at Hasanlu, Iran, and includes 88 pages of images with chapters documenting furniture (color), textiles (color), glass (color and black and white), archaeometallurgy (color), and blade-type weaponry (color and black and white).

Siberia's Lake Baikal region is an archaeologically unique and emerging area of hunter-gatherer research, offering insights into the complexity, variability, and dynamics of long-term culture change. The exceptional quality of archaeological materials recovered there facilitates interdisciplinary studies whose relevance extends far beyond the region. The Baikal Archaeology Project—one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted in the history of subarctic archaeology—is conducted by an...

This DVD accompanies Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Life Ways, edited by Andrzej W. Weber, M. Anne Katzenberg, and Theodore G. Schurr. It includes supplements to chapters 1, 2, and 4.

Appendices accompanying Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies. Appendix 1: Vrokastro Survey Methodology: Transects and Site Recording; Appendix 2: Catalogue of Chipped and Ground Stone Implements; Appendix 3: Agricultural and Demographic Statistics; Appendix 4; The Agricultural Year in the Vrokastro Survey Area; Appendix 5: Texts from the Phaneromeni Monastery; and Appendix 6: The Holocene Evolution of the Istron...

Relevant Epigraphical Data for the Region Istron

Data gathered through systematic survey detail the settlement history of the Vrokastro region from the Final Neolithic period through the early part of the twentieth century. Each period is introduced by an environmental pattern for the settlement, with a brief summary of project methodology and goals, a description of the regional topography and botany, and a synopsis of the regional topography and hydrology. The penultimate chapter and conclusions present a summary of the regional settlement...

Tables from Chapter 11 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 12 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 13 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 14 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 2 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 3 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 4 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 5 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 6 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 7 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 8 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

Tables from Chapter 9 of Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Volume 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies.

The Vrokastro website includes information about the project, the Vrokastro region, the Vrokastro reports, and additional resources. This version of the Vrokastro website is current as of April 15, 2004. For updates, connect to the Vrokastro website online at www.museum.upenn.edu/vrokastro.

The pottery catalogue is divided into four main units: Neolithic-Geometric (Barbara J. Hayden and Jennifer Moody); Orientalizing-Hellenistic (Barbara J. Hayden and Martha Risser); Early Roman-Late Roamn/Early Byzantine (George Harrison); and Late Byzantine through Turkish-Modern (Margrete Hahn). Each pottery specialist was assigned a chronological range, but these periods overlap between authors, especially for LM IIIC-Geometric (Hayden and Risser) and Late Roman to Byzantine (Harrison and...

Volume 3 presents the supplementary materials that support the settlement history of the Vrokastro region, derived from intensive and systematic survey. The book presents brief summaries of regional pottery of the Bronze Age, Roman, and medieval to modern periods (with tables). Illustrations include maps, plans, pottery profiles, and photographs of sites, features, and pottery. The CD-ROM pottery catalogue is divided into four main units: Neolithic-Geometric, Orientalizing-Hellenistic, Early...

The format of each entry within the site catalogue is presented at the beginning of this catalogue, and it is organized alphabetically. The catalogue is presented in depth for two reasons: many of these sites have been damaged or destroyed by recent development, thus this publication will remain their only record. Although different aspects of many of these multi-period sites are mentioned throughout the settlement history chapters of volume 2 of the Vrokastro Reports, this catalogue contains...

In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies. The body of the book discusses the history of Santa Cruz Island society since the first Europeans came to the area in 1595, the cultural meanings of its most conspicuous features, and descriptions of the...

70 photographs of village life on the Santa Cruz Islands from CD that accompanies Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and its Social and Ritual Contexts.

This CD-ROM accompanies Settlement Archaeology at Quiriguá, Guatemala by Wendy Ashmore. Included here are additional plates, tables and figures from Parts 1 and 2. Additionally, the CD-ROm includes Part 3: Quiriguá Wider Periphery. Part 3 presents descriptive summaries for each of the Quiriguá Wider Periphery sites encountered by the Site Periphery Program.

This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 square kilometers immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in the wider periphery. The work situates Quiriguá...

A comprehensive series of reconstructed views rendered in colors approximating the original finishes of polished plaster and paint, with 42 different stages of development in three-dimensional form, show what the Acropolis looked like at various times from ca. 330 BCE to CE 600. On an accompanying CD-ROM 112 color plates include constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a...

The material included here is from a companion CD-ROM included with Additions and Alterations: A Commentary on the Architecture of the North Acropolis, Tikal, Guatemala, Tikal Report 34A, by H. Stanley Loten. 112 color plates include constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a rationale for the sequences illustrated and an interpretation of ancient Maya intentions in...

Database Structure: a text document that presents the variables used for the artifact and provenience databases

Codes for Database Variables: a text document

The pre-Columbian city we call Tikal was abandoned by its Maya residents during the tenth century A.D. and succumbed to the Guatemalan rain forest. It was not until 1848 that it was brought to the attention of the outside world. For the next century Tikal, remote and isolated, received a surprisingly large number of visitors. Public officials, explorers, academics, military personnel, settlers, petroleum engineers, chicle gatherers, and archaeologists came and went, sometimes leaving behind...