Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its archaeological assemblage

Qumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. It constitutes preliminary work done as part of the Leverhulme funded International Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Caves Artefacts and Archival Sources [IN-2015-067].peer-reviewe

Robert H. Lamborn: At the Intersection of Anthropology and Museums in the Nineteenth Century

In the nineteenth century, anthropology began to coalesce as a discipline while museums modernized their mission as educational institutions. Because objects were key sources of anthropological knowledge during this period, museums operated as the institutional base for the discipline. Robert Henry Lamborn was a collector who was deeply involved in developing anthropological theories and museum best practices, differing from both museum professionals and private collectors in his methods and goals. Lamborn presents an ideal case study for examining the intersection of anthropology and museums in the nineteenth century, as well as the object-based theoretical underpinnings of anthropology, a history that anthropologists and museum professionals are returning to in the present. Because he had no formal training in or obligations to the discipline of anthropology or the museum profession, Lamborn was able to explore certain topics and combinations of theories that others were not able to. Through a combination of archival research, object analysis, and theoretical examination, I explore the ways in which Lamborn utilized anthropological theories to display his objects in three Philadelphia museums

The College News 1983-11-30 Vol. 6 No. 6

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The College News 1983-11-30 Vol. 6 No. 6

Published every two weeks (except holidays) during the academic year

Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 16 (2013)

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Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 16 (2013)

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The Critique Became the Counter-Narrative: Planning Manhattan North of the Street Grid

Northern Manhattan has a rich, complex history; this thesis focuses on key figures who discovered, documented, and sought to preserve it. These central figures created maps that documented the site’s many histories, as well as planned new streets and parks that shaped its future development. Starting with Andrew Haswell Green’s initial 1865 plan for the area north of the 155th Street terminus of the 1811 street grid, this paper analyzes the intertwined actions of civic leaders, preservationists, social reformers, archeologists, philanthropists, and an art historian who shaped the area’s design in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Green’s plan supported incremental development over time, as opposed to an immediately realized grid plan, and thus supported both the later integration of new connections from the island to the mainland, and the preservation of areas along the waterfronts as parkland. This later became the planning model for Greater New York. This paper argues that through subsequent planning and preservation actions, the area north of the 1811 street grid realized a unique sense of place unattainable within the grid plan’s imposed orthogonal system. It discusses the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (ASHPS), founded by Green in 1895. This Society sought to strengthen the sense of place through preserving historic hilltop Revolutionary War fortifications and their associated aesthetic views. The paper introduces Reginald Pelham Bolton, who became a leader of the ASHPS after Green’s 1903 death. Bolton, an engineer, and a group of archeologists, without formal training, began to investigate, and document both Revolutionary War and Native American artifacts being lost in the rapidly developing neighborhood. In 1904 he presciently proposed to preserve the Native American archeological sites in what would later become Inwood Hill Park at the north end of the island as a bold act of land preservation within the expanded metropolis of Greater New York. In a similar act of land preservation in 1911, Julia Isham Taylor and her aunt Flora Isham donated a public park with purchased land and from the family’s hilltop estate, with the stipulation that the city would preserve the view to the Hudson and the Palisades for the public. The new park thus introduced an aesthetic directive into the city’s design vocabulary. Progressive Era Borough President George McAneny, who worked with the Ishams to redesign the streets to preserve the view, employed the new park to create a new residential neighborhood close to parks and to public transportation. This type of integrated design became a foundational narrative for the Progressive City Planning Movement

Victorian Material Culture in Memphis, Tennessee: The Mallory-Neely House Interiors As Artifact

The interiors of the Mallory-Neely House are valuable surviving documents of nineteenth century American culture warranting careful research, preservation and interpretation. Victorian Village, where the mansion is located in Memphis, is a nationally recognized enclave of nineteenth-century domestic structures. Previous research has centered primarily on the genealogical background of the owners and to a much lesser degree on the architectural history of these houses; none had focused in a scholarly manner on the interiors and furnishings. This is especially true of the Mallory-Neely House, the only one containing its original interior decor. These represent stratification of occupation and renovation by five families. Major phases of Victorian interior architectural treatment, changing approaches to interior decoration, and myriad Victorian furniture styles are represented. Due to an almost total lack of written documentation directly concerning the Mallory-Neely interiors, a material cultures methodological approach was used. Each of the interconnected ceremonial rooms was treated as an artifact. A system was developed in order to read” and gather data about each component of these interiors as well as the room ensemble as a whole. This information was then coupled with written evidence from various archival sources to form a base for interpretation. The artifacts comprising the Mallory-Neely interiors were found to be reflective of a society evolving towards modernization and representative of technological change. Dynamic change brought disruption of the social order and created a desire among Victorians for stabilizing symbols. The Mallory-Neely ceremonial interiors were created as a stage of status where symbolic social ritual was enacted. The interiors and their contents along with their closely related architectural and landscape surround visually communicated the owners\u27 elite status in the hierarchial class structure of the time