In This Issue
From the President
Letters
Newsbriefs
Ashkelon's Dead Babies, World's Oldest Stone Tools, Inigo Jones' Lost Portico, Homo erectus Survival, La Débâcle Chauvet, More Nineveh Fragments for Sale, Aucilla River Paleoindian Site, Alexandria Harbor Finds, Field Notes
Special Report
Ancient Seafarers
New evidence of early Southeast Asian sea voyages
By Peter Bellwood
Insight
Beyond the Danube's Iron Gates
By James Wiseman
JAPAN'S
NEW PAST
How a century of archaeology helped dispel a nation's mythic origins.
By Walter Edwards
TRAVEL GUIDE TO
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Compiled by Andrew Kasdan |
NEW
YORK'S MYTHIC SLUM
Digging lower Manhattan's infamous Five Points
By Rebecca Yamin
FIERY
FINERY
In ancient legends the combustible cloak was a weapon for exacting revenge.
By Adrienne Mayor
Books
The First Americans
By Brian M. Fagan
(Also check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of books received.)
At the Museums
Ancient Sepphoris: Portrait of a Cosmopolitan City
By Angela M.H. Schuster
Multimedia
What's On Line? Part II
By Jessica E. Saraceni
Further Reading
Forum
Beneath the Shifting Sands
By Ernst Aebi |