Table of Contents	Volume 53 Number 2, March/April 2000

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In This Issue Reluctant Bedfellows by Peter A. Young From the President The Envelope, Please... by Nancy C. Wilkie Newsbriefs Roman Coin Cache Discovered; Vintage Altar of Heaven; Cold War Monument; Jerusalem's Temple Mount Flap; Roman Villa under Vatican Parking Lot; It's Official: Kennewick Man Goes Native; Coeur de France; Data Loss in Flag Fen Conflagration; City Hall Bones Update; Jousting over the Parthenon Marbles; Casualties of the Chechen War; Unique Egyptian Temple Complex; Wine Lover's Guide to Ancient Britian; The Face of Colonial Albany Portuguese Petroglyphs Insight Poetic Visions of the Past by James Wiseman American Scene "This Ain't the English Department" by Carol I. Mason At the Museums Wonders of Ur by Ellen Herscher Books Lost Continent by John Edward Terrell Multimedia Play it Again, Seti by Nicholas Nicastro Olympics Through Time by David Gilman Romano Forum The Pride of Poland by Nicholas Nicastro

Archaeology's Proper Place   Wonders of Ur   Digging in the City of Light

SUBWAY TO THE PAST A new metro system spurs an excavation of unprecedented size. by Yannis N. Stavrakakis FALLEN HEROS Bones of Pericles' soldiers come to New York for analysis by Mark Rose FABRIC OF TIME A 2,000-year-old Peruvian textile offers evidence of early Andean calendrical systems. by Darrell S. Gundrum DIGGING IN THE CITY OF LIGHT Irrepressible and irreverent, Michel Fleury has spent a lifetime excavating and preserving medieval Paris. by Spencer P.M. Harrington A TIME OF GIANTS AND MONSTERS The discovery of huge bones in antiquity spawned vivid and imaginative myths. by Adrienne Mayor COMMENTARY: ARCHAOLOGY AND HISTORY'S UNEASY RELATIONSHIP ARCHAEOLOGY'S PERILOUS PLEASURES An eminent historian reflects on some uses and misuses of the past. by David Lowenthal ARCHAEOLOGY'S PROPER PLACE A field archaeologist replies to David Lowenthal's "musings from his study." by Christopher Chippindale

Photos, from top: Painting by Elaine Upton (Courtesy Christopher Chippindale); lyre found at Ur (Photograph courtesy University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology); Michel Fleury (Courtesy Michel Fleury)

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