Features From the Issue
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Shipwreck Alley
From wood to steel, from sail to steam, from early pioneers to established industry, the history of the Great Lakes can be found deep beneath Thunder Bay
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America's First War
Uncovering evidence of a little known colonial-era conflict that forever altered the dynamics of Native American and European relations in North America
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Beyond the Pharaohs
More than a century after its discovery, a tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings is yielding new insights into who was buried in this elite necropolis
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Gaul After the Romans
A cemetery in northwestern France is beginning to expand our knowledge of the emergence of the Merovingian dynasty
Letter From Cambodia
Letter From Cambodia
Storied Landscape
Through centuries—and perhaps even millennia—of cultural, political, and environmental change, Phnom Kulen has retained its central role in the spiritual life of a people
Artifact
Artifacts
Dagger
Digs & Discoveries
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The Price of Plunder
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A Tale of Two Railroads
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On the Origins of Art
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Fancy Footwear
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The King is Dead. Long Live the King
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Cults of the Bronze Age
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Symbolic Neanderthals
(Francesco d’Errico) -
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Hollywood Exodus
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Egypt's Disappearing Animals
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Across the Atlantic by Flipper
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Viking Treasure Trove
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Paleo-escargot
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Maya Cities Lost and Found
(Aleš Marsetič/Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Off the Grid
Off the Grid January/February 2015
Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada
Around the World
Explore
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NEW ZEALAND
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KAZAKHSTAN
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EGYPT
NEW ZEALAND
NEW ZEALAND: Following a storm, a large piece of a 600-year-old canoe emerged from a beach on South Island. Now undergoing conservation and study, the canoe suggests connections with places across the South Pacific. It is made of local black pine, but employs a sophisticated oceangoing design with ribs and a girder, and has a carving of a turtle on the hull. Both the design and carving were unknown or rare in New Zealand at the time, and represent some sort of cultural continuity with the rest of Polynesia. —Samir S. Patel
KAZAKHSTAN
KAZAKHSTAN: Using Google Earth and satellite imagery, scientists have recently found some 50 geoglyphs, some up to a quarter-mile across, made up of patterns of discrete mounds, in the northern steppes. Excavations, remote sensing, and other studies are under way. It appears there are no structures buried within the mounds, and the purpose of the enigmatic earthworks remains unknown. They may help track early human migration across the region. —Samir S. Patel
EGYPT
EGYPT: In a study of more than 100 skulls excavated from the site of Amarna, some 28 had remains of preserved hair, which is allowing a unique look into hairstyles and ethnicity in this part of ancient Egypt 3,300 years ago. Among them were several with extensions braided into the natural hair, including one on which there were approximately 70 extensions fastened in different places and layers. —Samir S. Patel