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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 51 Number 5, September/October 1998
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
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Backflap Sting
| Smugglers transported a rare Moche artifact, known as a backflap, from New York to Philadelphia where they offered to sell it to undercover FBI agents. |
To Farm, or Not to Farm
| The traditional view of the adoption of agriculture in the southwest United States and northwest Mexico may be too simple.
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New Skull from Eritrea
| A million-year-old skull bearing traits associated with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea. |
Gettysburg Battle
| Stiff opposition from two preservation groups has curtailed a National Park Service development plan for the Gettysburg National Military Park.
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Gansu Getaway
| A man Chinese authorities say robbed a rich Han Dynasty burial of a dazzling bronze candelabrum escaped from a Gansu Province jail after bribing a warden with 500,000 yuan. |
Colonial Dry Spell
| Tree-ring data suggest that a prolonged drought during the early colonial period in Virginia may have caused the collapse of the so-called Lost Colony of Roanoke and the near failure of the Jamestown settlement.
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Digging Old Brooklyn
| Excavation of a historic house in the Flatlands section of southeastern Brooklyn is yielding new information about the transition of early farming communities from rural villages to urban neighborhoods.
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Taíno Finds
| The well-preserved remains of a Taíno house have been found at Los Buchillones in Cuba's Ciego de Avila Province.
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Maya Past Protected
| After more than ten years of negotiation, a 4,000-acre tract of tropical rain forest straddling the Belize-Guatemala border has been set aside for conservation and preservation.
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