Features From the Issue
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The Heights We Go To
The links among extreme environments, genetics, and the human ability to adapt
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Lost Kingdom of the Britons
A doomed hillfort in far southwestern Scotland may have been a royal stronghold
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To Die Like an Egyptian
An ancient burial shroud offers insights into belief and identity at the beginning of Roman-era Egypt
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Landscape of Secrets
Archaeologists confront painful memories of the Spanish Civil War
Letter from California
Letter from California
The Ancient Ecology of Fire
Lessons emerge from the ways in which North American hunter-gatherers managed the landscape around them
Artifact
Artifacts
Gilded Copper Color Disc
Digs & Discoveries
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White Horse of the Sun
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Doll Story
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Freeze Frame
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Last Stand of the Blue Brigade
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Where There’s Coal…
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Reading Invisible Messages
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Disposable Gods
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A Princely Update
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Fast Food
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Andean Copper Age
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Capital Gains
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Not by Bread Alone
(Courtesy Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology)
Off the Grid
Off the Grid September/October 2017
Los Adaes, Louisiana
Around the World
Explore
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AUSTRALIA
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA
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ISRAEL
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA: A student on a university excursion to Rottnest Island off the coast of Perth found a rare green glass spearhead shaped by one of the island’s former Aboriginal prisoners. Between 1838 and 1931, thousands of Aboriginal men and boys were incarcerated on the island, where many of them died from disease and malnutrition. Spearheads, fabricated from glass or ceramics, were used by the prison population for trade and perhaps to hunt quokkas, small wallaby-like marsupials. —Jason Urbanus
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: An organization dedicated to finding missing WWII soldiers and aircraft located two B-25 American bombers that had been lost in the Pacific for more than 70 years. While the existence of one of the planes had been previously known but never scientifically documented, the other was discovered with the help of historical archives, conversations with locals, and extensive surveying of four square miles of seafloor using sonar scanners, high-definition imagers, and underwater robots. —Jason Urbanus
ISRAEL
ISRAEL: Apparently even 800 years ago, Crusader forces were aware of the concept of always leaving yourself a way out of a sticky situation. Conservation and restoration work in the old city of Tiberias exposed a secret escape tunnel that once connected the 12th-century Crusader citadel directly with the harbor on the Sea of Galilee. The surviving 21-foot section may have been used during times of turmoil, especially when the fortress was besieged by the Muslim general Saladin in 1187. —Jason Urbanus