September/October 2014 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents September/October 2014

FEATURES

Erbil Revealed

How the first excavations in an ancient city are supporting its claim as the oldest continuously inhabited place in the world

America, in the Beginning

Archaeologists continue their search for evidence of how the vast, once-uninhabited regions of the New World came to be populated

Monumental Discovery

A stunning second-century sanctuary emerges in the heart of Roman Gaul

The Great War in Miniature

The excavation of a unique battlefield model provides insight into military tactics and the evolution of warfare

Royalty from the Sport of Kings

Unearthing a legend of California racing history

Castaways

Illegally enslaved and then marooned on remote Tromelin Island for fifteen years, with only archaeology to tell their story

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

Your Face: Punching Bag or Spandrel?
Off the Grid
Sounds of the Age of Aquarius
Conquest and Clamshells
They're Just Like Us
Modern-Day Ruin
World's Oldest Pants
Off With Their Heads
Alone, but Closely Watched
Saving the Golden House
The Dovedale Hoard
An Ancient Andean Homecoming
Dawn of a Disease
The Case of the Missing Incisors

World Roundup

Digging at Halloween's birthplace, superstition in the Virgin Islands, new paintings at Angkor Wat, and how materials scientists are using ancient Chinese pottery

Letter from the Bronx

A collection of objects left behind in a New York City neighborhood connects students with the lives of people who were contemporary with their great-great-great-grandparents

Artifact

Does a Viking figurine depict the goddess of love or simply a very stylish man?

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