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Features
Banking on Stone Money
For the Yapese of Micronesia, a disk
of sculpted limestone could buy just about anything
by Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Kingdom of the Sands
How a Saharan slave-trading people made the desert bloom
by David Keys
Caring for the Dead
A curator of animal mummies finds a doorway into ancient Egyptian life
by Mark Rose
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A Warrior's Tomb
A routine excavation in a southern Italian cemetery reveals the richly painted sarcophagus of a forgotten warrior
by Jarrett A. Lobell
Past, Present, Future
Perceptions of time through the ages
by Dan Falk
Secrets in the Cinders
How Native Americans in the Southwest survived--and even profited from--an eleventh-century volcanic eruption
by Tom Gidwitz
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Departments
In This Issue
Hunter-Gatherer of News
by Peter A. Young
From the President
Gentleman and Scholar
by Jane C. Waldbaum
Special Report
Riding into the Afterlife
The U.K.'s best-preserved Iron Age chariot burial
Newsbriefs
Conversations
Fighting Fire in the Trenches
U.S. Forest Service archaeologist Daniel McCarthy on how to fight forest fires and safeguard archaeological sites at the same time
Reviews
Letter From Jerusalem
Hollywood Holy Land 
Mel Gibson says his movie presents the facts of Jesus' life, but does archaeology in the holy city back him up?
by Sandra Scham
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