Departments, January/February 1999 - Archaeology Magazine Archive


Departments	Volume 52 Number 1, January/February 1999

In This Issue
Rescuing the Past The environmental perils facing Knossos are echoed the world over.
by Peter A. Young

From the President
A Romantic Notion Our goal must be to mitigate damage and perhaps to refrain from excavating certain sites altogether.
by Nancy C. Wilkie

Insight
The Muse Within Us Poetic visions of the past
by James Wiseman

Books
Neolithic Noah Are the claims of two geologists all wet? (Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History, William Ryan and Walter Pitman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).
Reviewed by Mark Rose (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's bookstore for the latest list of new books.)

At the Museums
Ötzi's New Home The 5,000-year-old Iceman goes on exhibit in Bolzano, Italy.
by Neil Asher Silberman (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of museum exhibitions.)

Multimedia
Simulated Caesars Civilization III (Sid Meier. Microprose Software, Inc., 1996); Age of Empires (Ensemble Studios. Microsoft, Inc., 1997); and Caesars III (David Lester. Sierra Online, Inc., 1998).
reviewed by Nicholas Nicastro.

Forum
Faux Maya Xcaret, an eco-archaeological park near Cancún, Mexico, aims to entertain visitors through education.
by Angela M.H. Schuster.

In This Issue Rescuing the Past	The environmental perils facing Knossos are echoed the world over. by Peter A. Young
From the President A Romantic Notion	Our goal must be to mitigate damage and perhaps to refrain from excavating certain sites altogether. by Nancy C. Wilkie
Insight The Muse Within Us	Poetic visions of the past by James Wiseman
Books Neolithic Noah	Are the claims of two geologists all wet? (Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History, William Ryan and Walter Pitman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998). Reviewed by Mark Rose (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's bookstore for the latest list of new books.)
At the Museums Ötzi's New Home	The 5,000-year-old Iceman goes on exhibit in Bolzano, Italy. by Neil Asher Silberman (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of museum exhibitions.)
Multimedia Simulated Caesars	Civilization III (Sid Meier. Microprose Software, Inc., 1996); Age of Empires (Ensemble Studios. Microsoft, Inc., 1997); and Caesars III (David Lester. Sierra Online, Inc., 1998). reviewed by Nicholas Nicastro.
Forum Faux Maya	Xcaret, an eco-archaeological park near Cancún, Mexico, aims to entertain visitors through education. by Angela M.H. Schuster.