Table of Contents

Volume 62 Number 1, January/February 2009

Features (Cover Photo: Jorge Perez de Lara) Top 10 Discoveries of 2008  Extended online-only version! ARCHAEOLOGY recaps the year's most intriguing stories Witness to Genocide  Full text! Forensic archaeologists uncover evidence of a secret massacre—and help convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity by Heather Pringle Extreme Makeover How painted bodies, flattened foreheads, and filed teeth made the Maya beautiful by Mary Miller Swept Away Rediscovering the ruins of a medieval British city beneath the North Sea by Samir S. Patel Utopia Derailed How the 1894 Pullman strike ended one magnate's vision of a working-class paradise by Arthur Melville Pearson Family Secrets An Italian CSI unit helps investigate ancient remains found in a third-century A.D. tomb by Marco Merola

Departments In This Issue Blood, Sweat, and Tears by Peter A. Young From the President War and Culture Senate acts to safeguard past during conflicts by C. Brian Rose Letters Married to a gladiator, soda vs. beer, eagles and snakes, and not-so-sinister witches From the Trenches Lusitania's secret, Neanderthal babies, Egyptian judgment, hallucinating history, Britain's oldest toy, Civilization Revolution, Jack London's ranch, African spirits, armadillo tunnels, earliest tuberculosis, Lenape prophecy, and giant clams Conversation  Full text! Celine Rainville talks about how to coach a college atlatl-team, and why undergrads love the ancient spear-throwing tool Insider Reassessing the Chaco Meridian, one of the most controversial theories about the ancient Southwest Letter from Macedonia: Owning Alexander A modern nation makes a contentious claim on the legacy of Alexander the Great by Matthew Brunwasser Artifact A portable perpetual calendar from a fort in Roman Britain

November/December 2008 | March/April 2009

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