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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 52 Number 1, January/February 1999
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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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| New Tomb at Teotihuacan |
A burial chamber containing what may be the remains of a retainer of an early ruler of Teotihuacan has been found within the Pyramid of the Moon. |
| Archimedes Manuscript Sold |
An American collector has purchased a tenth-century Byzantine manuscript over the objection of the Greek government and the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. |
| Archaeology and the Talmud? |
The appointment of five orthodox rabbis to Israel's Archaeological Council has sparked fears of religious control of archaeological excavations. |
| Early
Andean Metalworking |
Discoveries in Peru have pushed back the date of the earliest metalworking in the Andes to at least 1100 B.C. |
| Vintage Moscow |
Finds from an excavation in Old Gostiny Dvor will be displayed in a new subterranean museum. |
| Crete Airport Flap |
A private airport planned in Crete is drawing fire from the Association of Greek Archaeologists and the Greek chapter of the International Council on Monuments and Sites. |
| Maya Art Return |
The Denver Art Museum has returned a carved wooden lintel taken from the Petén region of Guatemala. |
| Sampling Monks Mound |
Investigation of a stone layer deep within Monks Mound has yielded more questions about the earthen pyramid at Cahokia, Illinois. |
| Redating the Madrid Codex |
European paper embedded in a page of the Madrid Codex may prove that it was made after the Spanish arrival in the New World. |
| Grave Decision |
The Monticello Association may
revise its membership policy. |
| Latter-Day Shakers |
Ivestigations in central New Hampshire are providing evidence that late nineteenth-century Shakers were not the ascetics historians once believed them to be. |
| Mycenaean Citadel Investigated |
Greek archaeologists have uncovered the remains of one of the most important Mycenaean citadels outside the mainland. |
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