ARCHAEOLOGY Table of Contents, September/October 1996


Table of Contents	Volume 49 Number 5, September/October 1996

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In This Issue

From the President

Letters

Insight
Wonders of Radar Imagery
By James Wiseman

Newsbriefs
Charlesfort Identified, Wind-Powered Furnaces, Maya King Unearthed, Neandertal News, Rare Buddhist Writings, Israel's Reburial Debate, World's Earliest Wine, Getty Gets Fleischman Collection, Pottery Bonanza, Jewelry Repatriated, Oldest North American Mummy, Celtic Masterpiece, The Mummies' Threads, Field Notes

The Great DNA Hunt
Genetic archaeology zeroes in on the origins of modern humans.
By Tabitha M. Powledge and
Mark Rose

Genealogy Of New Kingdom Pharaohs And Queens
By Scott Woodward

Dead Cities of the
Syrian Hill Country
The ruins of some 700 settlements have inspired romantic theories of sumptuous cities mysteriously abandoned.
By Clive Foss

12,000-year-old human bones from North Africa
The Great DNA
Hunt

17th-century illustration of soldier in Puerto Rico
Legacy of Fort
Mose

Colossal 5th-century A.D. Buddha head at Yungang, China
Buddhas of Cloud
Hill

6th-century A.D. incense burner from Caracol, Belize
A Mighty Maya
Nation

Legacy of Fort Mose
A Florida marsh yields the remains of colonial America's first free black settlement.
By Darcie MacMahon and
Kathleen Deagan

Buddhas of Cloud Hill
China's earliest cave-temples attest the imperial ambitions, religious sentiments, and sculptural artistry of a fledgling dynasty.
By James O. Caswell

A Mighty Maya Nation
How Caracol built an empire by cultivating its "middle class"
By Arlen F. Chase and
Diane Z. Chase

At the Museums
Faking It
By Angela M.H. Schuster

Books
Re-creating the Temple of Athena
By Spencer P.M. Harrington

Multimedia
Digitizing the Ancient Near East
By Neil Asher Silberman

Letter from Ontario
A Finite Iroquoian Legacy
By Brian Fagan

Further Reading

Forum
Classics for the Masses?
By Andrew Szegedy-Maszak

Photos, from top: 12,000-year-old human bones from North Africa in sealed vials (C. Munoz- Yague/Eurelios); seventeenth-century illustration showing a soldier in Puerto Rico (Archivo General de Indias, Seville); colossal fifth-century A.D. Buddha head at Yungang, China (Larry Gartenstein); and sixth-century A.D. incense burner from Caracol, Belize (R. Spencer, Caracol Archaeological Project).

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