TAIWAN - Archaeology Magazine

TAIWAN

May/June 2015

World Roundup Taiwan TAIWAN: A fisherman recently pulled up a surprise catch: a prehistoric hominin jawbone. The robust bone could have belonged to Homo erectus or to the Denisovan people known from a cave site in Russia, but its particularly thick dentition suggests it could be different from both. That, and its surprisingly young age (around 190,000 years old), hint at an unexpected diversity of ancient human lineages around the periphery of Asia, even as attributes of modern humans began to emerge elsewhere.—Samir S. Patel

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World Roundup

Badgers for dinner in Neolithic Spain, the search for Doctor Syntax, a rare coffin emerges in Egypt, Ukraine’s prehistoric McMansions, and fishing for Homo erectus

Artifact

A pagan palindrome in a Christian capital shows how old beliefs die hard

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Features

The Cult of Amun

The Minoans of Crete

Letter From Hawaii

From the Trenches

The Charred Scrolls of Herculaneum

Off The Grid

Viking Trading or Raiding?

Telecom History Deep Beneath the Pacific

How Grass Became Maize

Medicine on the High Seas

Cause of Death

A Western Wiki-pedia

Catching Fire and Keeping It

Oysters for the Earth Goddess

Ant Explorers

A Soul of a City

A Slice of Parasitic Life

The Price of a Warship

Medieval Leather, Vellum, and Fur

A Shipwreck in Drydock

Mongol Fashion Statement

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