Naomi F. Miller

Senior Research Scientist, Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Just out on YouTube! "The Fall", a movie by Ronnie, Karen, and Naomi (1970/1971)


Gordion Tumulus update: irrigation continues
Glimpse the future:

2006

2007

2007



Plants of Gordion, a work in progress


Mudball: the Movie, an experiment in building conservation

cover Not so new book info : Yeki bud, yeki nabud, Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner and Drawing on the Past, An Archaeologist's Sketchbook (see happy customers)

Society of Ethnobiology public service announcement

Check out Archaeology magazine (back issues, vol. 57, no. 1, January/February 2004) "Seeds of Time," by Steve Nash...our seedy past, an archaeobotanist tells all [!] Don't forget that important date!

On a completely different subject (Iraq, 43), check it out!


New Discoveries!

And if you're interested, check out my publications list and watercolors


I am trying to compile a comprehensive bibliography of archaeobotanical site reports from the Near East. Right now I can e-mail text files for the bibliographies of Central Asia and beyond, Iran, Iraq, the Levant, Syria, Turkey, and the index organized by site. I'd appreciate hearing about references I have not listed. See contact information below. Thanks.

dung cakes



Gordion Ecopark!

Gordion (ca. 700 B.C.). Landscape reconstruction

Read all about it Arkeoloji ve Sanat, no. 93 (1999), pp. 12-17 ("Erosion, Biodiversity, and Archaeology: Preserving the Midas Tumulus at Gordion")


Society of Ethnobiology public service announcement
If you are doing interesting ethnobiological research (ancient/modern, plant/animal, Old World/New World, tropics/temperate/cold), why not submit an article to the Journal of Ethnobiology? If you are interested in such research, why not join the Society of Ethnobiology?



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