Anthropology/archeology/folklore

Abstracts: A different history. Uncovering ancient Thailand. Picture perfect: how an ingenious former fashion photographer managed to capture on film the mind and spirit of the ancient Maya

Abstracts: Afield in Abydos: Paleolithic fieldwork takes shape. Held in the archives. From the archives: the inventor and the sultan

Abstracts: Ages of Albania. Myth in marble. Voices from the ashes

Abstracts: A hidden discipline. Many happy returns. Passing the torch

Abstracts: A host of would-be conquerors: few traces remain of Spain's early attempts to colonize the Atlantic and Gulf coasts

Abstracts: A hundred years at South Abydos; reconstructing the Temple of Pharasoh Senwosret III. The excitement of first discovery: South Abydos 1899-1903

Abstracts: Alaska's first settlements. In the footsteps of the Norse. All about Eve

Abstracts: A legacy of wanton thievery: outnumbered by pot hunters, federal undercover agents seek to curb a frenzy of looting before relics of the Native American past vanish forever

Abstracts: Alexander piece by piece. Rescued Frescoes. Flights of fancy

Abstracts: Alexander's tomb...not! Diving on a sunken city: ancient Alexandria yields a wealth of pharaonic and Ptolemaic sculpture

Abstracts: All that glitters is Scythian; a long overdue look at the treasures of Ukraine. Aim, fire, thwock! Atlatl devotees show off their stuff

Abstracts: American academic and public folklore: late-twentieth-century musings. Disengagement by engagement: Volkskunde in a period of change

Abstracts: A model exhibition. Lure of the field. Selective preservation

Abstracts: A monumental feud. Scots on the rocks. A river rising

Abstracts: Anasazi in the backyard: controversy dogs America's first archaeological subdivision. The dawn of art

Abstracts: Anatomy of a massacre: an unpublished 1950s excavation and more recent skeletal analysis yield graphic new details about the slaughter of a British garrison during the French and Indian War

Abstracts: Ancient Sepphoris: portrait of a cosmopolitan city. The elusive Olmec: a new exhibition underscores the paucity of provenienced objects

Abstracts: Antioch in antiquity. Was there a Trojan war?. Mystery stelae

Abstracts: Archaeology and history in the Royal Acropolis, Copan, Honduras. The Margarita tomb at Copan, Honduras: a research update

Abstracts: Archaeology in Cyprus. Archeaology in Cyprus. Many happy returns? New contributions to the repatriation debate

Abstracts: Archaeology in Jordan

Abstracts: Archaeology in Turkey

Abstracts: Archaeology's dirty secret. Art of the shamans: a celebration of West Mexican sculpture. Taming the aurochs

Abstracts: Archaeology: the next 50 years. Fighting fire in the trenches: an archaeologist battles seasonal blazes in an effort to save endangered sites

Abstracts: A Roman town cemetery at Gordion, Turkey. Celts at Gordion: the late Hellenistic settlement. From Phrygian capital to rural fort: new evidence for the Roman military at Gordion, Turkey

Abstracts: Ashkelon's dead babies. The enlightened archaeologist. Writing collaborative history; how the Monacan Nation and archaeologists worked together to enrich our understanding of Virginia's native peoples

Abstracts: A tale of the bones: Animal use in the temple and town of Wah-Sut. Egypt's well-to-do elite mansions in the town of Wah-Sut

Abstracts: A thoroughly modern mummy; experimental archaeology - step by gruesome step, the Egyptian way. Case of the dummy mummy

Abstracts: A walk through time. The arrogant archaeologist. Alaska's first settlements

Abstracts: A walk through time: the Nubia Museum at Aswan chronicles one of Africa's most influential cultures. Ancient ancestors? Kenyan fossils complicate the picture of early hominid evolution

Abstracts: A woman's place: in Classical Greece, an untamed female was a threat to society. Pasture to polis

Abstracts: Battling the brick lobby. Sea change in classical archaeology. The TV challenge

Abstracts: Beneath the Mountain-of-Anubis: Ancient Egypt's first hidden royal tomb. Egypt's late middle kingdom in microcosm

Abstracts: Beyond the Danube's Iron Gates: rescue archaeology on the Roman frontier. Roman life on the Danube; a legionary town becomes an archaeological park

Abstracts: Birthplace of American booze: celebrating Washington's own whiskey distillery. The turquoise trail: Did an extensive trade network link the American Southwest with Mesaomerica?

Abstracts: Borrowed legacy: Royal tombs S9 and S10 at South Abydos. Food fit for the soul of a pharaoh: The mortuary temple's bakeries and breweries

Abstracts: Botanical and faunal remains from Tell es-Sweyhat. Date sex in Mesopotamia! Tell es-Sweyhat, 1989-1995: a city in northern Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium B.C

Abstracts: Brazil's little Angola. 50 years of discovery: how archaeology has reconfigured the human past. Enlightened stewardship

Abstracts: Bronze from Ban Chiang, Thailand: a view from the laboratory. The Celts and urbanization: the enduring puzzle of the oppida

Abstracts: Builders of the pyramids: excavations at Giza yield the settlements and workshops of three generations of laborers

Abstracts: Building bridges: folklore in the academy. Folklore as transdisciplinary dialogue. Folklore and liberal learning

Abstracts: Cambodia's Khmer past: an exhibition opening at the National Gallery highlights the cultural legacy of a war-torn country

Abstracts: Celebrating an island heritage: Malta's world-acclaimed sites include its sixteenth-century capital city and the temples of a mysterious Neolithic culture

Abstracts: Chaco Canyon in cyberspace. Channeling archaeology

Abstracts: Closing the ignorance gap; Florida's once neglected history and prehistory now get top billing in K-12 textbooks statewide

Abstracts: Colonizing the Americas: DNA studies now indicate the first Americans came from Asia in a single migration. The great DNA hunt

Abstracts: Colorado Coalfield Massacre. Far-out television: what to think when Atlantis is just one click of the remote away

Abstracts: Colorful cotton! Treasures of the Indus: a rare collection of jewelry and sculpture makes its American debut. Tales from the crypt; a descent into the Tomb of Osiris

Abstracts: Coping with chaos. Solstice at the stones: for Britain's modern-day pagans, sites like Stonehenge are sacred ground

Abstracts: Coring ancient Rome. Legacy in stone. When gluttony ruled!

Abstracts: Crisis in Near Eastern studies? American archaeologists in the Levant are an endangered species according to one distinguished scholar

Abstracts: "Cultural brokerage" and "public folklore" within a German and American field of discourse. Time and ourselves - the discomforts of reflexive disciplinary history: response to Wolfgang Kaschuba

Abstracts: Cultural revolutionary. Who's buried in St. Paul's tomb?. China's great enigma: What's inside the unexcavated tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi?

Abstracts: Damming Sudan. Hiking with Hannibal. Back from the brink

Abstracts: Daniel J. Crowley (1921-98). Fred B. Kniffen's milestones in American folklife study

Abstracts: David D. Buchan (1939-1994). Warren E. Roberts (1924-99). Americo Paredes (1915-99)

Abstracts: Declaration of independence; the case for autonomous archaeology departments at American colleges and universities

Abstracts: Decoding the megaliths: a young scholar searches for the meaning of Malta's ancient temples. Mystery mummy: a royal body may be that of Rameses I, but can we ever be sure?

Abstracts: Defiant Britain; mapping the bunkers and pillboxes built to stymie a Nazi invasion. Forgiveness in the sweat lodge

Abstracts: Dendrochronology. Radiocarbon calibration: current issues. Radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry

Abstracts: Did Thames Wreck take on the Armada? The executioner's moat. Pre-Christian rituals at Nazareth

Abstracts: Digging in the land of the Bible. Timor's safe havens: how caves helped shape the history of the world's newest nation

Abstracts: Digitizing the ancient Near East. Armageddon, Megiddo, and the end of the world. Digging at Armageddon

Abstracts: Disengagement by engagement: Volkskunde in a period of change. How big is our subject? Brokering disciplinary and national cultures

Abstracts: Displaying dialogues - the contingencies of collaboration: response to Frank Korom. Empowerment through representation and collaboration in museum exhibitions

Abstracts: Divergent paths: on the evolution of "folklore" and "folkloristics."(A Forum on the Term "Folklore") Folkloristics as an interstitial practice: response to Mary Hufford

Abstracts: Diving into history. Conversations: saved by sand. Assault on tradition: a UNESCO nomination compels a second look at the surprising history of gritty, industrial Liverpool

Abstracts: Early church at Aqaba. Faking African art. Saga of the Persian princess

Abstracts: Early Transcaucasian cultures and their neighbors: Unraveling migration, trade, and assimilation. One of Iraq's earliest towns: excavating Tepe Gawra in the museum archives

Abstracts: Eighth wonder of the world: a perilous journey through Pakistan's rugged mountains along a branch of the ancient Silk Road

Abstracts: Ekron identity confirmed: a unique royal inscription offers clues to early Philistine history. Jerusalem's Temple Mount flap

Abstracts: Elijah Pierce, woodcarver. La sirena encantadora: the mermaid in Mexican folk art and legend. The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do

Abstracts: Elusive libraries of Timbuktu: scholars seek West Africa's medieval past in the city's little known manuscripts

Abstracts: Equus on ice. First farmers; a unique Syrian site, flooded after completion of a dam, yielded evidence of one of the world's oldest settlements

Abstracts: Ethiopian Folk Art: The Leavitt Collection. Response. The Assam dragon: folklore and folkloristics in India's long-closed Northeast Frontier

Abstracts: Excavating MIAs: archaeologists probe Vietnam crash sites for remains of U.S. pilots. Hounding the dead; a remarkable Michigan mutt sniffs out ancient human remains

Abstracts: Exploring South America: rich and diverse, this region of the world has become a unique laboratory for studying human cultural evolution

Abstracts: Extreme sport: once the game of Maya kings and Aztec warriors, ulama lives on in the dusty playing fields of western Mexico

Abstracts: Fiery finery: in ancient legends the combustible cloak was a weapon for exacting revenge. A time of giants and monsters; the discovery of huge bones in antiquity spawned vivid and imaginative myths

Abstracts: Finding the original home of the museum's Brahma. What was there before the museum? People, places and projects

Abstracts: First Heyerdahl, now Hollywood. Moving the moai; transporting the megaliths of Easter Island: how did they do it?

Abstracts: Folk-topical recordings and American left-wing politics. Producing blues recordings. "Cielos del Norte, Alma del Rio Arriba": Nuevo Mexicano folk music revivals, recordings 1943-98

Abstracts: Forgery fallout. Getting inside skulls. Mel Gibson's Maya

Abstracts: Freeing captive history. Secrets in the Cinders: how Native Americans in the Southwest survived-and even profited from- an eleventh-century volcanic eruption

Abstracts: Gallery in situ: Copan's new museum highlights sculptural treasures and a sophisticated Maya cosmology. On the healer's path; a journey through the Maya rain forest

Abstracts: Gems from the Silk Road: an exhibition of artifacts almost entirely unknown in the West. The virtual silk road

Abstracts: Getty gets Fleischman collection. Diving at ground zero. Diving on the Titanic

Abstracts: Gift, offering, and reciprocity: personalized remembrance and the "small finds." (includes bibliography) (Gifts to the Goddesses: Cyrene's Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone)

Abstracts: Greece sues for Mycenaean gold. Queen of the novel. Fallen heroes; Bones of Pericles' soldiers come to New York for analysis

Abstracts: Guidespeak. Civil War in the West. What's on line? Digging into the World Wide Web

Abstracts: Hamlet had it wrong; a journey through medieval Denmark flips the switch on the "Dark Ages." The Gospels' holiest sanctum

Abstracts: Holly Pittman. Paleolithic archeology: the search for our human heritage. Middle Egypt in prehistory: a search for the origins of modern human behavior and human dispersal

Abstracts: Homage to Oman: reflections on an Arabian kingdom's illustrious past. An endangered sanctuary

Abstracts: Homeless collections. Taino encounters; New York's Museo del Barrio showcases the first Caribbean islanders. Occupational hazards; oh, the risks in store for the unwary archaeologist

Abstracts: Horace's healing spring: scholars unveil a cold-water spa possibly patronized by the Roman poet and Augustus himself

Abstracts: In search of Anau's past. Black Sea coastal cultures: trade and interaction. Eurasian archaeology

Abstracts: Insistent questions: a simple test could resolve the matter. Is the mask a hoax?