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)
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    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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    (Courtesy Jago Cooper)
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    Antikythera Man

    Antikythera, Greece

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    (Image Courtesy Brett Seymour, EUA/WHOI/ARGO)
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    Salem’s Lost Gallows

    Salem, Massachusetts

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    (Courtesy Emerson Baker)
  • Features January/February 2017

    Hoards of the Vikings

    Evidence of trade, diplomacy, and vast wealth on an unassuming island in the Baltic Sea

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    (Gabriel Hildebrand/The Royal Coin Cabinet, Sweden)
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    Fire in the Fens

    A short-lived settlement provides an unparalleled view of Bronze Age life in eastern England

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    (Andrew Testa/New York Times/Redux)
  • Letter from Laos January/February 2017

    A Singular Landscape

    New technology is enabling archaeologists to explore a vast but little-studied mortuary complex in war-damaged Laos

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    (Jerry Redfern)
  • Artifacts January/February 2017

    Neolithic Snowshoe

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    (Courtesy © Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano–Alto Adige, Ufficio Beni Archeologici)