July/August 2013 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents July/August 2013

FEATURES

The First Vikings

Two remarkable ships may show that the Viking storm was brewing long before their assault on England and the continent

Miniature Pyramids of Sudan

Archaeologists excavating on the banks of the Nile have uncovered a necropolis where hundreds of small pyramids once stood

Salt and the City

How a prehistoric saltworks laid the foundations for Europe’s oldest town more than 7,000 years ago

Deadly Retreat

A collapsed WW I tunnel in France reveals a frozen moment on the Western Front

Lost Tombs

In search of history's greatest rulers

A Future for Icons of the Past

Masterpieces of Greek pottery come face-to-face with state-of-the-art technology

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

Not Quite Ancient
Off the Grid
Chilling Discovery at Jamestown
Origins of the Maya
Seeds of Europe's Family Tree
France’s Wealthy Warriors
Did the “Father of History” Get It Wrong?
Apollo Returns from the Abyss
Afterlife of a Dignitary
Spain's Lead-Lined Lakes
In Style in the Stone Age
Portals to the Underworld
Roman London Underground
Whale-Barnacle Barbecue
The Human Mosaic

World Roundup

The first evidence of cooking pots in Japan, Indonesia’s earliest farmers, a 600-year-old Chinese coin found on a Kenyan island, and how El Niño plagued South America’s Moche people

Letter from China

Looting reaches across the centuries—and modern China’s economic strata

Artifact

A 13th-century limestone sundial is one of the earliest timekeeping devices discovered in Egypt

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