In This Issue

From the President

Letters

Newsbriefs
Romans in Ireland, New Texts from Qumran, Yaws Origin, Oldest Human DNA Isolated, Largest, Heaviest Book, Chalcolithic Cache, Medicinal Myrrh, Genesee Bonanza, Mycenaean Jewelry Goes Home, Jade Shroud Found, Field Notes

Insight
Sounding the Alarm
By James Wiseman

MIGHTY CAHOKIA
A major trading center whose influence extended across North America, Cahokia was in its day the greatest settlement north of Mexico.
By William R. Iseminger

EAST ST. LOUIS YIELDS A SATELLITE SETTLEMENT
By John E. Kelly

TRAVEL GUIDE TO
NORTH AMERICA
Compiled by Lara Asher

LURE OF THE DEEP
New technologies give scholars as well as treasure hunters access to the world's deepest wrecks.
By James P. Delgado

THE GUNS OF PALO ALTO
Battlefield surveys indicate that Mexican maps distorted the opening engagement of the Mexican-American War. Why?
By Charles M. Haecker

At the Museums
Foundry Fragments
By Angela M.H. Schuster

Multimedia
Surfing CD-ROMs
By Donald H. Sanders