Table of Contents	Volume 53 Number 1, January/February 2000

The full texts of newsbriefs and selected longer articles are available
online; abstracts of other departments and features are also available.

In This Issue Perspectives on the Past by Peter A. Young From the President Mycenaean Madness by Nancy C. Wilkie Newsbriefs Early Homo erectus Tools in China; Equus on Ice; Vandals Attack Rome, Again; Squash Down, Beans Up, Corn Steady; New Stones at Avebury; First Alphabet Found in Egypt; Early Iron Smelting; Georgian Homo erectus Crania Insight Roman Life on the Danube by James Wiseman American Scene Back at the Ranch by Katherine Drouin Keith At the Museums All That Glitters Is Scythian by Kristin M. Romey Books Ancient Wonders by Mark Rose Multimedia CNN's Millennium Project by Paul G. Bahn Exploring Egypt by Edward Bleiberg

Rome 2000   Pilgrimage to the Past   Early Homo erectus Tools in China

ROME 2000 The Eternal City celebrates the jubilee in grand imperial fashion. by Andrew L. Slayman ANTIQUARIAN DELIGHTS Rome unveils three splendid museums. by Stephen L. Dyson and Jennifer Trimble ROME 1-1000 A first-millennium tour of the Eternal City by Angela M.H. Schuster PILGRIMAGE TO THE PAST An African-American's lifelong search for identity by Chester Higgins Jr. SHENANDOAH'S SECRET HISTORY Archaeology shatters the stereotype of an impoverished, backward people. by Audrey J. Horning VISIONS OF TROY Centuries of travelers, artists, and cartographers have tried to envision the famous, yet elusive, citadel. by Elizabeth Riorden LETTER FROM DENMARK Hamlet Had It Wrong. by Elizabeth J. Himelfarb Forum Forgiveness in the Sweat Lodge by Christine Finn

Photos, from top: Forum of Trajan (Giovanni Lattanzi); Members of the St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn (© Chester Higgins Jr.); Stone tool from Renzidong Cave, China (© Russell Ciochon)

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