Table of Contents	Volume 61 Number 6, November/December 2008

Features (Cover Photo: Berthold Steinhilber) The World's First Temple Turkey's 12,000-year-old stone circles were the spiritual center of a nomadic people by Sandra Scham The Gladiator Diet How to eat, exercise, and die a violent death by Andrew Curry City Beneath the Mounds Mapping a prehistoric American metropolis by Mike Toner Egypt's Frontier Oasis A visual journey by Salima Ikram Photographs by Ken Garrett Witches of Cornwall   Full text! Macabre evidence of age-old spells in an archaeologist's front yard by Kate Ravilious Fighting with Jaguars, Bleeding for Rain  Full text plus videos! Has a 3,000-year-old ritual survived in the highlands of central Mexico? by Zach Zorich

Departments From the President Global Warming Peril Frozen burials and coastal sites threatened by C. Brian Rose In This Issue The Varieties of Ritual Experience by Peter A. Young Letters Still fighting over the ownership of antiquity, making "rock" music of your own From the Trenches Finds on Mount Zion, how to dress like an iceman, cave art appreciation, a shy Venus, undiscovered Afghanistan, Shakespeare's shadow, New Mexico petroglyphs, a gold skull ring, terracotta warriors in California, giant marsupial sloths, a tattooed mummy, and the world's oldest milk Conversation  Full text! Eric Poehler talks about traffic in ancient Pompeii and how it has changed his own driving habits Insider The seedy side of the Holy Land antiquities trade Letter from Utah: Hawaiians of Skull Valley Uncovering a 19th-century Polynesian Mormon village in the desert by David Malakoff Artifact A beheaded Chinese Buddhist saint

September/October 2008 | January/February 2009

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