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London 2012
Neolithic Rituals
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Tomb of the Chantress
A newly discovered burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings provides a rare glimpse into the life of an ancient Egyptian singer
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Prehistoric Lives
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A 19th-century Speed Boat
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Vasa's Curious Imbalance
As their focus shifts from preservation to documentation, researchers are learning new lessons from the majestic Vasa— a warship monumental in its ambition, its failure, and its role in maritime archaeology
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Automated Site Mapping
Computational analysis of satellite images detects previously overlooked human settlements
Letter from Mexico
Letter from Mexico
Archaeology, Interrupted
An archaeologist's daughter surveys the rich cultural heritage of northern Mexico—and the impact of violence on researchers working there
Artifact
Artifacts
Anglo-Saxon Pectoral
Digs & Discoveries
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Athens Murder Court
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Preacher-Swordsman-Turncoat
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Digs & Discoveries
The Origins of Domestic Cattle
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Digs & Discoveries
Investigating a Decades-Old Disappearance
In 1973, Deseret Magazine showed a photograph of 11 pre-historic figurines on display at exhibit at the Zions First National Bank, Carbon-Emery Division, in Utah. By 1974, when the College of Eastern Utah (CEU) Prehistoric Museum included the figurines in their centennial celebration display, there were only 10. What became of the 11th figurine has been a mystery ever since.
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Digs & Discoveries
The Pilling Collection
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Digs & Discoveries
How Do You Say "Comb" in West Germanic?
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Digs & Discoveries
A Little Scottish Ditty
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Beachcombing in the Mesolithic
Mesolithic artifacts found submerged at Horsens Fjord in Denmark.
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Digs & Discoveries
What Ailed the Iceman?
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Butchering Big Game
Recent finds and analyses of remains of extinct megafauna—including a massive ground sloth and juvenile mammoth—have stories to tell about how early humans secured and butchered these long-gone species.
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Roman Ship's Secret Cargo
Italian archaeologists have uncovered evidence of smuggling between North Africa and Italy on a third-century A.D. shipwreck off the west coast of Sicily. The most complete Roman ship ever found, the 52-by-16-foot merchant vessel was carrying amphorae filled with walnuts, figs, olives, wine, oil, and fish sauce from Tunisia to Rome when it sank.
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Dawn of the Aztecs, Written in Stone
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V-2 Rocket from the Muck
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Digs & Discoveries
We Didn't Start the Fire... Homo erectus Did
Around the World
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IRAQ
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PERU
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ETHIOPIA
IRAQ
IRAQ: Understanding the climate of the past often helps with interpretation of archaeological discoveries. A review of ancient documents written between A.D. 816 and 1009 reveals a pattern of unusual weather occurrences in Baghdad, particularly cold-weather events such as hailstorms, frozen rivers, and snow during a certain period of the 10th century. Although it snowed in Baghdad in 2008, such cold snaps are rarer today.
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The Ziggurat Endures
An American soldier reflects on his experience at the ancient city of Ur
PERU
PERU: Some pre- Columbian South Americans lived in groups called allya and buried their dead together in monuments called chullpas. At the site of Tompullo 2, scientists gathered genetic material from six chullpas to determine how the people in each were related. Results show that the ancient Andeans are closely related to modern ones, and that chullpas were family graves based around a male lineage, suggesting allya were structured the same way. But not necessarily— one grave contained the remains of three related men with different paternal lineages.
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ETHIOPIA: Dating to around 3.4 million years ago, foot bones show that Australopithecus afarensis—"Lucy" and her kin—had company. The new foot appears to be substantially different from an A. afarensis foot. Where Lucy had feet adapted to more-or-less humanlike walking, this new hominin would have been adept at climbing trees. Until now, A. afarensis was thought to be the only hominin in the region at the time.
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Paleoanthropologists in Ethiopia may have discovered the earliest evidence of stone-tool use.
