Tamara Stech Papers
PU-Mu. 0086
- Creator(s)
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Stech, Tamara
- Date(s)
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[inclusive] 1970-1993
- Call Number
- PU-Mu. 0086
- Physical Description
- Extent: 2.4 Linear Feet
- Language(s)
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eng
Tamara Stech came to Philadelphia in 1963 to attend Bryn Mawr College from which she received both her B.A. and Ph.D degrees in archaeology. Her Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 1973, was written on the topic of Near Eastern archaeology. Stech worked under and in cooperation with Mechteld Mellink at Bryn Mawr during her studies and early career. She was among the first scholars to have been trained in both the humanities and science. The Tamara Stech papers consist of six archival cartons of materials. They are organized by country and then individual sites locations. Most of the folders relate to metallurgical analysis.
Tamara Stech came to Philadelphia in 1963 to attend Bryn Mawr College from which she received both her B.A. and Ph.D degrees in archaeology. Her Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 1973, was written on the topic of Near Eastern archaeology. Stech worked under and in cooperation with Mechteld Mellink at Bryn Mawr during her studies and early career. She was among the first scholars to have been trained in both the humanities and science.
In 1974, Stech came to the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant Professor in the Department of Material Science and Engineering. There she teamed up with Robert Maddin, Department of Anthropology at Harvard and James Muhly, Department of Oriental Studies at Penn. Stech would work and publish with these colleagues for much of her career.
Stech specialized in the metallurgy of the Near East and worked primarily in southwest Turkey. In addition, her work took her to Italy, Slovenia, Morocco, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Mesopotamia, Laos and Thailand. From 1987 to 1992, Stech edited the Journal of Archaeomaterials. She, along with her colleagues Maddin and Muhly were recognized with the Pomerance Award for Scientific Excellence to Archaeology in 1994. In addition to her other duties, Stech served as secretary of her alma mater, Bryn Mawr.
Maddin, Muhly and Stech wrote voluminously for scientific journals, assisted in MASCA research and contributed to University publications including Expedition Magazine. Their papers included "How the Iron Age Began", Tin in the Ancient Near East: Old Questions and New Finds", "The Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck and the Bronze Age Metals Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. Stech also co-authored with Vincent C. Pigott and Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop.
Stech contributed to radio station WHYY. One of her lectures was titled "Out of the Fiery Furnace: The Story of Metal and Man" discussing the transition from bronze to iron in weapons, tools, and artifacts.
Stech retired and relocated to Vermont in 1996 to care for her husband. She returned to the Philadelphia area in 2010 and settled in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. Tamara Stech passed away in 2016.
Tamara Stech came to Philadelphia in 1963 to attend Bryn Mawr College from which she received both her B.A. and Ph.D degrees in archaeology. Her Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 1973, was written on the topic of Near Eastern archaeology. Stech worked under and in cooperation with Mechteld Mellink at Bryn Mawr during her studies and early career. She was among the first scholars to have been trained in both the humanities and science.
The Tamara Stech papers were gifted to the Museum in 2017 by her son, Caleb Wheeler. The papers were reviewed twice prior to formal processing. The first review eliminated duplications and reprint of material not related to Stech or her co-authors. The second review organized the materials by location of the work which became the guiding force for the development of series.
The Tamara Stech papers consist of six archival cartons of materials. They are organized by country which form twelve of the series. Within each series the folders are group by site locations in alphabetical order. Two additional series contain material related to the USA-USSR Exchange of 1993 which consist of copies of the papers presented by Penn and other scientists from the USA and those from the USSR. A series of miscellaneous papers complete the group.
The organization within each series is straightforward with the majority of the materials related to metallurgical analysis. There is one area of overlap, a notebook titles "Turkey-Sardonia" which is with the materials from Turkey.
The photographs were maintained within the location grouping. They include prints, negatives and some contact sheets. The photos were partially processed. The negatives remain unprocessed to date.
Publication Information: University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives,
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Corporate Name(s)
- MASCA
Geographic Name(s)
- Ur (extinct city)
- Thailand
- Tepe Gawra (deserted settlement)
- Khafajah (deserted settlement)
- Bāb edh-Dhrāʻ Site (Jordan)
- Cyprus
- Fara (inhabited place)
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Morocco
- Laos
- Mesopotamia
- Egypt
Personal Name(s)
- Pigott, Vincent C.
- Stech, Tamara
- Maxwell-Hyslop, Rachel
- Maddin, Robert
- Muhly, James David
Subject(s)
- Metallurgy
Collections Inventory
Cyprus
| Apliki Correspondence and Draft | box 1 |
| Athienou Correspondence | box 1 |
| Athienou Reports | box 1 |
| Athienou Analysis (photos) | box 1 |
| "Metalworking at Athienou" | box 1 |
| Athienou Monograph | box 1 |
| Athienou Photographs | box 1 |
| Enkomi Correspondence | box 1 |
| Enkomi Ingot Notes | box 1 |
| Enkomi Report on Copper Ingot | box 1 |
| Enkomi Ingot Report and Notes | box 1 |
| Enkomi Analysis Metropolitan Museum Ingot | box 1 |
| Enkomi Ingot Photographs (M. Mudd) | box 1 |
| Kalavasos Correspondence | box 1 |
| Kalavasos Analysis | box 1 |
| Kition Correspondence 1982-1985 | box 1 |
| Kition Notes | box 1 |
| Kition Notebook | box 1 |
| Kition Analysis | box 1 |
| Kition Analysis with Photographs | box 1 |
| Kition Analysis and Notes | box 1 |
| "Copper Metallurgy and Copper Production at Kition" | box 1 |
| Kition Floor Plans/Illustrations | box 1 |
| "Copper Production at Kition in the Late Bronze Age" | box 1 |
| Kition Photographs (1 of 2) | box 1 |
| Kition Photographs (2 of 2) | box 1 |
| Kition Negatives and Contact Sheets | box 1 |
| Kition (and others) Notebook | box 1 |
| Kouklia Skales Tomb Notes/Photographs | box 1 |
| Kyrenia Iron Analysis Paper | box 1 |
| Lapithos Correspondence 1981-1986 | box 1 |
| Lapithos Sample Lists | box 1 |
| Lapithos Analysis | box 1 |
| Lapithos Pixie Analysis Preliminary Interpretation | box 1 |
| Lapithos "Initial Analysis on Metals..." 1931-1932 Excavations | box 1 |
| Lapithos Compositional and Metallographic Analysis of Copper Based Objects" | box 1 |
| Lapithos Photographs | box 1 |
| Maroni-Vournes Analysis Report | box 1 |
| Maroni Sample Analysis | box 1 |
| Haagerrsen Paper-Ancient Cyprus Slag 1981 | box 1 |
| Cypriot Bronzes Contact Sheets/Photographs | box 1 |
| Muhly, Maddin, Stech Paper for "ROAC" | box 1 |
| Symposium Talk-Bronze Age Copper Smelting in Cyprus | box 1 |
| Cyprus (Various Sites) Analysis 1981-1989 | box 1 |
| Metal Objects Report 1977 | box 1 |
Egypt
| Abydos Analysis | box 1 |
| Giza Analysis | box 1 |
| Giza "Old Kingdom Models from Tomb of Impy..." | box 1 |
| Egypt (Various Sites) Tin Analysis | box 1 |
| Naqada Correspondence 1981 | box 1 |
| Naqada Copper Analysis | box 1 |
| Saslow Collection Correspondence and Photographs | box 1 |
| Saslow Collection Report | box 1 |
| Sinai Analysis | box 1 |
| Sinai Photographs (1 of 2) | box 2 |
| Sinai Photographs (2 of 2) | box 2 |
Greece
| Athens Agora Correspondence 1975-1981 | box 2 |
| Athens Agora Analysis | box 2 |
| Gournia Correspondence 1980 | box 2 |
| Gournia Analysis | box 2 |
| Gournia "Atomic Absorption Analysis of 12 Sherds from Gournia" | box 2 |
| Gournia "Metallurgy at Gournia" | box 2 |
| Kommos Correspondence 1981-1988 | box 2 |
| Kommos Notes | box 2 |
| Kommos Sample Lists | box 2 |
| Kommos Analysis | box 2 |
| Kommos Report | box 2 |
| Kommos Photographs | box 2 |
| Simi Report | box 2 |
Iran
| Iran (No site) "Origin of Metallurgy in Iran" | box 2 |
| Iran (No site) Object Photographs | box 2 |
| Kish Analysis | box 2 |
| Kish Ms Introduction | box 2 |
| Susa Analysis/Photos | box 2 |
Iraq
| Tell Abu Duwari Manuscript | box 2 |
| Tell Billa Burial Inventory List | box 2 |
| Tell Billa Sample List | box 2 |
| Tell Billa Notes/Photos | box 2 |
| Tell Billa Analysis | box 2 |
| Tell Billa Report on 1932-1933 Season | box 2 |
| Tell Fara Pottery Notebook | box 2 |
| Tell Fara Report on Iron Knife-Tomb 240 | box 2 |
| Khorsabad "Metallurgical Study of 2 Iron Objects" | box 2 |
| Yarim Tepe Correspondence 1975 | box 2 |
Iraq-Mesopotamia
| Tepe Gawra Analysis | box 2 |
| Nimrud, Khorsabad "Neo Assyrian Ironworking Technology | box 2 |
| Nimrud, Khorsabad "Neo Assyrian Ironworking Technology | box 2 |
| Khaf Analysis | box 2 |
| Nippur Sample List | box 2 |
| Nippur Notes | box 2 |
| Ur Analysis | box 2 |
| Ur "Catalogue of Metallographic Samples" | box 2 |
| Ur Untitled Draft | box 2 |
| Ur, Tepe Gawra "Society and Technology: Metallurgy in Ancient Mesopotamia" | box 2 |
| Ur "Metallurgy of Ninevite 5" | box 2 |
| MMP Analysis (Alloys) | box 2 |
| MMP Outline of Publication | box 2 |
| MMP "Early Metallurgy in Mesopotamia and Anatolia" | box 2 |
| SMP Analysis (1 of 2) | box 2 |
| SMP Analysis (2 of 2) | box 2 |
| SMP Statistical Analysis | box 2 |
| SMP Report # 1 | box 2 |
| SMP Report # 2 | box 2 |
| Miscellaneous Notes | box 2 |
| Akkad, Ur, Kishmet, others Miscellaneous Sample Analysis | box 2 |
Israel
| Akko Analysis | box 2 |
| Akko Analysis Reports 1976, 1977 | box 2 |
| Akko Season Reports 1976, 1977 | box 2 |
| Akko Photographs | box 2 |
| Alon Photographs | box 2 |
| Arad Photographs (1 of 4) | box 2 |
| Arad Photographs (2 of 4) | box 2 |
| Arad Photographs (3 of 4) | box 2 |
| Arad Photographs (4 of 4) | box 3 |
| Beer Resisim Bar Ingot Reports/Photos 1980 | box 3 |
| Bir Safadi (Neve-Noy) Correspondence 1993;1997 | box 3 |
| Bir Safadi (Neve-Noy) Photographs | box 3 |
| Deir El-Balah Analysis Report | box 3 |
| Tel Ertun Artifact Report | box 3 |
| Tel Ertun Photographs | box 3 |
| Enon Analysis | box 3 |
| Enon Metallurgy Report | box 3 |
| Enon Tomb Article | box 3 |
| Enon Eisenberg Photographs | box 3 |
| Far Yaruham, Negev. Hebron Hills Report of Ingot Study | box 3 |
| Fara Analysis | box 3 |
| Fara Photographs | box 3 |
| Haifa Tin Ingot Report | box 3 |
| Haifa Tin Photographs | box 3 |
| Ha Zore'a Axe Report | box 3 |
| Ha Zore'a Photographs | box 3 |
| Herzliya Analysis | box 3 |
| Hisholy Carmel Analysis and Photographs | box 3 |
| Tell Jemmeh Report to Smithsonian | box 3 |
| Jerusalem Analysis and Photographs | box 3 |
| Masada Analysis and Photographs | box 3 |
| Masada Notes, Draft-Armor | box 3 |
| Masada Report on Armor | box 3 |
| Masada Photographs (1 of 3) | box 3 |
| Masada Photographs (2 of 3) | box 3 |
| Masada Photographs and Notes (3 of 3) | box 3 |
| Tell Mevorrakh Correspondence | box 3 |
| Tell Mor Analysis | box 3 |
| Mt. Adir Correspondence, Photographs- Iron Pick | box 3 |
| Mt. Adir "Steel Pick from Mt. Adir in Palestine" | box 3 |
| Tell el-Oreme (Kinneret) "Iron from Kinneret" | box 3 |
| Tell el-Oreme (Kinneret) Volkmar, Fritz Reprint | box 3 |
| Tell el-Oreme (Kinneret) Photographs | box 3 |
| Tel Qasile Analysis | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Correspondence 1970-1985 | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Object Lists | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Lists | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Inventory Lists | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Notes for Catalogue | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Analysis-Copper | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Analysis-Iron | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Analysis-Iron (2 of 2) | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Copper Lists | box 3 |
| Ta'anach List-Metal Jewelry | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Artifacts Loaned for Metallurgy Analysis 1976 | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Lecture (?) | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Salvage Report | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Preliminary Iron Report | box 3 |
| Ta'anach "Bronze Age at Ta'anach" | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Partial Report (no Pg. 1) | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Drawing, Photographs | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Photo Notebook | box 3 |
| Ta'anach Photographs TTA (figures) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Photographs | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Illustrations | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Photographs Figures 25-30 | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Photographs for Figures | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Group Photographs | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Photographs Arad 1 and 2 | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TTD-TT61) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TTA-144) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT90-TTC) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT154-TT198) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT224-TT245) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT244-TT259) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT334-TT342) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT349) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT378-TT511) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT512-TT547) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT556-TT658) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT671-TT706) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT707-TT712) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT713-TT757) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT775) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT780-TT797) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT813-TT840) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT887-TT979) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT984-TT1047) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1049-TT1095) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1102-TT1142) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1154-TT1197) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1198-TT1222) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1226-TT1244) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1246-TT1397) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1407-TT1416) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1421-TT1443) | box 4 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1477-TT1478) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1512) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1539-1602) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1618-1646) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1651-1663) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1679-1680) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1685-1719) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT1752) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT322-TT518) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT408 and TT1752) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT986) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT408 and TT322) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis (TT408 and TT322) | box 5 |
| Ta'anach Analysis Negatives | box 5 |
| Wadi Ghazzeh Anaysis Report | box 5 |
| Wadi Ghazzeh Photographs | box 5 |
| Various Sites Photographs | box 5 |
Italy
| Poggio Civitate "Analysis of Metal Working By Products From Poggio Civitate" | box 5 |
| Sardinia Correspondence 1975-1981 | box 5 |
| Sardinia Notes | box 5 |
| Sardinia Ingot Analysis | box 5 |
| Sardinia "Preliminary Research on Ancient Metallurgy..." | box 5 |
| Sardinia Second Preliminary Report | box 5 |
| Sardinia Analysis-Slag | box 5 |
| Sardinia Ingot Report | box 5 |
| Sardinia "Early Metallurgy in Sardinia..." and Conclusions | box 5 |
| Sardinia Analysis Eight Objects | box 5 |
| Sardinia "Bronze Age Metallurgy in Sardinia: Problems and Prospects" | box 5 |
| Sardinia Illustration (Map) | box 5 |
| Sardinia Photographs for Publication | box 5 |
| Sardinia Photographs | box 5 |
Jordan
| Bab edh-Dhra Correspondence 1978-1990 | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra Samples List | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra Analysis (1 of 2) | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra Analysis (2 of 2) Object Cards | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra "Metallurgy of Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira" | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira Copper Analysis Report | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra Photographs (1 of 4) | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra Photographs (2 of 4) | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra Photographs (3 of 4) | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra Photographs (4 of 4) | box 5 |
| Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira "Historical Setting and Metallurgy" | box 5 |
| Dead Sea-Report of Expedition 1981 | box 5 |
| Hesban Analysis | box 5 |
| Hesban Progress Report | box 5 |
| Hesban Photographs | box 5 |
| Hesban "Metallurgy of Archaeological Samples from Tell Hesban" | box 5 |
| Pella Correspondence, Photographs, "Bronze Age Steel from Pella" | box 5 |
| Tell es Saidiyeh Correspondence 1980 | box 5 |
Laos
| Ban Nadi Object Cards with Photographs | box 5 |
| Ban Nadi Untitled Draft (Weng) | box 5 |
Morocco
| Lixus Metal Objects Report | box 5 |
| Lixus Photographs | box 5 |
| Lixus Partial Draft with Figures | box 5 |
| Linux Analysis (metal objects) | box 5 |
Slovenia
| Sticna Analysis (metal samples) | box 5 |
Syria
| Tell Hadidi Correspondence 1979 | box 5 |
| Tell Hadidi Analysis | box 5 |
| Tell Hadidi Notes | box 5 |
| Tell Hadidi "Metal Samples from Tell Hadidi and Neighboring North Syrian Sites" | box 5 |
| Qadesh Cave Analysis | box 5 |
| Tell Leilan Analysis | box 5 |
| Al Mina "A Steel Tool of the Fourth Century From Al Mina, Syria" | box 5 |
Thailand
| Ban Chiang Correspondence 1975-1976 | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang Specimen Lists | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang Metals Lists (with other sites) | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang Analysis Notes | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang Analysis Paper | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang Draft | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang "Reflections on Early Metallurgy in S.E. Asia" | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang Analysis of Fifteen Objects | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang, Non Nok Tha "Early Indigenous Bronze Technology..." | box 5 |
| Ban Chiang, Non Nok Tha AIA Talk S.E. Asia Bronzes | box 5 |
| Non Nok Tha Correspondence 1974-1988 | box 5 |
| Non Nok Tha Object Notes | box 5 |
| Non Nok Tha Analysis | box 5 |
| Non Nok Tha Photographs | box 5 |
| "Early Thai Metalsmith Techniques" | box 5 |
| Draft C.F.Gorman | box 5 |
| Thai Bronzes Analysis | box 5 |
Turkey
| Turkey-Sardinia Notebook 1984 | box 5 |
| Anatolia Correspondence | box 5 |
| Anatolia Preliminary Report | box 5 |
| "Bronze Metallurgy of Anatolia and the Question of Tin Sources" | box 5 |
| Anatolia Reprints | box 5 |
| Lecture "Death and Politics in Early Anatolia" | box 5 |
| Cayonu Object Cards | box 5 |
| Cayonu "Neolithic Copper Metallurgy in S.W. Asia" | box 5 |
| Cayonu "Neolithic Copper Metallurgy in S.W. Asia" | box 5 |
| Cayonu Studies Presented to Halet Cambel | box 5 |
| Cayonu Photographs (1 of 2) | box 5 |
| Cayonu Photographs (2 of 2) | box 5 |
| Cayonu Negatives | box 6 |
| Cape Gelidonya Notes | box 6 |
| Cape Gelidonya Correspondence and Ingot Ms | box 6 |
| Cape Gelidonya Photographs (1 of 2) | box 6 |
| Cape Gelidonya Photographs with Notes (2 of 2) | box 6 |
| Goltepe AJA Review -James Muhly Article | box 6 |
| Kultepe Analysis (1 of 2) | box 6 |
| Kultepe Analysis (2 of 2) | box 6 |
| Lake Van Analysis | box 6 |
| Lake Van Bronze Metallurgy Studies | box 6 |
| Toprakkale Spearhead Figues and Notes | box 6 |
| Sardis Sample List/Analysis | box 6 |
| Sardis Iron Analysis Paper | box 6 |
| Sardis Investigation of Sardis Iron with Figures | box 6 |
| Sardis Photographs | box 6 |
| Various Sites List of Miscellaneous Samples | box 6 |
USA-USSR Exchange 1993
| Correspondence | box 6 |
| University of Pennsylvania Papers | box 6 |
| USA Papers | box 6 |
| USSR Papers (1 of 2) | box 6 |
| USSR Papers (2 of 2) | box 6 |
Miscellaneous
| Oman/Afghanistan Correspondence | box 6 |
| Cyprus/Israel Contact Sheets 1976 (various sites) | box 6 |
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