Wyllie Publishes Article and Reconstruction Drawings

Cherra Wyllie, associate professor of art history and archaeology, Hillyer College, and Frank Hole, professor emeritus of anthropology, Yale University, are included in Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12-16 April 2010, the British Museum and University College London, published by Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012.

The article, entitled "Personal Adornment in the Epi-Paleolithic of the Levant," features Wyllie’s reconstruction drawings of beaded headdresses and bone and shell jewelry based on archaeological data from burials at the Israeli sites of el-Wad, Mallaha, and Hayonim (radio-carbon dated to the Mesolithic Period ca. 12,500-9,500 BCE).