Table of Contents	Volume 51 Number 5, September/October 1998

The full texts of newsbriefs and selected longer articles are available
on line; abstracts of other departments and features are also available.

In This Issue Newsbriefs Backflap Sting, To Farm, or Not to Farm, New Skull from Eritrea, Gettysburg Battle, Gansu Getaway, Colonial Dry Spell, Digging Old Brooklyn, Taíno Finds, Maya Past Protected From the President Insight Reforming Academia by James Wiseman Multimedia Decades of Make Believe by Jon Solomon At the Museums Tarnished Reputations by Ellen Herscher Books Readings in American Archaeology by Gordon R. Willey Re-examining Prehistory by Colin Renfrew Forum Remembering 1948 by John L. Cotter

The New Maya   50 Years of Discovery   The Not-So-Dark Ages

FIFTY YEARS OF DISCOVERY How archaeology has reconfigured the human past by Brian Fagan DIGGING IN THE LAND OF THE BIBLE Our understanding of the Israelites, Canaanites, and other biblical peoples has been transformed beyond recognition. by Neil Asher Silberman THE NEW MAYA Having dispelled the myth of a model society led by gentle priest-kings, scholars are piecing together a fresh picture of the rise and fall of a complex civilization. by T. Patrick Culbert RETHINKING MODERN HISTORY Historical archaeology has critically altered our understanding of colonization, the growth of cities, and the lives of disenfranchised people. by Kathleen Deagan THE NOT-SO-DARK AGES The post-Roman world was considerably more vibrant than we've been led to believe. by Richard Hodges

Photos, from top: Nineteenth-century rendering of the Castillo at Chichén Itzá; discoveries from the past 50 years (Monica Stevenson); monastery at San Vincenzo al Volturno (Courtesy Richard Hodges)

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