January/February 2015 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents January/February 2015

FEATURES

Top 10 Discoveries of 2014

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

Shipwreck Alley

From wood to steel, from sail to steam, from early pioneers to established industry, the history of the Great Lakes can be found deep beneath Thunder Bay

America's First War

Uncovering evidence of a little known colonial-era conflict that forever altered the dynamics of Native American and European relations in North America

Beyond the Pharaohs

More than a century after its discovery, a tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings is yielding new insights into who was buried in this elite necropolis

Gaul After the Romans

A cemetery in northwestern France is beginning to expand our knowledge of the emergence of the Merovingian dynasty

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DEPARTMENTS

Trenches

The Price of Plunder
Off The Grid
A Tale of Two Railroads
On the Origins of Art
Fancy Footwear
The King is Dead. Long Live the King
Cults of the Bronze Age
Symbolic Neanderthals
Hollywood Exodus
Egypt's Disappearing Animals
Across the Atlantic by Flipper
Viking Treasure Trove
Paleo-escargot
Maya Cities Lost and Found

World Roundup

An ancient toilet seat, grave of a Viking blacksmith, enigmatic earthworks in Kazakhstan, New Zealand’s turtle canoe, Egyptian hair extensions

Letter From Cambodia

Through centuries—and perhaps even millennia—of cultural, political, and environmental change, Phnom Kulen has retained its central role in the spiritual life of a people

Artifact

A Bronze Age dagger from Denmark shows that some materials never go out of style

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