MUSEUMS

Reports from the Field
December 8, 2009
Hear two Penn Museum researchers offer updates on their latest work! Simon Martin, Associate Curator, American Section, and one of the foremost experts on Maya writing and history, summarizes his work on hieroglyphs of Calakmul, Mexico, the largest city in Classic Maya civilization, and provides details on some of the new finds that are shedding light on the social, cultural and political development there. Dr. Lauren Ristvet, Dyson Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, talks about Penn Museum’s excavations in Azerbaijan (the first American excavations in that country) at the ancient fortress site of Oglanqala, inhabited between 1200 and 200 BCE. Through excavation and survey work, the team is revealing a complex landscape of fortresses, cemeteries and nomadic settlements that are helping to illustrate what it meant to be on the edge of several empires.
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)
3260 South Street
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Tickets: Lecture admission: pay-what-you-like. Reception admission: $35 ($25 Museum members)
Info Phone: 215/898-4890
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December 8, 2009Times:
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