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Volume 62 Number 5, September/October 2009

Features (Cover Photo: Ken Garrett) America's First Pastime Did rolling stones spread Mississippian culture across North America? by Timothy R. Pauketat Oceans of Dharma Can investigating India's medieval dams provide a model for bringing water to a billion people? by Samir S. Patel Exclusive Online Feature: On the Hilltop and Down By the River New Home for Treasures of the Acropolis by Jarrett A. Lobell The Man Under the Jaguar Mountain  Full text! A new royal Maya tomb emerges from the tunnels beneath Copán's Acropolis by Zach Zorich Dark History of the White Death The million-year battle between man and tuberculosis by Lois Wingerson

Departments From the President Everyone's Hero Ancient models, modern identity by C. Brian Rose In This Issue Celebrating the Gods by Peter A. Young Letters Spotting the Ice Maiden, hippies playing Monopoly, manioc mania, and gender-bending in ancient Greece From the Trenches Irrigating Arizona, mammoth BBQ, Obama in Egypt, Stone Age superglue, origins of the devil, the first leper, digging the Wailing Wall, a urine-filled witch bottle, nonsense at the world's first temple, poisoned fish, and a marsupial lion Conversation  Expanded online-online version! An archaeologist from Blanding, Utah, talks about the federal arrests of 16 pothunters in his hometown Insider  Full text! Are graffiti-covered pottery sherds from a Roman city in Basque country the finds of a lifetime, or a bold, bewildering fraud? Letter from Thailand Investigating the little-known "Log Coffin Culture" by Karen J. Coates Artifact At 37,000 years old, the "Venus" of Hohle Fels is the earliest known depiction of the female form

July/August 2009 | November/December 2009

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