Table of Contents	Volume 60 Number 1, January/February 2007

Features Messages from the Dead Inside the final days of a doomed Bronze Age city by Marco Merola The New Face of Evolution A 3.3-million-year-old child raises the question: Did our early ancestors walk or climb their way to becoming human? by Zach Zorich Mapping an Underwater World Digital modeling re-creates submerged Neolithic riverscapes by Mike Pitts Hiking with Hannibal Hot on the icy trail of an ancient general by Ulrich Boser Peru's Mummy Dogs Are the country's beloved pets descendants of ancient llama herders? by Roger Atwood The Last Invasion A forgotten Georgia fort marks the final foreign occupation of the mainland U.S. by Mike Toner The Lure of Móo A Victorian archaeologist's obsession with a fictitious Maya queen by Sean McDaniel

Departments From the President Passing the Torch A new president takes the helm by Jane C. Waldbaum In This Issue Our New Look by Peter A. Young Letters Claims of brutality, German Junkers, pale and toussled Neanderthals, and life in a stack-clan From the Trenches Top 10 discoveries, things to do with your body when you're dead, early autopsy, cursed Egyptian dentists, an angry Aztec rain god, Jamestown revisited, ancient horse manure, Russian mafia mammoths, reburying Pompeii, Ukrainian pyramids, and a bevy of Syrian finds Conversation The technical advisor behind Apocalypto talks about Mel Gibson, murder, and the Maya Insider Archaeologists put their careers on the line to work in political no-go zones Commentary Reshaping Waterloo: history, archaeology, and the European heritage industry What We Learn A big block of the New World's first written language

On the Cover: 3.3-million-year-old afarensis child found in Ethiopia (Reuters/Euan Denholm)

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