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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 52 Number 2, March/April 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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| The "Princess" of Ipatovo |
A rich Scythian-Sarmatian burial is discovered in southern Russia. |
| Hominid Discovery |
A nearly complete hominid skeleton is found in the lowest fossil-bearing layers of South Africa's Sterkfontein Cave. |
| Cattle Save
Sculpture |
A barn full of cows and their dung cushioned the collapse of a Roman temple. |
| Jamestown's
First Lady |
The burial of one of the New World's first English female colonists is excavated at Jamestown. |
| Neandertal Finds |
Fragment of the first recognized Neandertal and at least two pieces of a second skeleton are found in Germany. |
| Pot of Gold |
A jug containing Byzantine gold coins is unearthed in Israel. |
| Earliest
Egyptian Glyphs |
Writing evolved simultaneously in Mesopotamia and Egypt. |
| Prehistoric Miami |
Demolition of an apartment building leads to the discovery of a unique site in downtown Miami. |
| Early Portuguese Burial |
The first Palaeolithic burial ever excavated has yields the intact skeleton of a four-year-old child. |
| Phiale Appeal Heard |
Vincenzo Cammarata, the Italian coin dealer who previously possessed the phiale, is arrested in Sicily. |
| Bronze & Brass Hoard |
Three clay jars containing Islamic bronze and brass objects are recovered in Israel. |
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