NEW ZEALAND - Archaeology Magazine

NEW ZEALAND

Monday, February 11, 2013

new-zealand-christchurch-pocket-watch NEW ZEALAND: Archaeological sites are often described as “time capsules,” but rarely does the term apply as well as it does to a recent discovery in Christchurch. In the foundations of an office building—demolished as part of the recovery after the city’s deadly 2011 earthquake—archaeologists found a room containing 1,600 artifacts from the 19th century, including a lady’s tiny pocket watch, a pot of ointment, and a variety of pottery and glass fragments. —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