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Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia
R. Ramesh adjusts measuring tape at archaeological site.

R. Ramesh, assisting superintending archaeologist at the Archaeological Survey of India, adjusted a measuring tape at an archaeological site in India before he and Penn's Kathleen Morrison took samples for paleoenvironmental analysis from a Neolithic (3000-1200 BCE) deposit. 

(Image: Courtesy of Kathleen Morrison)

Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia

An international group of scholars, including archaeologists from the School of Arts & Sciences, synthesized archaeological evidence in South Asia from 12,000 and 6,000 years ago.
Archaeological science, hands on
Two students looking at slides under a microscope in a lab.

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Archaeological science, hands on

The Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, a joint endeavor between Penn Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum, celebrates 10 years of teaching students how to interpret the past in an interdisciplinary context.

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Restoring at-risk Assyrian cultural heritage
An ancient cuneiform tablet.

Cuneiform inscriptions on a kudurru (stone monument), which dates to 797 BCE, found by Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists at Nimrud, Iraq.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Museum)

Restoring at-risk Assyrian cultural heritage

Archaeologists from Penn Museum and Iraq have recovered remarkably preserved shrines from a temple in northern Iraq.
Do these ancient seals unlock clues to the origins of writing?
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Do these ancient seals unlock clues to the origins of writing?

Holly Pittman of the School of Arts & Sciences and Penn Museum helped contribute to a study arguing that ancient Sumerian seals used to brand products shaped the formation of cuneiform, humanity’s earliest known example of writing.

Going above and beyond in archaeology and museum work
Qi Liu in front of Penn Museum.

Qi Liu, an anthropology and art history major, has participated in every undergraduate program the Penn Museum has to offer and is completing two senior theses.

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Going above and beyond in archaeology and museum work

Fourth-year Qi Liu has participated in every undergraduate program at the Penn Museum, done research for two senior theses in anthropology and art history, and joined excavations in the U.S. and abroad.
Uniting passions for architecture, preservation, and the Near East
Marc Marin Webb poses next to tree.

Sixth-year Ph.D. student Marc Marín Webb of the School of Arts & Sciences in his home city of Barcelona, while waiting for a visa to travel to Iraq where he is researching the built heritage of the Yezidi community.

(Image: Courtesy of Marc Marín Webb)

Uniting passions for architecture, preservation, and the Near East

Marc Marín Webb, who studied architecture in Berlin and Barcelona, is studying the impact of genocide on the built heritage of the Yezidi community in Iraq.