Departments	Volume 52 Number 4, July/August 1999

In This Issue Earliest This, Latest That	Keeping up with the news in human evolution by Peter A. Young
From the President Science vs. Salvors	Sport divers and commercial salvors are destroying information that scientific excavation of shipwrecks can provide. by Nancy C. Wilkie
Insight Encounters with Ali Pasha	The life and times of an Ottoman despot by James Wiseman
Books A Matter of Superior Spearpoints	Three new books examine North America's distinctive Clovis people. Reviewed by Kenneth B. Tankersley (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's bookstore for the latest list of new books.)
At the Museums A Walk Through Time	The Nubia Museum at Aswan chronicles one of Africa's most influential cultures. Reviewed by Angela M.H. Schuster (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of museum exhibitions.)
Multimedia Frozen in the Past	NOVA examines ancient bodies preserved in ice. by Paul G. Bahn
Forum My Ghost Town	A childhood haunt becomes a tourist attraction. by Jenny Attiyeh

© 1999 by the Archaeological Institute of America www.archaeology.org/9907/abstracts/depts.html

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