Table of Contents	Volume 50 Number 2, March/April 1997

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In This Issue From the President Letters Newsbriefs Ashkelon's Dead Babies, World's Oldest Stone Tools, Inigo Jones' Lost Portico, Homo erectus Survival, La Débâcle Chauvet, More Nineveh Fragments for Sale, Aucilla River Paleoindian Site, Alexandria Harbor Finds, Field Notes Special Report Ancient Seafarers New evidence of early Southeast Asian sea voyages By Peter Bellwood Insight Beyond the Danube's Iron Gates By James Wiseman JAPAN'S NEW PAST How a century of archaeology helped dispel a nation's mythic origins. By Walter Edwards TRAVEL GUIDE TO SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Compiled by Andrew Kasdan

Japan's New Past New York's Mythic Slum At the Museums: Ancient Sepphoris Multimedia: What's On Line? Part II

NEW YORK'S MYTHIC SLUM Digging lower Manhattan's infamous Five Points By Rebecca Yamin FIERY FINERY In ancient legends the combustible cloak was a weapon for exacting revenge. By Adrienne Mayor Books The First Americans By Brian M. Fagan (Also check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of books received.) At the Museums Ancient Sepphoris: Portrait of a Cosmopolitan City By Angela M.H. Schuster Multimedia What's On Line? Part II By Jessica E. Saraceni Further Reading Forum Beneath the Shifting Sands By Ernst Aebi

Photos, from top: detail of female courtier on wall painting in late seventh- or early eighth-century A.D. Japanese royal tomb (Ministry of Education, Agency of Cultural Affairs); photograph of a woman making a braided rug taken by Jacob A. Riis and published in his 1890 book, How the Other Half Lives; mosaic of a hunter from an early Byzantine municipal building at Sepphoris (Gaby Laron, Courtesy Hebrew University Expedition); artwork by Ray Bartkus.

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