Editors' Corner

This issue of JWA has an archaeological focus. It begins with information about the 1994 Workshops in Archaeometry, an annual event that is sponsored by the Archaeometry Research Graduate Group at the University at Buffalo, and coordinated by Professor Ezra Zubrow. Four papers from that symposium are included here. They represent the cutting edge of research into electronic recording of artifacts (R. Kell), lithic source identification (H. Chaya, P. Julig), and electron spin resonance (B. Blackwell).

The next item, an article about the listserv bulletin board ARCH-L, written by H. Schultz, represents ground-breaking research that shows one way in which the Internet community can analyze itself. A series of reviews follow, discussing David Rindos' exciting book _The Origins of Agriculture_, a new Internet guide by Simon Holledge called _Archaeology on the Net_, _The Quest for the Origins of the First Americans_ by E.J. Dixon, and lastly a pair of simple yet quite handy PC software programs called Win-Atlas and PC-Atlas.

Then we include several announcements. The first item is probably getting familiar to many of you. It is information about the Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists, a handy Internet resource intended to aid not only anthropologists but scholars if the sciences and humanities too. The others deal with two lithic laboratories, the J.D. Holland Lithic Lab at the Buffalo Museum of Science and the Centre de Reference Lithique du Quebec located in Montreal, Quebec. The development of these labs is a sign of a renewed focus in archaeology back to the bare bones of our subject. Both are establishing master reference collections of prehistorically exploited lithic resources on a continental scale for the benefit of all archaeologists

Ezra B.W. Zubrow and Hugh W. Jarvis, Editors of JWA