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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 56 Number 1, January/February 2003
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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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| Ossuary Tales |
The discovery of an inscription on the side of a light brown, chalky limestone box was announced at a Washington press conference in October. |
| It Takes a Fortified Village |
The first evidence for prehistoric earthen ramparts on the Great Plains has been found in North Dakota. |
| Garden Under Guard |
Archaeology at the site of the Minidoka Relocation Center in southern Idaho is stirring memories of the biggest forced removal of a population in United States history.
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| Sacrificed to the Sea God |
Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered remains of 187 bound men on a beach near Lima. |
| Lover's Memorial |
A large colonnaded building at Hadrian's villa in Tivoli, Italy, has been identified as a temple commemorating Antinoos. |
| Maya Goods in Teotihuacan Tomb |
Maya artifacts were recently discovered in a fourth-century A.D. tomb in the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan. |
| Vile Finds |
An archaeologist was recently exposed to mustard gas at the Presidio lab. |
| Leapin' Olympians |
Athletes in ancient Greece used 20-pound weights to increase their jumping abilities. |
| Frontier Fashionistas |
A cache of Roman shoes has been discovered in the Meuse River southeast of Amsterdam. |
| Star-Crossed Find |
A bronze disk from Germany has led archaeologists to mainland Europe's oldest-known astronomical observatory. |
| Astonishing Discovery in Henan |
The largest royal tomb in China has been discovered by archaeologists in Henan Province. |
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