Rebecca Huss-Ashmore
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Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, the Associate Curator-in-Charge of Penn Museum's Physical Anthropology Section, has traveled nearly full circle in her career, from biological anthropology, where she studied how people get sick, to studying how they get well. Huss-Ashmore is working with an interdisciplinary team on a National Institute of Mental Health-funded project that examines how culture creates old age.
Publication Name: Expedition
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0014-4738
Year: 2006
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Richard Zettler
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Richard Zettler is an Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Near East Section, and Associate Professor of Anthropology who considers ancient Mesopotamia as his research passion. His various other excavations at Iraq and older burials containing clay vessels, animals like piglet, a sheep's head, or bird eggs inset as its eyes are discussed.
Publication Name: Expedition
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0014-4738
Year: 2004
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Meet the curators: Barry L. Eichler
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A brief review of Barry L. Eichler, Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Babylonian Section at Penn Museum, is illustrated. He studies and translates cuneiform texts written in Akkadian and Sumerian on clay tablets dated the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE.
Publication Name: Expedition
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0014-4738
Year: 2007
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