Index of Newsbriefs | Volume 55 Number 3, May/June 2002 |
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Latest News | Check out the latest news from ARCHAEOLOGY Online. |
Danger! Do NOT Dig Here | Using archaeological sites as historical analogues, the U.S. Department of Energy has designed markers to serve as a standard for future nuclear repositories. |
Liberty Bell Basher Pleads Guilty | Mitchell Guilliatt has pleaded guilty to damaging an archaeological resource. |
From Baghdad With Gold | For the first time since before the 1991 Gulf War, Western scholars have been able to marvel first-hand at a spectacular array of 2,800-year-old gold treasures from northern Iraq. |
Render Unto Ethiopia... | Ethiopian treasures remain in Great Britain despite efforts of the Ethiopian government to have them returned. |
Cave Couture | A population boom some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago may have given rise to some uniquely modern human behaviors. |
Hominids Go Nuts | While men in the Levant were out hunting 780,000 years ago, women were busy shelling pistachios and almonds to supplement their diet. |
Monumental Art | The governor of Utah has announced a campaign to designate the San Rafael Swell a national monument. |
Beachfront Bonanza | A Precolumbian Taino temple has been found at St. John National Park in the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
Shooting Up in the Old West | A late nineteenth-century syringe has given archaeologists an unprecedented glimpse of health care in the Old West. |
Straight Outta Brooklyn | A carved stone jaguar head seized by police from a Brooklyn garage in November 1999 is finally going home. |
Greek-U.S. Proposition | Greece is moving beyond buy-and-bust operations and ad-hoc cooperation between law enforcement agencies in fighting the illicit trade in antiquities. |
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