November/December 2016 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents November/December 2016

FEATURES

Samhain Revival

Looking for the roots of Halloween in Ireland’s Boyne Valley

Expanding the Story

New discoveries are overturning long-held assumptions and revealing previously ignored complexities at the desert castle of Khirbet al-Mafjar

The Temple Builders of Malta

How an isolated island culture became Europe’s most sophisticated Neolithic civilization

Korea’s Half Moon Palace

An unexpected source begins to tell the story of a long-forgotten ancient Asian royal residence

A Last Day, Reclaimed

Called the Great War in its day for its unparalleled scope and bloodshed, World War I still has stories to tell of both violence and humanity

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

Piltdown’s Lone Forger
Off the Grid
Codex Subtext
The Rabbit Farms of Teotihuacán
Murder on the Mountain?
Breaking Cahokia’s Glass Ceiling
Evolve and Catch Fire
Coast over Corridor
Ötzi’s Sartorial Splendor
And They’re Off!
The Blood of the King
China’s Legendary Flood
Shifting Sands
Man Meets Dog, Both Meet Death

Letter from Maryland

The highly personal archaeology of enslavement on a tobacco plantation

World Roundup

Maya victory monument, Neanderthal cannibals, Paleolithic smorgasbord, King Tut’s meteor dagger, and Melanesian tattooing

Artifact

A Cambridge don’s magic shoe

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