July/August 2015 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents July/August 2015

FEATURES

The Story of the Horse

How its unique role in human culture transformed history

In Search of a Philosopher’s Stone

At a remote site in Turkey, archaeologists have found fragments of the ancient world’s most massive inscription

All in a Day’s Work

Discoveries at the ancient Egyptian town of Deir el-Medina are providing insights into the health and well-being of workmen who dug tombs for royals

Lost Island of the Maya

A submerged ancient pilgrimage site in Guatemala is slowly revealing its past

A Precious Secret

How Korean scientists solved a centuries-old mystery

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

A Spin through Augustan Rome
Off The Grid
The First Toolkit
Anglo-Saxon Jewelry Box
Wrecks of the Pacific Theater
The Environmental Cost of Empire
One Ring to Bind Them
Cosmic Rays and Australopithecines
Bison Bone Mystery
Rome's Earliest Fort
A Parisian Plague
Finding Lost African Homelands
Neanderthal Necklace
Slime Molds and Roman Roads
Open House

World Roundup

Civil War booze, world’s oldest pretzels, Austria’s war camels, coral tombs of the Pacific, and a 2.8-million-year-old human

Letter from Virginia

Excavations are providing a new look at some of the Civil War’s earliest fugitive slaves—considered war goods or contraband—and their first taste of liberty

Artifact

Styling hair in Bronze Age Wales

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