September/October 2015 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents September/October 2015

FEATURES

Golden House of an Emperor

How archaeologists are saving Nero’s fabled pleasure palace

New York's Original Seaport

Traces of the city’s earliest beginnings as an economic and trading powerhouse lie just beneath the streets of South Street Seaport

Cultural Revival

Excavations near a Yup’ik village in Alaska are helping its people reconnect with the epic stories and practices of their ancestors

Mexico’s Enigmatic Figurines

Until now, some of Mesoamerica’s most intriguing artifacts have been much admired, but little understood

Reclaiming Lost Identities

Life and death in a workhouse during Ireland’s Great Famine

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

Bronze Age Ireland’s Taste in Gold
Off the Grid
A Rare Bird
Atacama’s Decaying Mummies
Bronze Age Traveler
Great Lakes Shipwreck Spotting
Early Parrots in the Southwest
The Red Lady of El Mirón
For the Love of a Noblewoman
Blood on the Ice
Under the Rug
What’s in a Name?
A Place to Hide the Bodies
“T” Marks the Spot
As American as Sliced Bacon in a Can
Surely You Joust?

Letter From England

Graffiti from the Middle Ages provides insight into personal expressions of faith in medieval England

World Roundup

Maya city zoning, trophy skulls in Bolivia, saving the Spanish Armada, an Indus migration, and Papua New Guinea’s smoked mummies

Artifact

The dragon that guarded Xanadu

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