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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 54 Number 1, January/February 2001
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
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Latest News
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Check out the latest news from ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
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| "God's Hands" Did the Devil's Work |
Prominent Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura has been caught red-handed burying artifacts at a site. |
| Mimbres Court Evidence |
Three men have been arrested for digging up potsherds at the East Fork site, a Mimbres settlement in New Mexico's Gila National Forest. |
| Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Concern |
The Supreme Court's ruling last summer that the Scouts can exclude gays worries some archaeologists. |
| Make It So! Sayeth Cleopatra |
A single Greek word written at the bottom of a Ptolemaic papyrus may have been written by the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII herself. |
| Gold Wreath |
A farmer in Greece recently uncovered a remarkably well-preserved gold wreath dating to ca. 450-425 B.C. |
| Will "Blind Edip" Sing? |
The Swiss High Court has returned 62-year-old antiquities smuggler Edip Telli to Turkey. |
| Slaves' Graves? |
Plans to lay walking trails on a forgotten piece of land in Georgia were halted when officials were informed of an oral tradition that the site was an old cemetery. |
| Egyptian Revival in Atlanta |
Coffins, mummies, and tomb furnishings are now undergoing study and conservation at Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. |
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