January/February 2013 Issue

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    Top 10 Discoveries of 2012

    ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling stories

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    Neolithic Europe’s Remote Heart

    One thousand years of spirituality, innovation, and social development emerge from a ceremonial center on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney

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    Adam Stanford/Aerial Cam
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    The Water Temple of Inca-Caranqui

    Hydraulic engineering was the key to winning the hearts and minds of a conquered people

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    Caranqui-opener
    (Courtesy Tamara L. Bray)
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    Mohenjo-Daro’s New Story

    What may be the Bronze Age’s largest city lies on the plains of Pakistan

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    Gateway to the Netherworld

    Spectacular finds reveal the millennia-long history of one of Egypt’s most important sanctuaries

Letter from France

Letter from France

Structural Integrity

Nearly 20 years of investigation at two rock shelters in southwestern France reveal the well-organized domestic spaces of Europe’s earliest modern humans

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Artifact

Artifacts

Pacific Islands Trident

A mid-nineteenth-century trident illustrates a changing marine ecosystem in the South Pacific

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(Catalog Number 99071 © The Field Museum, [CL000_99071_Overall], Photographer Christopher J. Philipp)

Digs & Discoveries

Off the Grid

Off the Grid January/February 2013

Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands

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