September/October 2017 Issue

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  • Features

    The Heights We Go To

    The links among extreme environments, genetics, and the human ability to adapt

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    (Pawel Opaska / Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Features

    Painted Worlds

    Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche

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    (Courtesy Lisa Trever)
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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

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(Justin Sullivan / Gettyimages)

Artifact

Artifacts

Gilded Copper Color Disc

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(Courtesy Illinois State Military Museum)

Digs & Discoveries

  • Digs & Discoveries

    White Horse of the Sun

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    (Skyscan Photolibrary / Alamy)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Doll Story

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    (Courtesy Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Freeze Frame

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    (Courtesy Antarctic Heritage Trust)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Last Stand of the Blue Brigade

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    (Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Juraj Lipták)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Where There’s Coal…

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    (Courtesy Krzysztof Starnawski)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Reading Invisible Messages

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    (Courtesy the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University (photographer: Michael Cordonsky) and of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Disposable Gods

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    (Adam Oleksiak/Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    A Princely Update

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    (© Denis Gliksman, INRAP)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Fast Food

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  • Digs & Discoveries

    Andean Copper Age

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    (Courtesy Leticia Inés Cortés)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Capital Gains

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    (Courtesy Héctor Montaño/INAH)
  • Digs & Discoveries

    Not by Bread Alone

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    (Courtesy Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology)

Off the Grid

Off the Grid September/October 2017

Los Adaes, Louisiana

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(Bridgeman Art Library)

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