Magazine: Expedition Volume 47, Number 3 Winter 2005 Special Issue: Caves

Cover: Photo by Graeme Barker

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