Table of Contents	Volume 59 Number 1, January/February 2006

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

Features Mysterious Mongolia Seeking clues to ancient nomadic life at the edge of the Arctic by Eric A. Powell A Native Take on Jamestown Four centuries later, the colony still provokes debate (and just what was the deal with Pocahontas?) by Sandra Scham In Search of Ancient Earthquakes Can archaeologists help predict the next big one? by Lois Wingerson Alexander, Piece by Piece Replicating a famous Roman mosaic by Marco Merola The Americas' First Colony? A possible Olmec outpost in southern Mexico by David Cheetham A City by the Sea Early urban planning on Mexico's Pacific coast by Jennifer Pinkowski

Departments In This Issue In the Land of the Reindeer Herders by Peter A. Young From the President 1906: A Remarkable Year for Archaeology  Celebrating the anniversary of two important acts of Congress by Jane C. Waldbaum News Lima's oldest (and headless) mummy, Rome has crabs, the Curse of Ötzi, the Oregon fort of Lewis and Clark, Harriet Tubman's army raid, and lions at the Tower of London Conversations Site Q Discovered!  Epigrapher Stanley Guenter on finally identifying Site Q, Maya archaeology's missing city Reviews The real David and Solomon, the Persian Empire rises again, Moche artifacts at Harvard, sepia-toned sites in the Mediterranean, Egypt's famous female pharaoh, rethinking the New World, and editors' picks Letter From the Southwest Guardians of the Past Volunteer stewards are crucial to protecting sites. by Deborah M. Norman

On the Cover: Dating to perhaps 900 B.C., this Bronze Age megalith in Mongolia's Hovskol region is one of more than 500 "deer stones" that dominate the archaeological landscape of the country's subarctic frontier. (Photograph by Thomas L. Kelly)

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