Archaeology – May/June 2018 (gnv64)
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Archaeology – May/June 2018
English | 72 pages | True PDF | 13.0 mb
FEATURES
26 CULTIVATING AN ARID LANDSCAPE
Excavations in a Byzantine village in Israel are raising questions about how and why desert agriculture thrived—and then disappeared BY SARA TOTH STUB
32 GLOBAL CARGO
Found in the waters off a small Dutch island, a seventeenth-century shipwreck provides an unparalleled view of the golden age of European trade BY TRACY E. ROBEY
38 A SANCTUARY’S FINAL FAREWELL
Excavations at Casas del Turuñuelo tell a tale of ritual destruction in the mythical land of Tartessos BY JASON URBANUS
42 DESERT ORCA
A geoglyph recently discovered in southern Peru may date to the beginning of the renowned Nazca Lines tradition BY DANIEL WEISS
44 EXPLORING A PREHISTORIC BORDERLAND
Hunter-gatherers in northern Europe withstood the spread of agriculture for 1,500 years BY ERIC A. POWELL
48 EMBLEMS FOR THE AFTERLIFE
Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos BY MARLEY BROWN
DEPARTMENTS
4 EDITOR’S LETTER
6 FROM THE PRESIDENT
8 LETTERS Germanic linguistics, a toolmaker’s recognition, and surviving the Silk Road
9 FROM THE TRENCHES Iron Age feasts, a Norwegian knight, pirated reading material, the mummy brothers, and loaded dice
24 WORLD ROUNDUP Taino DNA, island Etruscans, IRA buttons, gate to the afterlife, and the last wild horses
54 LETTER FROM THE PHILIPPINES Archaeologists uncover evidence suggesting rice terraces helped the Ifugao resist Spanish colonization BY KAREN COATES
68 ARTIFACT Man of the hours
COVER: The recently excavated bones of dozens of animals sacrificed by the people of the mysterious Tartessos culture PHOTO: BUILDING TARTESSOS PROJECT
Archaeology – May/June 2018
English | 72 pages | True PDF | 13.0 mb
FEATURES
26 CULTIVATING AN ARID LANDSCAPE
Excavations in a Byzantine village in Israel are raising questions about how and why desert agriculture thrived—and then disappeared BY SARA TOTH STUB
32 GLOBAL CARGO
Found in the waters off a small Dutch island, a seventeenth-century shipwreck provides an unparalleled view of the golden age of European trade BY TRACY E. ROBEY
38 A SANCTUARY’S FINAL FAREWELL
Excavations at Casas del Turuñuelo tell a tale of ritual destruction in the mythical land of Tartessos BY JASON URBANUS
42 DESERT ORCA
A geoglyph recently discovered in southern Peru may date to the beginning of the renowned Nazca Lines tradition BY DANIEL WEISS
44 EXPLORING A PREHISTORIC BORDERLAND
Hunter-gatherers in northern Europe withstood the spread of agriculture for 1,500 years BY ERIC A. POWELL
48 EMBLEMS FOR THE AFTERLIFE
Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos BY MARLEY BROWN
DEPARTMENTS
4 EDITOR’S LETTER
6 FROM THE PRESIDENT
8 LETTERS Germanic linguistics, a toolmaker’s recognition, and surviving the Silk Road
9 FROM THE TRENCHES Iron Age feasts, a Norwegian knight, pirated reading material, the mummy brothers, and loaded dice
24 WORLD ROUNDUP Taino DNA, island Etruscans, IRA buttons, gate to the afterlife, and the last wild horses
54 LETTER FROM THE PHILIPPINES Archaeologists uncover evidence suggesting rice terraces helped the Ifugao resist Spanish colonization BY KAREN COATES
68 ARTIFACT Man of the hours
COVER: The recently excavated bones of dozens of animals sacrificed by the people of the mysterious Tartessos culture PHOTO: BUILDING TARTESSOS PROJECT