AWOL Administrative note and statistics

This is simply to remark that the first anniversary of AWOL was one week ago today.

• Since then I have posted 370 entries.
• The List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies contains 521 titles and is the most popular pafe in AWOL.
• Seventeen users are known to be subscribed by way of feed readers and aggregators.
• Eight hundred and seven email address are subscribed through Feedburner to receive daily notifications of new content.
• AWOL has had 74,949 page loads from 44,957 unique visitors of whom 11,469 made repeat visits [use of data distributed to email subscribers is presumably not heavily represented in these numbers since all data and links are sent for local use].

I appreciate the interest and support of those of you who use AWOL, and encourage you to comment, make suggestions, and share the content when appropriate (noting the

button which will now appear on all new and revised pages).

Administrative notes with user statistics have been posted in March 2012, November 2011, October 2011,  July 2011, April 2011, January 2011,  December 2010,  October 2010, August 2010,  July 2010, May 2010, and  January 2010.

New Exhibition Catalogue Online at the Oriental Institute

OIMP 30. Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920. Edited by Geoff Emberling. Published in 2010.

Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920

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Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history. At the end of World War I, Breasted and a small team of scholars set sail for the Near East on what would be an eleven-month odyssey across the region. The fascinating mix of politics, scholarship, and history (both ancient and modern) as seen through a focus on the larger-than-life persona of James Henry Breasted lies at the heart of Pioneers to the Past. Breasted's letters and photographs from his trip provide a window into the engagement of modern scholarship with the ancient world, in a highly charged setting of power politics in the early twentieth century. The essays in this catalogue explain the historical, legal, and political context in a way that greatly enriches our understanding of Breasted's journey and its aftermath.

• Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920
• Edited by Geoff Emberling
• Oriental Institute Museum Publications 30
• Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2010
• ISBN-13: 978-1-885923-70-7
• ISBN-10: 1-885923-70-8
• Pp. 160 + 119 full color and archival photographs
• Trim: 9" x 11.5"
• Paperback: $29.95

Newly Online at the Oriental Institute

Pioneer to the Past: The Life of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son Charles. Reprint of the Charles Scribner's Sons 1943 Edition with New Foreword and Photographs. Published in 2009.

Pioneer to the Past: The Life of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son Charles

Reprint of the Charles Scribner's Sons 1943 Edition with New Foreword and Photographs

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Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has yet produced. Breasted's greatest achievement was the founding of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1919, through the generous support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Oriental Institute embodies Breasted's vision of an inter-disciplinary research center that unites archaeology, textual

• Pioneer to the Past: The Life of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son Charles
• Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2009
• Pp. ix + 436; 16 black-and-white photo plates
• Trim: 6" x 9"
• ISBN-13: 978-1-885923-67-7
• ISBN-10: 1-885923-67-8
• Hardback: $24.95

Open Access to the archaeology of Giza

Giza Archives Project
The third entry in AWOL in early May 2008: AWOL - The Ancient World Online - 3 was a survey of Peter Manuelian's Giza Archives Project, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts which includes a "a freely accessible, online library of monographs, articles, and manuscripts on the Giza Necropolis".

The current inventory of the Giza Library includes every Giza book and article by the members of the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (George Reisner, William Stevenson Smith, Dows Dunham, etc.), as well as every Egyptian and Nubian article ever published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (BMFA). It also includes all volumes of the more recent Giza Mastabas Series, edited by Peter Der Manuelian and William Kelly Simpson. Finally, current scholarship is also well represented.

Ancient Egypt Research Associates Giza Project

Journal articles by Mark Lehner

The Development of the Giza Necropolis: The Khufu Project
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologishen Institutes, Abteilung Kairo 41 (1985): 109-43
The 1988/89 Excavation of Petrie’s “Workmen’s Barracks” at Giza
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 38 (2001): 21-60 PDF
The Pyramid Age Settlement of the Southern Mount at Giza
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002): 27-74 PDF

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Egyptian Pottery Manuals

A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Dr. Anna Wodzińska. A second edition will be coming out late in 2010 with an expanded introduction and additional material. Download the PDFs for free below.

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Selected Articles from Our Specialists: Material Culture Analysts and Archaeological Science

We take a multi-disciplinary view in analyzing the complex archaeological site of the Giza Plateau demands. To help our readers to gain a better understanding of the many specialist disciplines that we use in our study of ancient Egypt, we will post a variety of articles from our field and storeroom specialists on this page. We hope that this will give you a sense of the AERA philosophy of looking at Egyptian archaeology from all sides. For a more complete listing of our team members publications, please visit our Lectures and Publications page.
A Girl and Her Goddess
Life and death in Late Period Giza
Flint Industries at Ancient Giza
Stone Age Tools in the Bronze Age
A Pyramid-builder’s House
Conservation and reconstruction
Pyramids and Protein
Of cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Making data talk to us

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AERAGRAM

AERAGRAM is the official newsletter of Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
Download the AERAGRAM PDFs for free.

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Giza Occasional Papers (GOP)

The Giza Occasional Papers are the preliminary reports on AERA’s field seasons at Giza.
Download the GOP PDFs for free.

Giza Plateau Mapping Project (AERA in association with the Oriental Institute - Chicago)

The Giza Plateau Mapping Project, under the direction of Mark Lehner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Egyptian archaeology at the Oriental Institute, is dedicated to research on the geology and topography of the Giza plateau, the construction and function of the Sphinx, the Great Pyrimids, the associated tombs and temples, and the Old Kingdom town in the vicinity. Lehner is a pioneer in the use of state-of-the-art computer graphics and remote sensing technology to model the ancient configuration of the Giza Plateau. In addition he has collaborated with an architectural firm to produce a detailed computer model of the Sphnix which is of exceptional value both as a research tool and to guide current conservation efforts.

Articles

• 1992 Article: EXCAVATIONS AT GIZA 1988-1991: The Location and Importance of the Pyramid Settlement

Annual Reports [of field seasons at Giza]

• 2008-2009 Annual Report
• 2007-2008 Annual Report
• 2005-2006 Annual Report
• 2003-2004 Annual Report
• 2002-2003 Annual Report
• 2001-2002 Annual Report
• 2000-2001 Annual Report
• 1999-2000 Annual Report
• 1998-1999 Annual Report
• 1995-1996 Annual Report
• 1993-1994 Annual Report
• 1991-1992 Annual Report

Open Access Manuscript Library of Switzerland

e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

The goal of e-codices is to provide access to the medieval manuscripts of Switzerland via a virtual library. On the e-codices site, complete digital reproductions of the manuscripts are linked with corresponding scholarly descriptions. Our aim is to serve not only manuscript researchers, but also interested members of the general public.

Open Access to the Oriental Institute Annual Reports

Oriental Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report

The paper-based version of the Oriental Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report appeared in October 2009 and is in the hands of members. I received mine on October 28 2009. Paper copies of OI Annual Reports are only available to members of the Oriental Institute. What? You're not a member? Go directly to the Membership Office and enroll yourself!

Not previously available for sale, this year's Annual Report may be purchased from David Brown Book Company/Oxbow Books

The open access digital version appeared today, January 8, 2010. One major change in this year's online Annual Report is that illustrations are in color. Until now both paper and digital versions had black & white illustrations.

Eighteen back issues of Oriental Institute Annual Reports are available digitally.

Contents of the Oriental Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report:

The Entire 2008-2009 Annual Report In A Single Adobe Acrobat Document

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INTRODUCTlON

INTRODUCTION. Gil J. Stein

IN MEMORIAM: Mary J. Grimshaw

RESEARCH

ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMIC CITIES. Donald Whitcomb

CADIR HÖYÖK. Ronald L. Gourny

CAMEL (Center for the Archaeology of the Middle Eastern Landscape). Scott Branting

CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY. Martha T. Roth

CHICAGO DEMOTIC DlCTlONARY. François Gaudard and Janet H. Johnson

CHICAGO HITTITE DlCTIONARY. Theo van den Hout

EPIGRAPHIC SURVEY. W. Raymond Johnson

GIZA FIELD SEASON. Mark Lehner

HAMOUKAR. Clemens D. Reichel

KERKENES DAG PROJECT. Scott Branting

MUMMY LABEL DATABASE. François Gaudard, Raquel Martín Hernández, and Sofía Torallas Tovar

NIPPUR. McGuire Gibson

PERSEPOLIS FORTIFICATION ARCHIVE PROJECT. Matthew W. Stolper

SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION. Amar Annus

SYRIAC MANUSCRIPT PROJECT. Stuart Creason

TELL EDFU. Nadine Moeller

TELL ZEIDAN. Gil J. Stein

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH 2008-2009

RESEARCH SUPPORT

COMPUTER LABORATORY. John C. Sanders

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES. John C. Sanders

PUBLICATIONS. Thomas G. Urban

RESEARCH ARCHIVES. Foy Scalf

MUSEUM

MUSEUM. Geoff Emberling

• Special Exhibits: Emily Teeter
• Publicity: Emily Teeter
• Registration: Helen McDonald
• Archives: John larson
• Conservation: Laura D'Alessandro
• Prep Shop: Erik Lindahl
• Suq: Denise Browning
• Photography: Anna R. Ressman
• Museum Education: Carole Krucoff
• Volunteer Program: Catherine Duenas and Terry Friedman

DEVELOPMENT AND MEMBERSHIP

DEVELOPMENT. Steve Camp

MEMBERSHIP. Sarah Sapperstein and Maeve Reed

SPECIAL EVENTS. Kaye Oberhausen

PERSONNEL

VISITING COMMITTEE TO THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE

FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE

Open Access Journal: PalArch Journal of Archaeology of Northwest Europe

PalArch Journal of Archaeology of Northwest Europe

n.b. As noted in the announcement from the PalArch Foundation content from this journal no linger appears at the original site, and has been archives 

Papers

PJANE accepts papers with topics such as:

• Aerial archaeological survey
• Archaeological techniques, theory etc.
• Archaeozoology, -botany
• Architecture
• Art history
• History of science
• Museology
• Preparation/conservation
• Underwater archaeology

The Journal publishes contributions from prehistory to the Medieval Period. If there is doubt whether a paper can be submitted or not, please contact the responsible managing editor first.

Papers can take the form of, for instance:

• (Exposition) catalogues
• Descriptions
• Discussions and correspondences
• Headline news
• Independent (case)studies
• Institute based (case)studies
• Notes
• Reports (such as survey and excavation reports)
• Supplements to previous published work
• Symposia, workshops etc. and their proceedings

Book reviews Since we have been co-operating with many well-known and worldwide publishers, the continuous expanding of this system has resulted in the inclusion in our journal of reviews of scientific as well as popular books, which are reviewed by various specialists in the field. The book reviews are free to download and with uploading the new issue, the book reviews stay online in the archives with their title; they are sent for free as pdf-file to anyone who asks for it! In order to discuss books from various angles, we allow two reviews of the same book (in exceptional cases even more) on the condition that the reviews are written with different views and provoke discussion. Also review of older books are welcome; although this is from a commercial point of view of minor importance for the publisher, it still can be of importance for colleague scientists and other interested people. You can send your book review (in English) with the following details: author(s)/editor(s), year, full title, place, publisher, number of pages, ISBN, price, hardback/paperback to the responsible managing editor. Also, send the scanned images (300 dpi or more) of the front and back of the book.

Moving Images

PJANE offers the possibility of the publication of animations, such as ct scans of fossils or mummies or large picture databases.

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies.