Top 10 Discoveries of 2018

Features January/February 2019

ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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    The First Bakers

    Shubayqa, Jordan

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    (Photo by Alexis Pantos)
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    Oldest Sketch

    Blomboschfontein Nature Reserve, South Africa

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    (Courtesy Magnus Haaland)
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    An Eccentric Artifact

    Prêles, Switzerland

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    (© Service archéologique du canton de Berne/Philippe Joner)
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    Bronze Age Plague

    Samara, Russia

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    (V.V. Kondrashin and V.A. Tsybin/Nature Communications)
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    Early Americans

    Florence, Texas

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    (Produced by N Velchoff ©The Gault School of Archaeological Research)
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    Epic Find

    Olympia, Greece

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    (Copyright: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports/Archaeological Receipta Fund & Ephorate of Antiquities of Olympia)
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    Return to Pompeii

    Pompeii, Italy

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    (Pasquale Sorrentino, Courtesy Jason Urbanus)
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    Mummy Workshop

    Saqqara, Egypt

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    (Ramadan Hussein, Saqqara Saite Tombs Project)
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    Hominin Hybrid

    Denisova Cave, Russia

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    (Thomas Higham/University of Oxford)
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    Ancient Shipwreck

    Black Sea

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    (Courtesy Black Sea Maritime Archaeological Project)
  • Artifacts November/December 2018

    Russian Canteen

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    (Courtesy Copyright David Kobialka/Antiquity)
  • Around the World November/December 2018

    CHINA

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    (Courtesy Zhouyong Sun and Jing Shao)
  • Digs & Discoveries November/December 2018

    The American Canine Family Tree

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    (Photo by Del Baston/Courtesy of the Center for American Archeology)
  • Features November/December 2018

    Reimagining the Crusades

    A detailed picture of more than two centuries of European Christian life in the Holy Land is emerging from new excavations at monasteries, towns, cemeteries, and some of the world’s most enduring castles

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    (Peter Horree/Alamy Stock Photo)