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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: Rock art of South Morocco. Hippo hunters of Akrotiri: animal bones found in a rock-shelter suggest that the first inhabitants of Cyprus may have arrived 1,500 to 2,000 years earlier than previously thought
Abstracts: Rome 2000; the eternal city celebrates the jubilee in grand imperial fashion. A cache of vintage ships
Abstracts: Roots of Tibetan Buddhism; a U.S. Chinese team hopes to clarify Buddhist history in the high plateau of western Tibet
Abstracts: "Round up the usual suspects": Anthropology goes to the movies. Representations of the land: anthropology and aboriginals
Abstracts: Routes through the eastern desert of Egypt. The copper hoards of Northern India. The Willcox copper plate from Florida
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: Science & archaeology: imaging Ur's sacrificial dead. The Middle Asian Interaction Sphere. Hanging in the balance
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: Settlement patterns and community organization in the Maya lowlands. Exploring the western highlands of Guatemala: New Perspectives on the ancient Maya
Abstracts: Sick? Try sleeping. Evidence from Hittite records. City in the sky
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: Singer-songwriters on Philo and Flying Fish. Reissuing the revival: British and Irish music on Topic Records. Recent steelband recordings from Trinidad
Abstracts: "So long, until tomorrow". Tutankhamun treasures. World photography on the Worldwide Web
Abstracts: Sonia Elizabeth Chadwick Hawkes Petkovic: 1933-1999. Recent Anglo-Saxon finds from Merseyside and Cheshire and their archaeological significance
Abstracts: Spoils of war. Where civilization began. Building trust in Iraq
Abstracts: Statue breakers and spirit exorcists: the earthquake destruction and its aftereffects. The sanctuary's history and architecture
Abstracts: Steamboats on the Yukon: racing to record the vessels that opened the Canadian Northwest. The Neanderthal code
Abstracts: Sterling Dow, 1903-1995. Massimo Pallottino, 1909-1995. James Bennett Pritchard, 1909-1997
Abstracts: Sterling Dow, 1903-1995. Virginia Randolph Grace, 1901-1994. Edith Porada, 1912-1994
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: Tabletop tactics: Medieval Europeans may have had more fun than you think. When spells worked magic
Abstracts: Tale of two Troys. Bits and pieces: toward an interactive classification of folktales. Psychologically-based criteria for classification by motif and tale type
Abstracts: Tales from the archives. Memorable meetings. Lure of Anemurium
Abstracts: Talking knots of the Inka: a curious manuscript may hold the key to Andean writing. Fabric of time; a 2,000-year-old Peruvian textile offers evidence of early Andean calendrical systems
Abstracts: Tapping into the past and dreading the hangover: Archaeology's staff tastes the world's oldest booze. Writing on the wall
Abstracts: Temples along the Indus. Discovery of a new temple on the Indus. The lost architecture of Ancient Rome: insights from the Severan Plan and the Regionary Catalogues
Abstracts: Terfo: survival of a weaving tradition in New Guinea. A brief cultural history of the eastern slopes. History and the birds of paradise: Surprising connections from New Guinea
Abstracts: Text. Learning to perform, performing to learn. Bi-musicality as metaphor
Abstracts: Texts, tablets, and teaching: scribal education in Nippur and Ur. Unraveling threads; conservation of the weaving lady
Abstracts: The American experience in Egypt: a retrospective chronicles two centuries of exploration. Last of the "foreign devils." (Sir Aurel Stein's failed fourth journey to China)
Abstracts: The America's first colony?: A possible Olmec outpost in southern Mexico. Lucy turns thirty
Abstracts: The battle over Amaknak bridge. Dirtraker. Under Istanbul
Abstracts: The "boat-shaped" lyre: restudy of a unique musical instrument from Ur. Astragali, the ubiquitous gaming pieces
Abstracts: The boom in volunteer archaeology. The landscape genius. Redeeming archaeology
Abstracts: The Boudican uprising and the glass vessels from Colchester. Glass, gold, and gold-glasses
Abstracts: The dead of Snake Hill. Archaeology at war. Fourth in the field; celebrating home abroad
Abstracts: The death of innocents: a postmortem on the terror at the Temple of Hatshepsut. Legacy of Henry VIII: ships to toothpicks were among the possessions of the Tudor monarch
Abstracts: The elusive Arthur. Myth of the hunter-gatherer: the lives of ancient foragers were not always "nasty, brutish, and short"
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 floating republic': on performance and technology in early nineteenth-century Scandinavian politics. The year 536 and the Scandinavian gold hoards
Abstracts: The flowering of the Museum gardens. An enamelled square-headed brooch from East Anglia. Museum courtyard to get a facelift as part of the campaign for the East Wing
Abstracts: The Folk-Ballad: the illegitimate child of the popular ballad. Considering rhetoric's wayward child: ballad scholarship and intradisciplinary conflict
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 guns of Mehrgarh: tribal feuds imperil the future of one of South Asia's most ancient sites. Old Canuck no Kennewick man
Abstracts: The guns of Palo Alto: battlefield surveys indicate that Mexican maps distorted the opening engagement of the Mexican-American War. Why?
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 inhabitants of Ice Age Europe. A new view of a Neandertal fossil bone collection. Researching the origins of Swahili coast inhabitants
Abstracts: The islands of the Aegean. "Ancillary to the study of people": the presence and absence of B.A. Botkin at Point Park College
Abstracts: The last Neandertals. Fate of the Neandertals. Neandertals of the Levant: a baby's burial sheds light on the development and behavior of the species
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 Mahdia masterpieces: German scholars restore a shipwreck's prize Greek sculptures. Lure of the deep
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 motif-index and the tale type index: a critique. Use of motif and type indexes by teachers, storytellers, and children's librarians
Abstracts: The musical instruments from Ur and ancient Mesopotamian music. Geomagnetic mapping at Tell es-Swayhat
Abstracts: The musical instruments from Ur and ancient Mesopotamian music. part 2 Life on the edge of the marshes
Abstracts: The new face of evolution. Mapping an underwater world. Africa's earliest bananas
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 political face of folklore - a call for debate. More about politics and folklore in Turkey. Politics alive in Turkish folklore
Abstracts: The politicization of culture in applied folklore. De-, re-, and post-industrialization: industrial heritage as contested memorial terrain
Abstracts: The politics of discourse: an applied folklore perspective. What is folklore good for? On dealing with undesirable cultural expression
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 presence of the past in the Cajun country Mardi Gras. Some uses of numbers. Religion and politics in the John Frum Festival, Tanna Island, Vanuatu
Abstracts: The rape of Batan Grande. Mystery circles of the Andes. Peru's mummy dogs
Abstracts: The romance of ruins. The Trouble with Blood. Back to the old palace
Abstracts: The Samana Americans: Some forgotten Philadelphians. A consuming tradition: Kava drinking in Fiji. Borneo families in this life and the next: adherents of Kaharingan among the Ngaju Dayaks
Abstracts: The scholar and the impostor. Burial: Rituals of prehistoric forager-farmers in Borneo: The Neolithic cemeteries of Niah Cave, Sarawak
Abstracts: The search for settlements on the Great Sage Plain. Night shift. Plain of jars
Abstracts: The search for Site Q. Faking it. Earliest bipedal ancestor?
Abstracts: The spoils of war: how the law interprets ownership of plundered artifacts. Spoils of war
Abstracts: The tabloid touch. Splendors of Lepcis: a Roman emperor's dream city emerges from the sands. The curse of Kourion
Abstracts: The Tell es-Sweyhat regional archaeological project. Serendipity. Returning to Iran
Abstracts: The Thomsian heritage in the Folklore Society (London). Genres of Comoran folklore. Texture, text, and context of the folklore text vs. indexing
Abstracts: The value of 'Culture': An example from Mongolia. "The culture of reading" in a public school: Ethnography, service-learning, and undergraduate researchers
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 women of Yassihoyuk, Turkey: changing roles in a new economy. Plants in the service of archaeological preservation
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: To farm, or not to farm. Emblems of empire. City of the hawk
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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