Table of Contents	Volume 50 Number 3, May/June 1997

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In This Issue From the President Letters Insight Life at the Front By James Wiseman Newsbriefs Rare Cypriot Sculptures, Early Hominids in Siberia?, Blackbeard's Flagship, Roman Trade with the Canary Islands, Palaeolithic Archers?, World's Oldest Spears, Kennewick Update 1, Buried Bureaucratica, Shiloh Threatened, "The Fritz Ritz", Field Notes FACES FROM THE PAST First view of early humans from Spain's Pit of Bones By Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras IMAGING MAYA ART Infrared video "prospecting" of Bonampak's famous murals yields critical details no longer visible to the naked eye. By Mary Miller TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE LAND OF THE MAYA SPECIAL SECTION: HOMAGE TO OMAN REFLECTIONS ON AN ARABIAN KINGDOM'S ILLUSTRIOUS PAST Text by Spencer P.M. Harrington Photographs by Nicolas Sapieha

Rare Cypriot Sculptures   Faces from the Past   Imaging Maya Art   Homage to Oman

DIGGING IN THE LAND OF MAGAN By M. Redha Bhacker and Bernadette Bhacker THE DURABLE DHOW By Tom Vosmer ATLANTIS OF THE SANDS Southern Oman yields ruins of an ancient city on the fabled frankincense route. By Juris Zarins RE-CREATING A FRANKISH TOWN A fourteenth-century settlement in southern Greece is reborn using computer imaging. By P. Nick Kardulias, Timothy E. Gregory, and Mark A. Dann At the Museums Cambodia's Khmer Past By Ellen Herscher Books Rotten Apples: Sotheby's and the Antiquities Market By Mark Rose (Also check out ARCHAEOLOGY's listing of new books.) Multimedia Rise of the Hominids By Jean-Jacques Hublin Further Reading Forum An Unsinkable Story By John L. Cotter

Photos, from top: head of sixth-century B.C. sphinx from Cyprus (Cyprus Department of Antiquities); skull 5 from Spain's Pit of Bones (Javier Trueba/Madrid Scientific Films); detail of musician from Bonampak murals (Courtesy Mary Miller); detail of Nizwa Fort in Oman (Nicolas Sapieha).

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