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James R. Mathieu, Ph.D.
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Volume 47, Number 3

Winter 2005
Special Issue: Caves

Cover: Photo by Graeme Barker. The Neolithic cemetery is located in the West Mouth of Niah Great Cave, behind the fencing on the right.





Features

Caves as Sacred Places on the Tibetan Plateau
Mark Aldenderfer

Burial Rituals of Prehistoric Forager-Farmers in Borneo--The Neolithic Cemeteries of Niah Cave, Sarawak
Graeme Barker

What Did Ice Age People Do in the Deep Caves?
Jean Clottes

Archaeological Caving in Croatia--The Illyrian Rituals of Nakovana Cave
Timothy Kaiser and Staso Forenbaher

The Heart of Creation, the Heart of Darkness--Sacred Caves in Mesoamerica
Holley Moyes and James E. Brady

The World of Ancient Ancestors--Australian Aboriginal Caves and Other Realms within Rock
Paul S. C. Tacon

 

 

Departments

From the Editor

From the Director

Meet the Curators--Harold L. Dibble

From the Archives--Mystery at Acambaro, Mexico

Research Notes--The Origins of Pastoralism in Eastern Africa

Museum Mosaic--People, Places, Projects

What in the World--A Ritual Vessel in a Maya Cave

Index for Volume 47