Shifting Sands

Digs & Discoveries November/December 2016

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At least 17 petroglyphs, created more than 400 years ago by the aboriginal inhabitants of the Waianae Coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, were only briefly revealed in July 2016. The petroglyphs had been carved into a flat slab of stone on the shore, and are usually covered by sand. A shift in the sand exposed them for a few days, but archaeologists from the State Historic Preservation Division and the U.S. Army are thinking about how to protect them the next time they appear.

  • Features November/December 2016

    Expanding the Story

    New discoveries are overturning long-held assumptions and revealing previously ignored complexities at the desert castle of Khirbet al-Mafjar

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    (Sara Toth Stub/Courtesy The Rockefeller Archaeological Museum)
  • Letter from Maryland November/December 2016

    Belvoir's Legacy

    The highly personal archaeology of enslavement on a tobacco plantation

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    (Courtesy Maryland Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration)
  • Artifacts November/December 2016

    18th-Century Men's Buckle Shoe

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    (Courtesy Dave Webb: Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
  • Digs & Discoveries November/December 2016

    Piltdown’s Lone Forger

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    (Arthur Claude (1867–1951) / Geological Society, London, UK / Bridgeman Images)