September/October 2017 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents September/October 2017

FEATURES

The Heights We Go To

The links among extreme environments, genetics, and the human ability to adapt

Painted Worlds

Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche

Lost Kingdom of the Britons

A doomed hillfort in far southwestern Scotland may have been a royal stronghold

To Die Like an Egyptian

An ancient burial shroud offers insights into belief and identity at the beginning of Roman-era Egypt

Landscape of Secrets

Archaeologists confront painful memories of the Spanish Civil War

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

White Horse of the Sun
Off the Grid
Doll Story
Freeze Frame
Last Stand of the Blue Brigade
Where There’s Coal…
Reading Invisible Messages
Disposable Gods
A Princely Update
Fast Food
Andean Copper Age
Capital Gains
Not by Bread Alone

World Roundup

A prehistoric canoe in Louisiana, the Spanish cat-fur trade, an Egyptian’s wooden toe, and escaping Crusader-style

Artifact

A forgotten regiment’s badge of courage

Letter From California

Lessons emerge from the ways in which North American hunter-gatherers managed the landscape around them

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