Table of Contents	Volume 50 Number 4, July/August 1997

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In This Issue From the President Letters Insight Legacy of Henry VIII By James Wiseman Newsbriefs Amphitheater Found, Earliest Agriculture in the New World, The French Built Stonehenge?, Imperial Tombs Mapped, World's Oldest Ship??, Roman Lioness in Scotland, Short-lived Ship, Unearthing Soviet Massacres, Umbrian Tombs, Field Notes MOSCOW RECLAIMS ITS PAST Excavation of settlement layers reaching back more than 850 years has sparked a reassessment of the city's early history. By Nicole Prevost-Logan THE MANEGE DIG By Alexander G. Veksler MYSTERY MONASTERIES By Leonid A. Beliaev CELEBRATING AN ISLAND HERITAGE Malta's world-acclaimed sites include its sixteenth-century capital city and the temples of a mysterious Neolithic culture. By Mark Rose

Earliest Agriculture in the World   Moscow Reclaims its Past   Celebrating an Island Heritage   Images of Conquest

RITUALS OF THE MODERN MAYA  A strong undercurrent of Precolumbian belief pervades much of today's religious practice. By Angela M. H. Schuster MEDIEVAL FOOTHOLD IN THE AMERICAS At La Isabela, Columbus sought to replicate a proper Spanish town. By Kathleen Deagan and José M. Cruxent IMAGES OF CONQUEST By Geoffrey Conrad, John Foster, Charles Beeker, Lynn Uhls, Mark Brauner, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, and Elpidio Ortega At the Museums Cyprus in Context Harvard's Semitic Museum unveils its Cesnola collection. By Ellen Herscher Books Bodies of the Bogs By Paul G. Bahn (Also check out ARCHAEOLOGY's listing of new books.) Multimedia Profiling an Unusual People The Calusa of Southern Florida By Charles Hudson Further Reading Forum Boyhood Dreams By Dale Mackenzie Brown

Photos, from top: 10,000-year-old squash seed from Oaxaca (Courtesy Science); replica of the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan on Red Square (Nicole Prevost-Logan); dome of the Cathedral of St. John in Valletta (Mark Rose); Taino pictograph of a bearded face in José Maria Cave (Charles Beeker).

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