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AERAgram 9, Fall 2008

AERAgram 9

PDF Format. 20 pages.

The most recent Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) newsletter is now online at the above address. There has been a placeholder for it for months but there has never been a functional link. It is working now, although the link says "Fall" and the PDF itself says "Spring". Take your pick. Here are the contents:

Impressions of the Past: Seals and Sealings from Pottery Mound
Lost City Site, Flooded
AERA Launches New Membership Program
Digging Old Luxor

Here's an extract from Impressions of the Past:

In 2005, Yukinori Kawae and Tove Björk excavated two 5 x 5-meter squares within a midden we dubbed Pottery Mound, uncovering enormous quantities of bone, charred plant remains, pottery, sealings, and other trash. Located in the district of large houses we call the Western Town, this mound of debris was probably left by high-ranking people. The bone, as Richard Redding explained in the Fall 2007 issue of AERAGRAM, came primarily from animals that the well-to-do would have eaten, such as young cattle and game. Here John Nolan, our senior epigrapher, discusses the sealings found in Pottery Mound and the part they might play in helping us learn more about our site. The sealings—mud impressed by a cylinder seal—were used to secure a wide array of goods. In analyzing these bits of impressed mud, Nolan uses a groundbreaking approach to reconstruct the cylinder seals that made the impressions. He then goes a step further and uses the same sealings to extract information about the original seal, its uses, and its owner. These impressions may be small, but they can speak volumes.

See the above for the entire newsletter.

- Aera Lab Work
You Tube Video A quick look into the work that is carried out in the AERA Lab on our site; the analysis of bone fragments, ceramics, stone, mud sealings and more. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...

- Giza Plateau Dig Diary
AERA Blog The season at Giza is getting underway with staff arriving and opening up different areas of the operation: AERA’s Giza Lab officially opened for the season on Sunday, February 1st, 2009. This funny place doesn’t look like much from the...

- Kelsey Museum Of Archaeology Newsletter Fall 2007
Kelsey Museum Newsletter Thanks to a post by Mia Rikala to the EEF email group for pointing me at a newsletter which had not come to my attention previously: the Kelsey Museum Newsletter. The most recent issue is the Spring 2007 publication. This and...

- Kv63 - Summary Of The Latest News
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/heritage.htm The Al Ahram Weekly's Nevine El-Aref summarizes the situation at KV63, with news of the latest discoveries: "Hawass told Al-Ahram Weekly that the team had also opened the sealed jars and found that...

- New Website Re Giza Plateau Mapping Project
http://www.aeraweb.org/ The above is a new website, which is the official Web site of the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), specifically Dr. Mark Lehner and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project. It is a good looking site, with some nice features,...

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