May/June 2016 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents May/June 2016

FEATURES

The World's Oldest Writing

Used by scribes for more than three millennia, cuneiform writing opens a dramatic window onto ancient Mesopotamian life

An Overlooked Inca Wonder

Thousands of aligned holes in Peru’s Pisco Valley have attracted the attention of archaeologists

Masters of the Ancient Mediterranean

The rare discovery of a Phoenician shipwreck off southeastern Spain is providing new information about their centuries-long dominance of the sea

Coup de Grâce for a Desert Castle

A group of murder victims discovered in a frontier stronghold in Jordan may define the last chapter in its history

A Myth in Stone

The delicate work of conserving a 2,000-year-old story

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

Dressing for the Ages
Off the Grid
Let a Turtle Be Your Psychopomp
The Price of Tea in China
What Happened After 1492?
Women in a Temple of Death
Islam North of the Pyrenees
Mesolithic Markings
Vikings, Worms, and Emphysema
Medieval River Engineering
The Death of Joe the Quilter
Egypt’s Immigrant Elite
The First Casus Belli

Letter from Florida

In Florida's Panhandle, tribal leaders and archaeologists reach into the past to help preserve a native community's identity

World Roundup

Ancient Southwestern footprints, Salem’s witch executions, fermented Mesolithic fish dish, Siberian mammoth hunt, and a seven-foot-tall Aussie bird

Artifact

The Wild Man of the medieval world

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