Table of Contents	Volume 57 Number 1, January/February 2004

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

Features Egyptomania! What accounts for our intoxication with things Egyptian? by Bob Brier Seeds of Time How one woman's knack for extracting history from plant remains led to some startling conclusions about ancient people and the environments that sustained them by Steve Nash Nouvelle-France The legacy of North America's French colonists by Mark Rose Battles of Cerro Sechín Do carvings in northern Peru reflect ancient warfare or an Andean ritual practiced to this day? by Erica Hill City of Poseidon A muddy dig in the Corinthian coastal plain yields the remains of an ancient Greek city swallowed by the sea by Tom Gidwitz Osceola's Head Close encounters with a famed Seminole chief by Jerald T. Milanich Further Reading

Departments In This Issue Perfect to a Fault by Peter A. Young From the President Happy Birthday, AIA! by Jane C. Waldbaum Newsbriefs Detecting Two Fantastic Finds Chaco's Far-Flung Corn Fields Come to Light Make Way for the Old Deep-Sea Duel Move Over Venus Kensington Runestone Goes to Sweden Albanian Synagogue Surfaces A Puzzling Wreck Credit the Greeks! Building Trust in Iraq  Manhattan assistant district attorney and Marine Corps colonel Matthew Bogdanos on tracking down the looted artifacts of the Iraq National Museum Reviews A Brilliant Past in Berlin Giant Leap for Humankind Hordes of Fun Human History in a Nutshell Painting the Classics Mammothland Earliest Masterpieces Editors' Picks Letter From Switzerland: Theme Park of the Gods A theme park in the heart of the Swiss Alps celebrates ancient achievements as the handiwork of aliens by Eric A. Powell

On the Cover: A sphinx guards the mausoleum of merchant-prince F.W. Woolworth (1852-1919), who made a fortune with his five-and-dime stores. Like Woolworth, many of New York's wealthiest were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx and chose monuments with Egyptian architectural and sculptural styles. (©Douglas Keister/www.keisterphoto.com)

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