Departments, November/December 1997 - Archaeology Magazine Archive


Departments	Volume 50 Number 6, November/December 1997

In This Issue
A Cautious Scholar Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, the superintendent of Pompeii and Herculaneum, has a sense of moderation that sets him apart from his predecessors. By Peter A. Young

From the President
Era of Hard Choices The United States faces a resource crisis in archaeology, especially for the classical world. Can American institutions justify funding huge digs like that at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum? By Stephen L. Dyson

Letters Portrait Puzzlement, Kudos for Logan

Insight
The Post-Roman World Recent scholarship rejects the idea that a Dark Ages of chaos and obscurity characterized the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. By James Wiseman

Books
Legacy of Dunhuang Appreciating a millennium of art at the end of the Silk Road (Dunhuang, Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road. R. Whitfield, photographs by Seigo Otsuka. 2 vols.: 355 pages and 393 color plates. London: Textile and Art Publications Ltd., 1995. $475.00. ISBN 1-898406-05-7: To order, call 44-171-499-7979; Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road. N. Agnew, ed. Proceedings of an International Conference of Grotto Sites. 405 pages. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1997. $75.00 ISBN 0-89236-416-5: To order, call 1-800-223-3431.) Reviewed by James O. Caswell. (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of new books.)

At the Museums
Re-creating Neanderthals A review of the new Neandertal Museum in Mettmann, Germany, and its exhibition of human evolution. (Contact: Neandertal Museum, Talstrasse 300, D-40822 Mettmann, Germany, tel. +49-2104-979-797; fax +49-2104-979-796; open Tuesday-Sunday; 10:00-6:00.) Reviewed by Paul G. Bahn. (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of museum exhibitions.)

Multimedia
Perseus II A review of Perseus 2.0: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, a CD-ROM containing ancient texts, information about artifacts, images of objects and archaeological sites, and essays on history and archaeology. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Comprehensive edition, $350.00, ISBN 0-300-05936-1; Concise Edition, $150.00, ISBN 0-300-05939-6. To order, call Yale University Press, 1-800-987-7323.) Reviewed by Harrison Eiteljorg, II.

Forum
Gift of the Nile One man's experiences while visiting Egypt's Elephantine Island, a sliver of land in the Nile
By Dale Mackenzie Brown.

In This Issue A Cautious Scholar	Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, the superintendent of Pompeii and Herculaneum, has a sense of moderation that sets him apart from his predecessors. By Peter A. Young
From the President Era of Hard Choices	The United States faces a resource crisis in archaeology, especially for the classical world. Can American institutions justify funding huge digs like that at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum? By Stephen L. Dyson
Letters	Portrait Puzzlement, Kudos for Logan
Insight The Post-Roman World	Recent scholarship rejects the idea that a Dark Ages of chaos and obscurity characterized the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. By James Wiseman
Books Legacy of Dunhuang	Appreciating a millennium of art at the end of the Silk Road (Dunhuang, Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road. R. Whitfield, photographs by Seigo Otsuka. 2 vols.: 355 pages and 393 color plates. London: Textile and Art Publications Ltd., 1995. $475.00. ISBN 1-898406-05-7: To order, call 44-171-499-7979; Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road. N. Agnew, ed. Proceedings of an International Conference of Grotto Sites. 405 pages. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1997. $75.00 ISBN 0-89236-416-5: To order, call 1-800-223-3431.) Reviewed by James O. Caswell. (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of new books.)
At the Museums Re-creating Neanderthals	A review of the new Neandertal Museum in Mettmann, Germany, and its exhibition of human evolution. (Contact: Neandertal Museum, Talstrasse 300, D-40822 Mettmann, Germany, tel. +49-2104-979-797; fax +49-2104-979-796; open Tuesday-Sunday; 10:00-6:00.) Reviewed by Paul G. Bahn. (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of museum exhibitions.)
Multimedia Perseus II	A review of Perseus 2.0: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, a CD-ROM containing ancient texts, information about artifacts, images of objects and archaeological sites, and essays on history and archaeology. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Comprehensive edition, $350.00, ISBN 0-300-05936-1; Concise Edition, $150.00, ISBN 0-300-05939-6. To order, call Yale University Press, 1-800-987-7323.) Reviewed by Harrison Eiteljorg, II.
Forum Gift of the Nile	One man's experiences while visiting Egypt's Elephantine Island, a sliver of land in the Nile By Dale Mackenzie Brown.