In This Issue
Rethinking the Civil War |
One of the great misconceptions about the Civil War is that its outcome was determined on the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
by Peter A. Young |
From the President
Cosa Anniversary |
Scholars from Europe and the United States gathered in mid-May at the American Academy in Rome to celebrate the fiftieth year of excavations at the Tuscan site of Cosa.
by Stephen L. Dyson |
Insight
Eagle Eye at NASA |
Tom Sever has championed the role of aerial and satellite imagery in preserving the Guatemalan jungle and its ancient sites.
by James Wiseman. |
Books
Here's Looking at You |
Reconstructing ancient faces (Making Faces, John Prag and Richard Neave. 256 pages. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. $39.95. ISBN 0-89096-784-9.)
Reviewed by Wijnand Van Der Sanden (Check
out ARCHAEOLOGY's bookstore for the latest list
of new books.) |
At the Museums
Thracian Glitter |
A dazzling display of ancient art
by Susan I Rotroff (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's
latest list of museum exhibitions.) |
Multimedia
Power Places |
A photographer's vision of sites that link the secular with the sacred is reviewed by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak.
Keepers of the Spirit. (Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing Co., 1993) |
Forum
Corpse in the Curiosity Shop |
The history of an ancient Egyptian mummy at Nonesuch House of antiques in Wiscasset, Maine
by Andrew L. Slayman. |
