Table of Contents	Volume 50 Number 5, September/October 1997

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In This Issue From the President Letters Insight In Vino Veritas By James Wiseman Newsbriefs Resurgent Resurgam, Neolithic Surgery, A New Species?, Neandertal DNA, New Import Agreements, Anasazi Cannibalism?, Sotheby's Chastened Prince of the Great Kurgan What happened to the Scythians after their defeat by Philip II? An unlooted tomb of a chieftain may hold the answers. By Jan Chochorowski and Sergei Skoryi Chieftain or Warrior Priestess? New evidence suggests that an ancient Saka nomad buried in a suit of gold may have been a woman. By Jeannine Davis-Kimball The Search for Site Q For years scholars have been looking for the source of an array of unprovenienced Maya sculptures in collections here and abroad. By Angela M.H. Schuster Mission to La Corona A new Maya site may fail to qualify as Site Q. By Ian Graham

Prince of the Great Kurgan   Maverick Mayanist   Cruising Lake Nasser   Letter from Ireland

A Run for Their Lives An archaeologist and his colleagues narrowly escape a mob of angry villagers. By Angela M.H. Schuster Plundering The Petén Sites in Northern Guatemala have been systematically looted for decades. Now the government is fighting back. By Richard D. Hansen Maverick Mayanist Ian Graham's crusade to record every Maya monument has earned him a place in the constellation of great Mesoamerican explorers. By John Dorfman and Andrew L. Slayman Cruising Lake Nasser A Journey Into Nubian Antiquity By Robert S. Bianchi Letter From Ireland Probing County Roscommon By Charles E. Orser, Jr. At the Museums Looking Through Roman Glass By David Whitehouse Books Redlining Anthropology By Joe Watkins Multimedia Feats Of Engineering By Andrew Szegedy-Maszak Forum Re-Inventing Eli Whitney By David R. Starbuck

Photos, from top: hearth in Scythian chieftain's burial tomb (Jan Chochorowski); Ian Graham (Richard Frank); map of Lake Nasser (Lynda D'Amico); excavation of tenant farmer's homesite in Ireland (Charles E. Orser, Jr.).

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