Table of Contents	Volume 56 Number 3, May/June 2003

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

Departments In This Issue "Alternative" Archaeology by Peter A. Young From the President Iraq Alert! by Jane C. Waldbaum Newsbriefs Bountiful Celtic Burials Stolen Sarcophagus Gourd Lord Dig before Depot Silk Road Theft Yo Ho Ho, and a Bottle of Vinum A Younger Mungo Man Crisis Archaeology Special Report: The Specter of War  Iraqi archaeologists and museum officials prepare by Joanne Farchakh Conversations: The WAC in Washington  Brian Fagan's sneak preview of the 5th World Archaeological Congress Letter from Bolivia: Coping with Chaos When civil disorder takes an archaeologist away from the trenches by Alexei Vranich

Cover Story Prehistory of Warfare Human beings have been at each others' throats since the dawn of the species by Steven A. LeBlanc SPECIAL SECTION Seductions of Pseudoarchaeology Far-Out Television What to think when Atlantis is just one click of the remote away by Garrett G. Fagan Pseudoscience in Cyberspace  In the Hall of Ma'at, fed-up archaeology buffs fight back by Kristin M. Romey Bogus Books A bestseller promotes a voyage of exploration too exciting to be true by Eric A. Powell

Features First Lady of Amazonia Betty Meggers is a strong-willed octogenarian with immovable beliefs about ancient cultures by Colleen P. Popson The Well-Dressed Dead Class has its privileges in the catacombs of Palermo by Bob Brier Guge: Tibet's Long-Lost Kingdom Archaeologists are rediscovering the glories of a great Tibetan dynasty, forgotten for centuries by Xiong Lei Mixed Messages A tomb on the Giza Plateau yields chewing-gum wrappers, a 1944 newspaper, and a 4,500-year-old burial by W. B. Hafford Further Reading Reviews An Inca Aspen Who Wants to Be a Legionnaire? Cloak and Trowel Classics in the City of Brotherly Love Cavemen on Camera You Call That Art? Editors' Picks

On the Cover: A Late Classic Period (A.D. 600-800) Maya warrior figurine from Jaina Island, Campeche, Mexico. Photo ©Justin Kerr

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