Top 10 Discoveries of 2017

Features January/February 2018

ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2017 January/February 2018

    Skull Cult at Göbekli Tepe

    Sanliurfa, Turkey

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    (National Geographic Magazines/GettyImages)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2017 January/February 2018

    Finding Indianapolis

    North Pacific Ocean

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    (Courtesy U.S. Navy)
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    Super Fruitcake

    Cape Adare, Antarctica

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    (© Antarctic Heritage Trust)
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    Aztec Warrior Wolf

    Mexico City, Mexico

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    (Mirsa Islas/Courtesy Templo Mayor Project)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2017 January/February 2018

    Dawn of Egyptian Writing

    El-Khawy, Egypt

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    (Alberto Urcia, Elkab Desert Survey Project)
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    Caveman Genetics

    Eurasia

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    (IAET SB RAS / Sergei Zelensky)
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    Iron Age Britain’s Oldest Gold

    Staffordshire, England

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    (Joe Giddens/PA Archive/PA Images)
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    Rome’s Oldest Aqueduct

    Rome, Italy

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    (Bruno Fruttini)
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    The Square Inside Avebury’s Circles

    Wiltshire, England

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    (Courtesy Mark Gillings/University of Leicester)
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    Homo sapiens, Earlier Still

    Jebel Irhoud, Morocco

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    (Jean-Jacques Hublin/MPI EVA Leipzig)
  • Letter From Albania January/February 2018

    A Road Trip Through Time

    As a new pipeline cuts its way through the Balkans, archaeologists in Albania are grabbing every opportunity to expose the country’s history—from the Neolithic to the present

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    (TAP/G. Shkullaku)
  • Artifacts January/February 2018

    Roman Dog Statue

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    (Eve Andreski/Courtesy Gloucester County Council)
  • Digs & Discoveries January/February 2018

    The Secrets of Sabotage

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    (Bjørn Harry Schønhaug)
  • Digs & Discoveries January/February 2018

    A Monumental Find

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    (Yannis Galanakis/Courtesy of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports/Prosilio Excavation Project)