Top 10 Discoveries of 2016

Features January/February 2017

ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2016 January/February 2017

    London’s Earliest Writing

    London, England

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    (Courtesy © MOLA)
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    Angkor Urban Sprawl

    Siem Reap Province, Cambodia

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    (Courtesy Damian Evans/CALI)
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    Regime Change in Athens

    Athens, Greece

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    (Courtesy Ephorate of West Attica, Piraeus and Islands, Yiannis Asvestas, @All rights reserved)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2016 January/February 2017

    World’s Oldest Dress

    Tarkhan, Egypt

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    (Courtesy Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology)
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    Early Man Cave

    Bruniquel, France

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    (Courtesy © Etienne FABRE-SSAC)
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    Peruvian Woman of Means

    Áspero, Peru

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    10,000-Year-Old Turf War

    Lake Turkana, Kenya

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    (Image by Marta Mirazon Lahr, enhanced by Fabio Lahr)
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    Spiritual Meeting Ground

    Mona Island, Puerto Rico

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    Antikythera Man

    Antikythera, Greece

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    (Image Courtesy Brett Seymour, EUA/WHOI/ARGO)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2016 January/February 2017

    Salem’s Lost Gallows

    Salem, Massachusetts

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    (Courtesy Emerson Baker)
  • Artifacts November/December 2016

    18th-Century Men's Buckle Shoe

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    (Courtesy Dave Webb: Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
  • Around the World November/December 2016

    SOLOMON ISLANDS

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    (Courtesy Nina Kononenko)
  • Digs & Discoveries November/December 2016

    Piltdown’s Lone Forger

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    (Arthur Claude (1867–1951) / Geological Society, London, UK / Bridgeman Images)
  • Features November/December 2016

    Samhain Revival

    Looking for the roots of Halloween in Ireland’s Boyne Valley

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    (Courtesy Stephen Davis, University College Dublin)