Table of Contents	Volume 57 Number 2, March/April 2004

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

Features Banking on Stone Money For the Yapese of Micronesia, a disk of sculpted limestone could buy just about anything by Scott M. Fitzpatrick Kingdom of the Sands How a Saharan slave-trading people made the desert bloom by David Keys Caring for the Dead A curator of animal mummies finds a doorway into ancient Egyptian life by Mark Rose A Warrior's Tomb A routine excavation in a southern Italian cemetery reveals the richly painted sarcophagus of a forgotten warrior by Jarrett A. Lobell Past, Present, Future Perceptions of time through the ages by Dan Falk Secrets in the Cinders How Native Americans in the Southwest survived--and even profited from--an eleventh-century volcanic eruption by Tom Gidwitz

Departments In This Issue Hunter-Gatherer of News by Peter A. Young From the President Gentleman and Scholar by Jane C. Waldbaum Special Report Riding into the Afterlife The U.K.'s best-preserved Iron Age chariot burial Newsbriefs The Executioner's Moat Fetching Figurines Roman Cup Next Stop: Second Century A.D. WAC vs. the Wall Warming Up to Siberia Conversations Fighting Fire in the Trenches U.S. Forest Service archaeologist Daniel McCarthy on how to fight forest fires and safeguard archaeological sites at the same time Reviews Everyone Loves a Bloodbath Roots of the Vine Treasure Troves Moche Mug Shots Petra's Wealth Closing in on the Portland Editors' Picks Letter From Jerusalem Hollywood Holy Land  Mel Gibson says his movie presents the facts of Jesus' life, but does archaeology in the holy city back him up? by Sandra Scham

On the Cover: Tomb 50 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings contained the mummified bodies of a monkey (cover) and dog, possibly royal pets. Both are now displayed in a new exhibit of animal mummies in Cairo's Egyptian Museum. (©Anna-Marie Kellen)

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