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Abstracts: In the valley of the eagle. The heart of creation, the heart of darkness: Sacred caves in Mesoamerica. Caves as sacred places on the Tibetan plateau
Abstracts: Invisible no more. Reshaping Waterloo. In Flanders fields
Abstracts: Iran beckons. First churches of the Jesus cult. City of the dead
Abstracts: Iraq alert: an extraordinary heritage is now at risk. The specter of war: protecting Iraq's museum collections and archaeological sites in the event of an invasion
Abstracts: Is the mask a hoax? The case for authenticity. Behind the mask of Agamemnon: is Schliemann's famous find a modern-day forgery?
Abstracts: Joseph Wegner:Associate curator, Egyptian section. Out of heaviness, enlightenment. The centennial potlatch
Abstracts: Kenneth S. Goldstein, producer of folk revival and country recordings. From the sound recordings review editor the classification of traditional instrumental music
Abstracts: Kentucky memoir: digging in the Depression. Antique archaeologists. Journey to Jamestown
Abstracts: Kingdom of the sands: how a Saharan slave-trading people made the desert bloom. A yearning for Yemen: second thoughts on working in the Middle East
Abstracts: Last great capital of the Maya. Iceland's unwritten saga. Beyond the family feud
Abstracts: Legacy of Fort Mose. Rethinking modern history. Medieval foothold in the Americas: at La Isabela, Columbus sought to replicate a proper Spanish town
Abstracts: Legacy of medieval Serbia: masterpieces of art and architecture in the wake of war. Sounding the alarm: a heritage watch will monitor endangered sites and monuments
Abstracts: Letters to the crocodile god: fragments of ancient writing illuminate 3,000 years of life in an Egyptian oasis town
Abstracts: Life at the front: letters buried at a succession of Roman forts near Hadrian's Wall tell of the concerns and pleasures of ordinary men and women
Abstracts: Lives of girls and women: the New York School. The development of Green Linnet CDs as music-historical documents
Abstracts: Lucy up close: a paleo-celebrity's contribution to evolutionary science. The Polynesian connection
Abstracts: Managing a world class past. Jewelry repatriated. Ruins on the rapids: a white-knuckle, down-river ride to save Peru's past
Abstracts: Mapping Alexandria's royal quarters. A magnificent Mayanist: students and colleagues gather to honor Linda Schele
Abstracts: Mapping with light. Attention, shoppers: plans for a Greek supermarket lead to the discovery of ancient agora
Abstracts: Mediators in a universal discourse. Dialogue with the firmament. Solving the mystery of the Nasca lines
Abstracts: Minoan fresco connections. Snake goddesses, fake goddesses; how forgers on Crete met the demand for Minoan antiquities
Abstracts: Moche masterworks. Finding the tomb of a Moche priestess. Inside the royal tombs of the Moche
Abstracts: Mongolia: Seeking clues to ancient nomadic life at the edge of the Arctic. Searching for the first New Zealanders: can rats rewrite Pacific history?
Abstracts: Much ado about a circle: Could Miami's heralded Indian site be a 1950s septic tank drain? Osceola's head: close encounters with a famed Seminole chief
Abstracts: Museum makeover. Exhibitions. A brilliant past in Berlin
Abstracts: Mystery of the Maya facade; astute detective work gives new meaning to a looted artwork. Betraying the Maya
Abstracts: Mystery script. Colonizing cretans. Europe's first mummies: surprising evidence that ancient Britons also preserved their dead
Abstracts: Native voices. Ancient Americans. Classical kids
Abstracts: New exhibit opens to acclaim. Time travel, trebuchets, and atlatls. A tree falls in Philadelphia
Abstracts: New life for the dead: Atlanta's Emory University unveils a unique collection of Egyptian mummies and decorated coffins
Abstracts: Nipper in the jungle. Goldberg variations. Thomas C. Donaldson and the 1890 census
Abstracts: Of coffins, curses, and other plumbeous matters. What is a water trough where a horse can't even get a drink? Illustrations by the early travelers
Abstracts: On the dilemma of a horn: the horned shamans of West Mexico. Chicken soup and canvas bags: advice for the field
Abstracts: Origins of syphilis. Sampling Monks Mound: probes reveal complex interior. The peopling of Japan
Abstracts: Pharos sculpture recovered. Corpse in the curiosity shop. Siberian fluted point
Abstracts: Poetic visions of the past; encounters with the archaeological muse. Timeless verses; poetic views of archaeology and its practitioners
Abstracts: Portrait of a purist. Power places: a photographer's vision of sites that link the secular with the sacred. The genius of Felix Bonfils; rare images of the monuments of ancient Athens by a nineteenth-century virtuoso
Abstracts: Pottery from the sanctuary: a question of function. The coins and the cult. History, trade and the terracottas
Abstracts: Prince of the Great Kurgan. Land of the Golden Fleece. Caucasus kurgan cache
Abstracts: Problematizing the great divide: teaching orality/literature. Folklore and freedom
Abstracts: Project Sting: the latest tactic in the war on illegal artifact trading is paying off in federal convictions and a flood of information about dealers and their clients
Abstracts: Pueblos of the Mesa Verde: southwestern canyon country yields clues to the settlement patterns and eventual exodus of the Anasazi
Abstracts: Race against time: Chinese scholars scramble to save sites threatened by the world's biggest dam. "Sites too valuable to be lost." (Yu Weichao, director of National History Museum of China, on archaeological sites threatened by Three Gorges Dam project)(Interview)
Abstracts: Rafael Morales Fernandez, 1919-2003. Meet the new Board Chair: Michael J. Kowalski. Gone fishing
Abstracts: Ralph Rinzler (1934-1994). Tradition. Warren E. Roberts (1924-99)
Abstracts: Rebecca Huss-Ashmore. Meet the curators: Barry L. Eichler. Richard Zettler
Abstracts: Rebuilding the monuments of Pericles. British museum to get Icklingham bronzes. Turkey's Sephardic heritage
Abstracts: Reed boats and experimental archaeology on lake Titicaca. The "tired stones" of Lake Titicaca. David Randall-MacIver: Explorer of Abydos and curator of the Egyptian Section
Abstracts: Renewing a critical dialogue. Annual kudos. Antiquarian delights; Rome unveils three splendid musums
Abstracts: Resilient shrine. Remembering Africa under the eaves; a forgotten room in a Brooklyn farmhouse bears witness to the spiritual lives of slaves
Abstracts: REU student Herbert Poepoe. REU student Nanibaa Beck. REU student Sonya Ashley
Abstracts: Review of Aegean prehistory VII: neopalatial, final palatial, and postpalatial Crete. Review of Aegean prehistory VI: the palatial Bronze Age of the southern and central Greek mainland
Abstracts: Rituals of the modern Maya: a strong undercurrent of Precolumbian belief pervades much of today's religious practice
Abstracts: Road scholars. Commerce of war. Surprise finds in Tequila Country
Abstracts: Robert L. Schuyler. C. Brian Rose: Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean section. Donald White
Abstracts: Rome 2000; the eternal city celebrates the jubilee in grand imperial fashion. A cache of vintage ships
Abstracts: Saddle up the camels. New finds at Flag Fen. Basques of Red Bay: workshop ruins and wrecked ships yield evidence of a whaling settlement on the south coast of Labrador that was forgotten for almost 400 years
Abstracts: Sanctuary of the gods: scholars unearth exquisite evidence of the cults that flourished at the sacred Macedonian city of Dion
Abstracts: Sarmatian treasures of south Russia. First report on Priam's treasure. The "princess" of Ipatovo: Russian tomb may clarify Scythian-Sarmatian transition
Abstracts: Searching for the beginnings of winemaking. The beginnings of winemaking and viniculture in the ancient Near East and Egypt
Abstracts: 'Seated people' of the rain forest; mysterious funerary urns are found in caves deep within the Amazon jungle
Abstracts: Seat if eternity; excavations at Abydos reveal an elaborate funerary complex linking a deceased Middle Kingdom pharaoh to the god Osiris
Abstracts: Secrets of the Medici. Treasures of Tanis. The well-dressed dead: class still has its privileges in the catacombs of Palermo
Abstracts: Signs, texts, and oral tradition. On being a folklorist in an English department: implications for research. It is with great pleasure that I recommend...
Abstracts: Simulated Caesar: computer games are entertaining, but what do we really learn about the past? The pride of Poland
Abstracts: "So long, until tomorrow". Tutankhamun treasures. World photography on the Worldwide Web
Abstracts: Statue breakers and spirit exorcists: the earthquake destruction and its aftereffects. The sanctuary's history and architecture
Abstracts: Stone Age gallery by the sea. Outdoor creations of the Ice Age. Treasure of the Sierra Atapuerca: a mountain range in northern Spain yields a cornucopia of human remains, including the world's oldest known burials
Abstracts: Sumptuous Celtic burials. Otzi's new home: the 5,000-year-old Iceman goes on exhibit in Bolzano, Italy. Cloning Altamira
Abstracts: Surprise finds in Tequila Country. The battle over Amaknak bridge. Unearthing America's Czarist Heritage
Abstracts: Surrogate stone. Summer on the River Styx. What killed the babies of Lugnano?
Abstracts: Tales from the archives. Memorable meetings. Lure of Anemurium
Abstracts: Tapping into the past and dreading the hangover: Archaeology's staff tastes the world's oldest booze. Writing on the wall
Abstracts: Texts, tablets, and teaching: scribal education in Nippur and Ur. Unraveling threads; conservation of the weaving lady
Abstracts: The battle over Amaknak bridge. Dirtraker. Under Istanbul
Abstracts: The dead of Snake Hill. Archaeology at war. Fourth in the field; celebrating home abroad
Abstracts: The enduring Maya. Cruising Turkey's southern coast. When giants roamed the earth
Abstracts: The Fantome controversy. Edge of an ethical dilemma: should a conservator risk her reputation to preserve suspect artifacts, or let them fall apart?
Abstracts: The first Asians: a cave in China yields evidence of the earliest migration out of Africa. Early "Homo erectus" tools in China
Abstracts: The first Europeans: isolated from populations in Africa and the Near East, archaic Homo sapiens in Europe evolved into Neandertals
Abstracts: The forgotten realm of Alexander. Faking biblical history. Pseudoscience in cyberspace: in the Hall of Ma'at, fed-up archaeology buffs fight back
Abstracts: The hand of fate in Tatiana Proskouriakoff's career. Cantinflas. A crowning achievement: Zelia Nuttall in Czarist Russia
Abstracts: The harem conspiracy. The mystery of Unknown Man E.. Egyptomania!: what accounts for our intoxication with things Egyptian?
Abstracts: The hunt for Priam's treasure: a Berlin prehistorian conducts an exhaustive search for Schliemann's celebrated Trojan gold
Abstracts: The little colony that couldn't. Legacy of jade and gold. Earth explorer
Abstracts: The lost Goddess of Israel. Hollywood holy land. A fight over sacred turf
Abstracts: The meme-ing of folklore. Definitions of folklore. Folklore and science: inflections of "folk" in cognitive research
Abstracts: Theme park of the Gods? A novel legacy. The Met's new temple
Abstracts: The modern Celts of Northern Spain. Museum mosaic: people, places, projects. Defining "Celtic": the case of the insular Celts
Abstracts: The origins of pastoralism in Eastern Africa: Archaeological exploration on the Laikipi Plateau, Kenya. Life on the Frontier in ancient Peru
Abstracts: The Parthenon Marbles custody case: did British restorers mutilate the famous sculptures? Jousting over the Parthenon marbles
Abstracts: The Post-Roman world: recent scholarship rejects the idea that a dark ages of chaos and obscurity characterized the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Abstracts: The rape of Batan Grande. Mystery circles of the Andes. Peru's mummy dogs
Abstracts: The search for Site Q. Faking it. Earliest bipedal ancestor?
Abstracts: The tabloid touch. Splendors of Lepcis: a Roman emperor's dream city emerges from the sands. The curse of Kourion
Abstracts: The WAC in Washington: Brian Fagan's sneak preview of the forthcoming World Archaeological Congress. A peek at the past: the rise and demise of archaeology's Victorian predecessor
Abstracts: The world of Paul: regional surveys in Greece and Asia Minor point to the impact of Roman rule on the spread of Christianity
Abstracts: Thracian gold fever. A ride to the afterlife. The gods return to Olympus: In today's Greece, worshipping Zeus is a controversial practice
Abstracts: Timeless thoroughbred: England's Uffington Horse mystifies scholars and mesmerizes visitors. Defiant Britain; mapping the bunkers and pillboxes built to stymie a Nazi invasion
Abstracts: Tombs of the Liao. Dynasty of nomads: rediscovering the forgotten Liao Empire. The search for Peking man: The famous fossils are still MIA, but does Chinese paleontology miss them?
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