Table of Contents	Volume 51 Number 1, January/February 1998

The full texts of newsbriefs and selected longer articles are available on line;
brief abstracts of other departments and features are also available.

From the Publisher In This Issue From the President Insight The Art of Gardening by James Wiseman Special Report Ekron Identity Confirmed by Seymour Gitin, Trude Dothan, and Joeseph Naveh At the Museums Treasures of the Indus by Angela M.H. Schuster Books Our Best, and Oldest, Friends by Lynn M. Snyder Multimedia Citizens of the Past by Donald H. Sanders Forum The Tears of Time by Margaret Blaker

Bridge over the Neretva   Birth of a Civilization   Our Best, and Oldest, Friends

Newsbriefs Greek Gold Seized, Einkorn's Debut, New Wood Henge, Searching for Lewis and Clark, Antiquities Watchdog, Biggest A. boisei Cranium, New Pompeii Law, Civil War Site Threatened, Sinking Viking Ship?, Earliest Mound Site, Saving Shiloh, Sacred Stone, Looters Jailed, Rock Art Date Contested TRAJAN'S GLORIOUS FORUM One of ancient Rome's preeminent public spaces dazzles on paper as it must have in stone. by James E. Packer ILL-FATED GALLEON Discovery of a sixteenth-century wreck is resurrecting a forgotten chapter in Spanish colonial history. by Roger C. Smith BRIDGE OVER THE NERETVA The loss of the sixteenth-century bridge at Mostar remains a powerful symbol of a collective heritage destroyed by war. by Jerrilynn D. Dodds BIRTH OF A CIVILIZATION How a disparate collection of regional settlements evolved into one of the world's first great societies. by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Photos, from top: The Neretva River at Mostar (Maria Daniels); Script on bull seal from Mohenjo-daro (Courtesy J.M. Kenoyer and Department of Archaeology and Museums, Pakistan); Trekhonds pressed into service in World War I (Courtesy Mary Elizabeth Thurston)

November/December 1997 | March/April 1998

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