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craftsofthepast.artfire.com

antiquesilverjewelry.blogspot.com

facingEASTdesigns.blogspot.com

bactria-margiana.blogspot.com

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Background on Ann Garner as a Collector of Cultural Artifacts in Western Asia, Arabia and Africa

Academic B. A. in English and German

Post Graduate Studies San Jose State - English and German

Sacramento State - Biblical Archeology

American Foreign Service Institute (while serving with U. S. Embassies in Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan and Cameroon) - Turkish, Farsi (Persian, Dari), Arabic and French

American Center for Oriental Research - Biblical Archeology and Stone Age Tool Typology

Personal Research - Art History, particularly the European Renaissance period and the Bronze Age in Central Asia. Field Experience - Survey of many sites in Jordan where Friends of the American Center for Oriental Research were allowed to collect specimens from the surface so long as they wrote an article that located the site and illustrated the specimens collected.

Academic Work in the Field - Wrote and illustrated two articles on Paleolithic tools collected in personal expedition in the Jordan Desert. Published in the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan in 1981 and 1982. Edited the English versions of two books on the Bactria-Margiana Archeological Complex by its discoverer and excavator, Dr. Victor Sarianidi. Titles: (1) Myths of Ancient Bactria - Margiana on its Seals and Amulets; (2) Margiana and Protozoroastrism.

Crafts of the Past on artfire.com welcomes you to the small museum that houses my collection of 50 years of acquiring vintage and antique decorative arts, and the ornaments and tools of antiquity. In addition, I will add handcrafted items that are reassembled from components of the older handiwork. All pieces will maintain the character of the former use of the ornament or tool. The items have been collected from California in the '50s and '60s, from Mexico, from Africa, from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere.