Author: Alessandro Pezzati

Publisher/Date: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania 2002, stated first edition

ISBN: 9781931707411

Format/Condition: New hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition, 100 pages, illustrated with black and white photos.

Description: In 64 black and white plates, with a reading list, maps, and two essays, this book offers a brief but intriguing survey of the rich collection of original documentation from the expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Here are excavations in Iraq and natives of Borneo and Hokkaido, Japan, from the turn of the last century; excavations in Egypt and Israel in the 1910s and 20s; rural denizens of Guatemala, Ontario, Sierra Leone, and Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1930s; and expeditions to Iran, Afghanistan, and a Turkish shipwreck in the 1960s.