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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 52 Number 4, July/August 1999
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Check out the latest news from ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
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| Prize Palenque Finds |
Recent excavations at the Late Classic Maya city of Palenque in Mexico have yielded a tomb decorated with the first painted murals ever found at the site. |
| Mass Reburial |
In the largest single repatriation of American Indian remains ever, the bones of nearly 2,000 people have been returned to the pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico. |
| Kosovo War Damage |
Monuments in Kosovo and Serbia's other provinces have been damaged during the Balkan war. |
| Pre-Clovis Surprise |
Excavations have revealed apparently pre-Clovis artifacts at the Topper site near Allendale, South Carolina. |
| Capitol Sex |
On the future site of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., excavation has turned up the midden associated with a Civil War-era brothel. |
| Sunken Frigate Yields Punic Stelae |
One hundred fifteen stelae found at ancient Carthage in 1874-1875 and shipped to Toulon, France, have finally reached their destination. |
| Hybrid Humans? |
Analysis of the skeletal remains of a four-year-old child suggests early modern humans and Neandertals may have interbred. |
| Cyprus Import Ban |
The United States has imposed an emergency import ban on Byzantine ecclesiastical and ritual objects from Cyprus. |
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