Table of Contents	Volume 59 Number 5, September/October 2006

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

Features The Next 50 Years Will it be the Golden Age of Archaeology? by Brian Fagan Africa's First Bananas A new discovery peels back the history of our favorite fruit. by Peter Robertshaw Deconstructing a Maya Pyramid El Salvador rediscovers its past beneath a layer of concrete. by Roger Atwood Flights of Fancy In an early Etruscan tomb, an artist created an exotic bestiary by Marco Merola Opening Franco's Graves The victims of Spain's fascist past are beginning to tell their stories by Mike Elkin Egypt's Ageless Goddess A modern pilgrim visits the temple of Mut by Jennifer Pinkowski

Departments From the President The Benefits of Membership  Why you should join the AIA by Jane C. Waldbaum In This Issue Great Coverups by Peter A. Young News The first jewelry, a Forum find, suing Wal-Mart, natty legionnaires, blond mammoths, Persians and Kurds in China, from the Getty to Greece, and Nelson Mandela's gun Conversations Field of Dreams  Stuart Wilson on amateur archaeology and picnicking on your very own dig site Reviews "The Maya Paris," getting "civilised," Fagan on travel writing, revealing rubbish, stinking like the ancients, Jews and Jesus, and editors' picks Letter from Russian America Unearthing America's Czarist Heritage It was no "red dawn," but Russians had an early colonial foothold in America, trading furs and folktales.

On the Cover: This animal effigy, made of gilded copper by the Moche (A.D. 150-750), was found in the temple of the Moon in northern Peru. (Steve Bourget/Courtesy Santiago Uceda, Proyecto Arqueologico Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, Trujillo, Peru)

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