Jan/Feb 2013 - Archaeology Magazine

A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America

Table of Contents Jan/Feb 2013

FEATURES

Top 10 Discoveries of 2012

ARCHAEOLOGY's editors reveal the year's most compelling stories

Mohenjo-Daro's New Story

What may be the Bronze Age's largest city lies on the plains of Pakistan

Neolithic Europe's Remote Heart

One thousand years of spirituality, innovation, and social development emerge from a ceremonial center on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney

The Water Temple of Inca-Caranqui

Was hydraulic engineering the key to winning the hearts and minds of a conquered people?

Gateway to the Netherworld

Spectacular finds reveal the millennia-long history of one of Egypt's most important sanctuaries

DEPARTMENTS

From The Trenches

The Rehabilitation of Richard III
Masked Men
Fixing Ancient Toothaches
Off the Grid
Obsidian and Empire
Ancient Alchemy?
Kidnapped in Copenhagen
The Emperor’s Orchids
Nazi Iron Man Buddha?
Maya Mural Miracle
Neutron Beams and Lead Shot
Site of a Forgotten War
Denisovan DNA
Turning Back the Human Clock

World Roundup

San Francisco's earthquake-ravaged City Hall unearthed, Dakar floodwaters reveal Neolithic artifacts, the source of Angkor Wat's sandstone blocks

Letter from France

Nearly 20 years of investigation at two rock shelters in southwestern France reveal the well-organized domestic spaces of Europe's earliest modern humans

Artifact

A mid-nineteenth-century trident illustrates a changing marine ecosystem in the South Pacific

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