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Archaeology Magazine The January 2010 issue of the American Journal of Archaeology is now available online.
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Well, we’ve rolled the calendar over once again. Here, at the start of 2010, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of the archaeological stories that were in a century ago. Lacking a time machine, I turned to the News in History website (www.newsinhistory.com). ...
What can a pinch of dirt from the Alaska permafrost tell us about the extinction of mammoths and prehistoric horses? An awful lot, says an international team of researchers headed by James Haile, a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen...
Paleoanthropology and studies of human evolution have long been dependent on discoveries of fossils, with each discovery producing scholarly claims and counterclaims—monkey, ancestor; ancestor, monkey–that eventually advance our knowledge of how we became us. Wi...
The million dollar question: what is a machacador? « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoam
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During our 2009 survey season, a student approached us asking if it was ok to collect a strange object lying on a mound by his feet.
“He had a smaller mind than any English king before him save James the Second. He was wretchedly educated, and his natural taste was of the meanest sort.” Writing back in 1875, Oxford historian J.R. Green didn’t mince words when it came to George III. As e...
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ARCHAEOLOGY's editors reveal 2009's most compelling stories.
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2009, Stone Age India, Turkish Delights, Trophy Skulls and Beer (Peru), First Minoan Shipwreck (Crete)
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You may have seen the news about the human remains from Herxheim, a 7,000-year-old Early Neolithic site in southwestern Germany. It’s an extraordinary site. Excavations in 1996-1999 and 2005-2008 uncovered rings of overlapping elongated pits around a small settlement dated to ca. 7,000 years ago. ...
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A small Wari settlement with a big imperial surprise
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Classic cases of archaeological hoaxes, fakes, and strange sites, plus fake busters, the (fake) art market, pseudoarchaeology, and more
I have been thinking a great deal this week about the rediscovery of Galileo’s fingers in a glass vase in Italy. On the surface the story seemed, well, ghoulish. Who would want to desecrate the body of the famous Italian scientist by severing his thumb and middle finger after death? ...
In our recent cover survey, we also asked for your feedback about what you like and dislike in Archaeology and on Archaeology.org. We received hundreds of responses—thanks to everyone who gave us their input. ...
