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Soft Vegetative Roof Capping at Gordion: A Tutorial Video UPDATE
July 30, 2015 This is one in a series of posts about the Gordion ecopark: Although I am primarily an archaeobotanist, I maintain several gardens at the Penn Museum’s excavation project at Gordion,...
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Teens and Trowels, Cultural Heritage Education at Gordion, Turkey
By Naomi F. Miller, Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, and Janelle Sadarananda This post is part of a series reporting on the Gordion Cultural Heritage Education Project, conceptualized and led by Ayşe...
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Teens and Trips: Cultural Heritage Education at Gordion, Turkey
By Janelle Sadarananda, with Naomi F. Miller and Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann This post is part of a series reporting on the Gordion Cultural Heritage Education Project, conceptualized and led by Ayşe...
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Teens and Treks: Cultural Heritage Education at Gordion, Turkey
By Elspeth Dusinberre, Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder This post is part of a series reporting on the Gordion Cultural Heritage Education Project (CHEP), conceptualized and led...
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Teens and Tea: Cultural Heritage Education at Gordion, Turkey
by Janelle Sadarananda, Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, and Naomi F. Miller This is the last post in a series reporting on the Gordion Cultural Heritage Education Project, led by Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Assistant...
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Elder Folks as “Living Museums”
We in the Museum Archives were pleased to host the extended George Rawls family, where they were able to catch up on their grandfather/great-grandfather and his role in the feature film Matto Grosso,...
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Chanthadeth Chanthalangsy has a complicated life history to go with his multi-syllabic name. Having a Lao father and a Cambodian mother, his name reflects a choice of necessity made by his parents...
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Maya and Guatemalan History in Film — Live from the Archives
Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy have been working to document the political situation of Maya people in Guatemala since the 1980s, their best known film is When the Mountains Tremble, a documentary about...
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1966 Film Made in the Navajo Nation Gets Sound 50 years Later
Maxine and Mary Jane Tsosie with their Grandfather Sam Yazzie Thanks to a unique set of circumstances a developing relationship has borne fruit this year for the Museum Archives. A film made in 1966 by...
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Goat to Sweater
co-written by: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann In thinking of ways to preserve the historic landscape around Gordion , Turkey, Ayşe and I thought the best approach was one that would give economic value to the...
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Notes from the Field: On Watching and Waiting – Kathryn Diserens
Tihosuco, Quintana Roo, Mexico May 29, 2017 If I were to characterize my field season up until this point in two words, they would be watching and waiting. Now in my fourth year researching,...
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Approaching Cultural Heritage through Digital Anthropology at the Penn CHC —...
Submitted by: Jacob J. Demree, Summer 2017 Intern This summer, I interned with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (Penn CHC) and others at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and...
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A Super-8 Film from 1974 Finds Its People
Last summer, through a lucky set of connections, including introduction to the Museum’s new South Asia Curator Kathleen (Kathy) Morrison, the Museum was able to reunite the anthropologist Christine...
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Taking the Time for Community Archaeology – Samantha Seyler
This summer, with funds from the Penn Museum, I participated in the Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project in Yucatán, Mexico. This project is a collaborative initiative...
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Looted Landscapes of Upper Egypt
As a graduate student, my research focus has been on the interaction between local communities and cultural heritage in Upper Egypt. One of the things I am keen to understand is the unauthorized...
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