Penn Museum Blogs: How Do Archeologists and Anthropologists See the World?
What does it mean to look at the world through an anthropologist's perspective? Researchers from five different projects documented their experiences in the field to help us understand how they interact with their environment and study cultural heritage and history-in-the-making.
Please note: The comments on these blogs are solely the opinions and insights of the blogger, and public responses, and do not represent an endorsement or necessarily reflect the opinions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Utsav Schurmans, recently awarded a PhD in Anthropology from Penn, blogs about Smugglers' Cave, an excavation site on the coast of Morocco that's best known for its human remains dating between 60 to 100,000 years ago, when modern humans lived exclusively in Africa.
Find out what actually goes on at a dig! Follow the progress of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project as Dr. David Romano and his team of researchers work at the Sanctuary of Zeus from June 26 – August 7, 2007. One of the most famous Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries of ancient Greece, located only 17 miles from its more well-known neighbor at Olympia, Mt. Lykaion claims a spectacular mountain-top location. Find out what the researchers do in the trenches as they work to uncover, conserve, document, illustrate and register objects.
Earthquake Disaster in Indonesia
Noel B. Salazar, a fourth year graduate student and PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, was working on his dissertation research in Yogyakarta, Indonesia when a devastating earthquake shook the region on May 27, 2006 and changed the course of his research. Caught up in relief efforts, he realized that Americans have received little information about this unfolding tragedy. He offers his personal and anthropological perspectives, as events unfold in the region.to visit the blog
Tiwanaku: Revealing Ancient Bolivia
In this web log, Alexei Vranich, Research Associate at Penn Museum directs a research project to uncover the secrets of Tiwanaku, a prehistoric city on Lake Titicaca along the border between Bolivia and Peru. Three researchers share their field notes about the impressive monumental remains and their investigations into the everyday lives of the site's inhabitants. to visit the blog
Middle Mekong Archaeology Project
In March 2005, this project began its first exploratory survey along three Mekong River tributaries in Luang Prabang Province, Laos.
Co-Director Dr. Joyce C. White, Senior Research Scientist at Penn Museum, reported from the field during the month-long survey project. to visit the blog
The Real Story of the Olympic Games
Dr. David Romano attended 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with his family, and shared his thoughts in an online journal, looking at the festivities through the lens of an anthropologist who has spent much of his career researching the ancient Olympics. to visit the blog
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