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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 50 Number 1, January/February 1997
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
Latest News
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Check out the latest news from ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
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Origins of Syphilis
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New studies by paleopathologists Bruce and Christine Rothschild of the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio favor a New World origin for syphilis, which has long been debated.
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Egyptian Tomb in Israel
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Discovery of an unusual tomb at Tel Halif in the Negev Desert suggests an early Egyptian colonial presence in southern Israel.
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Pakistani Petroglyphs
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A proposed dam on the Indus River threatens more than 30,000 rock carvings near the village of Chilas in the Karakoram mountain range of northern Pakistan.
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Earliest Remains of Genus Homo
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Paleoanthropologists have discovered a 2.33-million-year-old upper jaw of the genus Homo at Hadar, Ethiopia, pushing back the human time line by more than 400,000 years.
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Field Notes
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Souvaltzi's Permit Revoked, Antinous Statue Found, Madrid Palace Bulldozed, Sardis Head Find, Irish Megalithic Art
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