November/December 2012 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents November/December 2012

FEATURES

The Maya Sense of Time

As one Maya calendar reaches the end of a cycle, we take a look at how an ancient people understood their place in the cosmos

Factory of Wealth

A mint from the Han Dynasty produced billions of coins that enabled vast economic growth and trade along the Silk Road

Zeugma After the Flood

New excavations continue to tell the story of an ancient city at the crossroads between east and west

Down by the Savannah Riverside

By studying ancient landforms, archaeologists are uncovering evidence of a novel hunter-gatherer behavior

Pilgrimage to Sudan

Miracles of Banganarti

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DEPARTMENTS

From The Trenches

The Desert and the Dead
Fractals and Pyramids
Off the Grid
Mosaics of Huqoq
Medieval Fashion Statement
The Bog Army
Who Came to America First?
Settling Southeast Asia
Livestock for the Afterlife
Running Guns to Irish Rebels
High Rise of the Dead
Diagnosis of Ancient Illness
Pharaoh’s Port?
Peru’s Mysterious Infant Burials

World Roundup

The oldest bow in Europe, domesticated sheep and goats at Namibia’s Leopard Cave, how climate changes fueled Genghis Khan’s invasions, and mistaking matches for ritualistic phallic objects

Letter from India

Searching for a new approach to development, tourism, and local needs at the grand medieval city of Hampi

Artifact

Ceramic beakers were the vessels of choice for the so-called “Black Drink” used at Cahokia by Native Americans in their purification rituals

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