August 30 - September 11, 1994 



VOYAGE TO 

 ANTIQUITY 



Aboard Sea Cloud 



From classical Greek and Roman times through the Byzantine 

 Empire to the present, the eastern Mediterranean region has exerted 

 an enormous influence on world history, art and culture. 



This September, the American Museum invites you to explore this 

 area's exotic cities, magnificent landscapes and innumerable rem- 

 nants of its glorious ancient civilizations with physical anthropologist 

 Dr. Ian Tattersall and archeologist Dr. David Soren. 



Beginning and ending with the fabled city of Istanbul, we will 

 explore western Turkey's 

 incredible ancient ruins and 

 thriving towns, including 

 Ephesus, Pergamon, Termessos, 

 Troy and Antalya, as well as the 

 Greek island of Rhodes and its 

 superb acropolis. Join us aboard 

 the Sea Cloud for an extraordi- 

 nary journey back in time. 



American 

 Museum of 

 Natural 

 History 



Discovery Tours 



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New York, NY 10024-5192 



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Authors 



As a vice president and dean of science 

 of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory in New York, Michael Novacek 

 (page 40) must at- 

 tend to the admin- 

 istrative demands 

 of a huge institu- 

 tion. But as a verte- 

 brate paleontolo- 

 gist, he is still in- 

 volved in the 

 hands-on work of 

 finding fossils. In 

 this instance that 

 means spending 

 each summer with 

 the rest of a Mu- 

 seum team that is 

 navigating the Gobi Desert of Mongolia 

 in jeeps, living in a yurt, and crawling 

 over dry cliffs in search of fossils, from 

 Velociraptor to mouse-sized extinct mam- 

 mals. Novacek has also done fieldwork in 

 other dry, but fossil-rich regions such as 

 the Rockies, Baja California, Yemen, and 

 the Chilean Andes. He plans to return to 

 Chile to look for more evidence of mam- 

 mal life during the Age of Dinosaurs. 



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Champion of the pouched, Michael 

 Archer (pages 44 and 48) is a professor 

 of biological sci- 

 ence at the Uni- 

 versity of New 

 South Wales, 

 where he has 

 worked since 

 1978. A citizen of 

 both Australia and 

 the United States, 

 Archer went to Australia on a Fulbright 

 fellowship after completing a bachelor's 

 degree in geology and biology at Prince- 

 ton University. He chose to remain in 

 Australia because of its fascinating ani- 

 mals and paleontological challenges. He 

 has excavated fossil vertebrates not only 

 in the Riversleigh deposits, but through- 

 out the continent. Archer writes a column 

 for Australian Natural History and is ac- 

 tively involved in combating creationism. 



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