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ITALY

Monday, February 11, 2013

italy-favignana-sicily ITALY: Today the islands of the Mediterranean are practically synonymous with seafood. But for some of the early residents, the bounty of the sea wasn’t on the menu. Collagen analysis of human remains found in a cave on Favignana, an island west of Sicily, shows that settlers there 20,000 to 25,000 years ago relied on land animals—deer and boar—rather than fish, even as rising seas isolated the island. They may have lacked well-developed fishing technology. —Samir S. Patel

IN THIS ISSUE

Features

Pirates of the Original Panama Canal

Archaeology Island

Letter from Cambodia

From the Trenches

Saving Northern Ireland's Noble Bog

Off the Grid

Mussel Mass in Lake Ontario

Europe's First Carpenters

Medici Mystery

Deconstructing a Zapotec Warlord Figurine

Messages from Quarantine

Let Slip the Pigeons of War

The First Spears

Burials and Reburials in Ancient Pakistan

Life (According to Gut Microbes)

Mapping Maya Cornfields

Inside a Painted Tomb

Minoan Mountaintop Manse

A Prehistoric Cocktail Party

World Roundup

Correcting the record on Tycho Brahe, a 2.5-mile-long labyrinth among Peru’s Nazca Lines, Ramesses III may have been the victim of a “Harem Conspiracy,” and northwestern India identified as the birthplace of the Romani