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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 49 Number 2, March/April 1996
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Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.
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Floods Threaten Thai
Monuments
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The worst floods in more than two decades have inundated
sites in northeastern Thailand, including the 600-year-old
ruins of Sukothai, the country's first capital.
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Repatriation
Standoff
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Eleven tribes are vying for burial rights to more than 1,000
Native American skeletons and accompanying funerary items
found in the Tonto National Forest 80 miles northeast of
Phoenix.
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Rock Art Saved
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Construction of the Foz Côa Dam, which threatened to
inundate more than 150 Palaeolithic engravings in
northeastern Portugal, has been halted.
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Museum Policy Change
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The J. Paul Getty Museum has changed its acquisitions policy
and will now purchase only antiquities with what it terms
well-documented provenance.
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Red Sea Wreck
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Investigation of a 165-foot-long ship that sank after hitting a
coral reef off Egypt's Red Sea coast is providing new
information about trade in the Ottoman period.
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Central African Hominid
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A 3.0- to 3.5-million-year-old australopithecine jaw
discovered in the Central African nation of Chad has prompted
a reassessment of early hominid evolution.
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Old Mobile Dispute
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Environmental and historic preservation groups have failed to
halt the development of an industrial park near the buried
remains of Old Mobile, an early eighteenth-century settlement
25 miles north of present-day Mobile, Alabama.
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Field Notes
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Smuggled Balkan Figurines?; Pensacola Graveyard;
Southwestern Archaeology Fetes; Chinese Tomb Find
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