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Table of Contents
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Volume 49 Number 3, May/June 1996
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Click on a newsbrief to read the full text,
or on a department or feature story to see an abstract.
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In This Issue
From the President
Letters
Newsbriefs
Romans in Ireland,
New Texts from Qumran,
Yaws Origin,
Oldest Human DNA Isolated,
Largest, Heaviest Book,
Chalcolithic Cache,
Medicinal Myrrh,
Genesee Bonanza,
Mycenaean Jewelry Goes Home,
Jade Shroud Found,
Field Notes
Insight
Sounding the Alarm
By James Wiseman
MIGHTY
CAHOKIA
A major trading center whose influence
extended across North America, Cahokia
was in its day the greatest settlement
north of Mexico.
By William R. Iseminger
EAST
ST.
LOUIS
YIELDS A
SATELLITE
SETTLEMENT
By John E. Kelly
TRAVEL
GUIDE TO
NORTH
AMERICA
Compiled by Lara Asher
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LURE OF THE
DEEP
New technologies give scholars as well as
treasure hunters access to the world's
deepest wrecks.
By James P. Delgado
THE
GUNS OF
PALO
ALTO
Battlefield surveys indicate that Mexican
maps distorted the opening engagement of
the Mexican-American War. Why?
By Charles M. Haecker
At the Museums
Foundry Fragments
By Angela M.H. Schuster
Multimedia
Surfing CD-ROMs
By Donald H. Sanders
Books
Who Were the Celts?
By Mark E. Hall
Further Reading
Forum
Surrogate Stone
By David and Noelle Soren
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Photos, from top: sandstone tablet from Cahokia, ca. A.D. 1300, Peter Bostrom; remotely operated vehicle Jason, Jr., courtesy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 1846 lithograph of the Battle of Palo Alto, courtesy the Library of Congress; screen from Ancient Lands, Microsoft.
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