In This Issue
Assault on Afghan Heritage
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For more than 20 years, Nancy Hatch Dupree has crusaded to
save Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage. By Peter A. Young
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From the President
Renewing a Critical Dialogue
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The role of public education in shaping the first
American museums, such as the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, has once
again become central. By Stephen L. Dyson
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Letters
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Oh, Those Brutish Neandertals; Salient Thoughts
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Special Report
Excavating MIAs
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Twenty years after the fall of Saigon there are 2,162
American servicemen missing, presumably dead--1,613 in
Vietnam, and the rest in Laos, Cambodia, and China. The Joint
Task Force-Full Accounting's effort to find them, conducted by
recovery teams of Americans and Vietnamese (and their
counterparts in Laos and Cambodia), relies on standard
archaeological and forensic methods of investigation. The
author describes the investigation of Case 0642,
the loss of a Marine Corps A-4E Skyhawk near Que Son; and
Case 0020, a T-28 trainer that crashed near the Vietnam-Laos
border during a reconnaissance mission in 1963. By Brenda
Smiley
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Insight
To Your Health!
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One of ARCHAEOLOGY's contributing
editors reviews what recent research and ancient authors
have to say about the early history of wine making. By James
Wiseman
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At the Museums
The Elusive Olmec
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The largest exhibition of Olmec art ever
assembled underscores the fact that our understanding
of the Olmec is based almost entirely on the study of
unprovenienced artifacts. The Olmec World: Ritual
and Rulership was at the Art Museum at Princeton
University until February 25, and will be at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, from April 14 through June 9. Reviewed by
Angela M.H. Schuster
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Books
The Genius of Hadrian
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The first comprehensive modern study of Hadrian's Villa in
English points to the need for a proper map of the site and an
all-out effort to save it from vandals and the vagaries of time.
Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy, by William L.
MacDonald and John A. Pinto. 392 pages. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1995. $55.00. ISBN 0-300-05381-9.
Reviewed by Alexander Wallace
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Multimedia
Saving a Critical Legacy
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A video about the destruction of Native American
archaeological sites in the Southwest is not currently
available because budget cuts have prevented the National
Park Service from producing more copies. Silent
Witness: Protecting American Indian Archeological
Heritage. 1994. Produced and Directed by Lee Luce Lysne.
Color, 31 minutes. Reviewed by Peter S. Allen
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Forum
Guidespeak
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A tour guide's tall tale contains hints of a Phrygian cultic rite.
By Jessica E. Saraceni
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