Table of Contents	Volume 53 Number 3, May/June 2000

The full texts of newsbriefs and selected longer articles are available
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In This Issue Order on the Pampa by Peter A. Young From the President Good News from the Courts by Nancy C. Wilkie Newsbriefs Developer Obliterates Site, Blames State; Salvage Operation Angers Tribe, Concerns White House; Rare Etruscan Wreck; Pharaoh in the Basement; Meteorite Custody Case; Shang City Uncovered; Gold Koran Returned; Bones in the Bathroom; Grotto Paintings Revealed; Tomb of King Snake Gourd; Ship Ahoist; Rome Exposed; Hoodoo Cache Insight Archaeology and History by James Wiseman At the Museums Ancient Chinese Treasures by Angela M.H. Schuster Athens' New Coin Museum by John H. Kroll Books "Look, Daddy, Oxen!" by Mark Rose Kennewick & Repatriation by Nicholas Nicastro Multimedia Time-Traveling Family by Christine Finn No Dirt on This Dig by Steven B. Mertens

"Seated People" of the Rain Forest  An "Extraordinary Folly"?  Letter from Newfoundland  Athens' New Coin Museum

"SEATED PEOPLE" OF THE RAIN FOREST Mysterious burial urns are found in caves deep within the Amazon jungle. by Bernadette Arnaud SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF THE NASCA LINES Forget about runways for ancient astronauts. These famous geoglyphs were paths meant to be walked in rituals related to the acquisition of water. by Anthony F. Aveni REVEALING MINOAN FASHIONS Cretan styles regain center stage. by Bernice R. Jones DEFIANT BRITAIN Mapping the bunkers and pillboxes built to stymie a Nazi invasion by Christine Finn AN "EXTRAORDINARY FOLLY"? New evidence suggests that Asia's greatest brick monument was not abandoned unfinished. by Donald M. Stadtner LETTER FROM NEWFOUNDLAND Homing in on the Red Paint People by Angela M.H. Schuster American Scene Parakeet to Paradise by David Mayer Gradwohl Forum The Curse of Kourion by David Soren

Photos, from top: Funerary urn (François Guenet/Eurelios); the Mingun pagoda (Donald M. Stadtner); Priscilla Renouf points to archaeological features (Angela M.H. Schuster); Heinrich Schliemann's mansion (Courtesy Ioannis Tourasoglou)

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