Table of Contents	Volume 53 Number 4, July/August 2000

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In This Issue Did They or Didn't They? by Peter A. Young From the President The Numbers Are In... by Nancy C. Wilkie Newsbriefs Five-Star Inn with Great Art; Good News from Iraq; Sexy Skull Find; Rhodes' Colossal Contest; Gold from the Bronze Age; Prehistoric Body Painting; Cahokia Joyride; Detroit, Next Exit; Sarcophagus Comes Home; Caesars Big Dig; Upscale Iron Age Village; Domain Dispute; Beware of Dogs Facing West; Protecting Panama Insight An American Presence in Greece by James Wiseman Books New Triumphs for "General" Cesnola by Ellen Herscher At the Museums Three cheers for the Vikings! by Judith Lindbergh Multimedia Reanimating Rome by Nicholas Nicastro The Virtual Silk Road by Shareen Blair Brysac

Earth Explorer  Mystery Stelae  New Triumphs for "General" Cesnola  Five-Star Inn with Great Art

FATE OF THE NEANDERTALS Our robust cousins interbred with modern humans, a preeminent European archaeologist argues. by João Zilhão PRIVY BUSINESS Chamber pots and sexpots in colonial life by Mary Ellin D'Agostino EARTH EXPLORER In his study of the human past buried in ash, volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson has hacked through jungles, paddled across boiling lakes, and ridden submarines to the bottom of the sea. by Tom Gidwitz MYSTERY STELAE Are stone images found in southeastern Turkey evidence of early nomads and a lost kingdom? by Veli Sevin CONFESSIONS OF A CRUISE LECTURER Notes from the floating desk of a seasoned guest professor by David Soren LETTER FROM FLORIDA Why scholars are ambivalent about Clarence Bloomfield Moore by Jerald T. Milanich American Scene Fourth in the Field by Kristin M. Romey Forum To the Barricades! by Michel Faure

Photos, from top: Volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson (Courtesy Haraldur Sigurdsson); stelae found in Hakkâri (Courtesy Veli Sevin); Cesnola with statue from his excavations on Cyprus (Courtesy The Cultural Centre of the Popular Bank Group, Cyprus); winged Minerva fresco (David Willey)

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