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Top 10 Discoveries of 2021

Features January/February 2022

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
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  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2021 January/February 2022

    Golden City

    Luxor, Egypt

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    (KHALED DESOUKI/Getty Images)

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    World’s First Artists

    Quesang Hot Spring, Tibet

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    (Courtesy David Zhang)

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    Earliest Leatherworkers

    Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco

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    (Contrebandiers Project 2009)

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    The First Americans

    White Sands, New Mexico

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    (Dan Odess, Courtesy National Park Service)

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    Oldest Animal Art

    Northern Saudi Arabia

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    (Courtesy Guillaume Charloux, French National Center for Scientific Research)

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    Bronze Age Map

    Leuhan, France

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    (© Denis Gliksman, INRAP)

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    Rare Boundary Marker

    Rome, Italy

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    (Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali)

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    When the Vikings Crossed the Atlantic

    Newfoundland, Canada

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    (Wolfgang Kaehler/Alamy Stock Photo)

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    Crusader Mass Grave

    Sidon, Lebanon

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    (Allen Brown/Alamy Stock Photo)

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    Slave Tag

    Charleston, South Carolina

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    (College of Charleston)

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At Face Value

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  • Letter from the Galapagos Islands January/February 2022

    Transforming the Enchanted Isles

    Archaeologists uncover the remote archipelago’s forgotten human history

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    (Courtesy Historical Ecology of the Galapagos Islands Project)

  • Artifacts January/February 2022

    Roman Key Handle

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    (University of Leicester Archaeological Services)

  • Digs & Discoveries January/February 2022

    The Roots of Violence

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    (Courtesy of the Wendorf Archives of the British Museum)

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    Tamil Royal Palace

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    (Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department)