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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: La cadena que no se corta: Las artes tradicionales de la comunidad mexico-americana de Tucson/The Unbroken Chain: The Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican-American Community
Abstracts: Land of promise & paradox: a last frontier for American archaeology, Alaska harbors a wealth of sites but has few archaeologists to stem the tide of natural and human destruction
Abstracts: Language in the Ice Ages. Digging up Neandertals at Mujina. What were the Ice Ages?
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: Leonard V. Quigley. W. David Kingery. Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
Abstracts: "Let's make it a humankind museum property." (statement by Valery Kulishov, Russian State Commission on Restitution, on Priam's Treasure)
Abstracts: Letter from Sri Lanka. Ill-fated galleon: discovery of a sixteenth-century wreck is resurrecting a forgotten chapter in Spanish colonial history
Abstracts: Letters to the crocodile god: fragments of ancient writing illuminate 3,000 years of life in an Egyptian oasis town
Abstracts: Lewis and Clarkiana: devotees of the "Great Captains" hold their annual jamboree. Tutankhamun returns
Abstracts: Life and death in a Maya war zone. Ghosts of Kosovo. Pyramid scheme
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: Listening to the mill: growing up in the shadow of "The Steel". Inside the asylums
Abstracts: Lives of girls and women: the New York School. The development of Green Linnet CDs as music-historical documents
Abstracts: Looking before you date. Bigfoot exposed!: a scientist examines the evidence. First soldier of the Gene Wars
Abstracts: Looking through Roman glass. Cambodian history through Cambodian museums. Olympics through time
Abstracts: Lost City. Appeasing the volcano gods. City of the gods
Abstracts: Lost Hacienda: Scholars reconstruct the lives of laborers on a Yucatan plantation. Reviving a radiant canvas
Abstracts: Lucy up close: a paleo-celebrity's contribution to evolutionary science. The Polynesian connection
Abstracts: Mad honey! A sip of toxic nectar could kill a horse, render a soldier senseless, and inspire the Delphic Oracle
Abstracts: Managing a world class past. Jewelry repatriated. Ruins on the rapids: a white-knuckle, down-river ride to save Peru's past
Abstracts: Manolis Andronikos, 1919-1992. Warren G. Moon, 1945-1992. Alexander's epic march
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: Mastodons, Mound Builders, and Montroville Wilson Dickeson: pioneering American archaeologist. Landscapes of ancestors: early iron age hillforts and their mound cemeteries
Abstracts: Maya superstates: how a few powerful kingdoms vied for control of the Maya Lowlands during the Classic period (A.D. 300-900)
Abstracts: Mediators in a universal discourse. Dialogue with the firmament. Solving the mystery of the Nasca lines
Abstracts: Mighty Cahokia: a major trading center whose influence extended throughout much of North America, Cahokia was in its day the greatest settlement north of Mexico
Abstracts: Mining the mosaics of Roman Zeugma. Athens' coin palace. Roman coin cache discovered
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: Monuments and memory. The nuclear option. Conversations
Abstracts: More about politics and folklore in Turkey. Folklore from the grassroots. On scapegoating public folklore
Abstracts: Moroccan Gnawa and transglobal trance. Read my lips... ears, nose, head, and teeth: interpreting permanent bodily ornaments
Abstracts: Mound safari: taking a prehistoric roadtrip through the Bayou State. In Katrina's wake
Abstracts: Moving the museum's ethnographic collections: a conservation approach. Etruscan sandals: fancy footwear from the sixth century B.C
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: Mummies of the Tarim Basin: dessicated remains found in western China point to the spread of Indo-Europeans some 4,000 years ago
Abstracts: Museum makeover. Exhibitions. A brilliant past in Berlin
Abstracts: Museum under siege: attacked and looted by warring factions, Afghanistan's National Museum has now been stripped of 70 percent of its collections
Abstracts: Mystery monasteries: boyhood curiosity leads to a career studying Moscow's oldest and least understood church buildings
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: Mythic visions. Chaco world: the bluff great house. Food for the Gods: or, you are who you eat in ancient Mexico
Abstracts: Mythology and folktale typology: chronicle of a failed scholarly revolution. The centrality in folkloristics of motif and tale type
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: North American native music. The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead. Health and Healing Experiences in North Carolina
Abstracts: North American native music. Understanding and producing the variability of oral tradition: learning from a Bulgarian piper
Abstracts: Object and alterity - Gottfried Korff's theory of display visits Los Angeles. Rocking the Plymoth myth
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 "Remus Orthography". Our best, and oldest, friends: the long and often forgotten history of dogs. Remus orthography: the history of the representation of the African-American voice
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: Paleogenetics: DNA for the archaeologist. Ceramic petrography. Ancient palynology
Abstracts: Past, present, future: perception of the time through the ages. Banking on stone money
Abstracts: Performance. Working in the cracks: public space, ecological crisis, and the folklorist. Context
Abstracts: Perseus II. Visions of the Campagna. Classics for the masses?
Abstracts: Pharos sculpture recovered. Corpse in the curiosity shop. Siberian fluted point
Abstracts: Playground for the human spirit: experiencing the new Getty Center. Getty Villa reopens
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: Precolumbian fish farming in the Amazon. Pre-Columbian roads of the Amazon. Work parties and raised field groups in the Bolivian Amazon
Abstracts: Preserving a Cold War legacy. Hunting fakes: A Smithsonian sleuth says counterfeits lurk in museum collections the world over
Abstracts: Prince of the Great Kurgan. Land of the Golden Fleece. Caucasus kurgan cache
Abstracts: Priniatikos Pyrgos: A primary harbor settlement and emporium in Eastern Crete. WaHa-belash adi Kwan tsaawa: butterflies and blue rain: the language of contemporary Eastern Pueblo embroidery
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: Raphael Patai (1910-1996). A tribute: Kenneth S. Goldstein. Kenneth S. Goldstein (1927-1995)
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: Reclaiming the Bounty: Australian divers locate the remains of the famous ship in shallow waters off Pitcairn Island
Abstracts: Re-creating a Frankish town: a fourteenth-century settlement in southern Greece is reborn using computer imaging
Abstracts: Recycled, Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap. Norwegian Folk Art: The Migration of a Tradition. Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South
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: Remarks on some objects from Umm el-Marra, 1994-1995. Archaeology in Jordan. Archaeology in Syria
Abstracts: Renewing a critical dialogue. Annual kudos. Antiquarian delights; Rome unveils three splendid musums
Abstracts: Rescue and restoration: a history of the Philadelphia "Ram Caught in a Thicket." King Tut exhibition comes to Philadelphia
Abstracts: Resilient shrine. Remembering Africa under the eaves; a forgotten room in a Brooklyn farmhouse bears witness to the spiritual lives of slaves
Abstracts: Rethinking Jewish art. Treasures from Saba. Britannia rides
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: Rewriting Southwestern prehistory: new studies suggest an overarching political system dominated much of the Southwest from A.D. 850 to 1500
Abstracts: Riddle of Great Zimbabwe. Africa's storied past: once a "people without history," Africans explore a vibrant precolonial landscape
Abstracts: Riddle of the emperor's cloak. Cloak and trowel. Curse of the stolen cloak
Abstracts: Rise and fall of the city of the gods: a cult of Venus-inspired warfare and blood sacrifice both sustained and ultimately destroyed the great Mesoamerican metropolis of Teotihuacan
Abstracts: Rise of the hominids: an informative, albeit simplistic, journey through time. Surfing ancient lands: a guide to CD-ROM offerings
Abstracts: Rituals of the modern Maya: a strong undercurrent of Precolumbian belief pervades much of today's religious practice
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