From the Trenches

Volume 63 Number 5, September/October 2010

News and Notes from the World of Archaeology

Oil Spill Threatens History Archaeologists are racing to document the Gulf Coast's extensive shell middens, military forts, and historical fishing camps before they are mired in toxic gunk. Digging A French Repast Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri's Lunch Under the Grass (1983) is excavated, offering a particular insight into the pretensions of the French intellectual and artistic elite 30 years ago. Mesoamerica's Pyramid Pioneers What may be Mesoamerica’s oldest known pyramid tomb, the 2,700-year-old crypt of a high-status man who died in his 50s, has been discovered.

World Roundup Recent discoveries around the globe Television Egyptian Idol Museums Where's Cleo? Off the Grid Jerald T. Milanich of the Florida Museum of Natural History suggests a stop at Crystal River Archaeological State Park.

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