Table of Contents	Volume 58 Number 2, March/April 2005

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

Features Thracian Gold Fever Archaeologist and showman Georgi Kitov's spectacular discoveries raise questions about managing Bulgaria's past by Matthew Brunwasser Last Great Capital of the Maya by Susan Milbrath Freeing Captive History The hunt for evidence of slavery in the North by Tom Gidwitz The Lost Goddess of Israel by Sandra Scham The Polynesian Connection Did ancient Hawaiians teach California Indians how to make ocean-going canoes? by Blake Edgar Queen of the Novel Eminent scholar and best-selling author Barbara Mertz holds forth on the wonders of the Nile by Mark Rose

Departments From the President Call of the Sea  A tribute to a master of maritime studies by Jane C. Waldbaum In This Issue No End of Surprises by Peter A. Young Special Report Did Thames Wreck Take on the Armada?  by David Keys News Human sacrifice at Teotihuacan, Britain's Roman racetrack, scanning Tut, the world's oldest flute, squirrels menace ruins, and more Conversations Forgery Fallout  Eric Meyers on how the recent flurry of faked artifacts will change the face of biblical archaeology Reviews Hieroglyphic homework, Tolkien's ancient inspiration, playing a Roman general, Iraq's Chinese ties, Middle-America's wonders, and editors' picks Letter From Alaska Aleuts and the Sea Archaeology is helping to make a difference in the lives of Aleut fishermen by Herbert Maschner and Katherine Reedy-Maschner

On the Cover: This masterfully cast bronze head, severed from a full-length statue and buried in a pit more than two millennia ago, may portray the powerful Thracian king Seuthes III, who ruled in what is now Bulgaria in the late fourth and early third centuries B.C. (© Raphaël Gaillarde/Gamma)

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