January/February 2017 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents January/February 2017

FEATURES

Top 10 Discoveries of 2016

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

December 7, 1941

The underwater archaeology of the attack on Pearl Harbor

Hoards of the Vikings

Evidence of trade, diplomacy, and vast wealth on an unassuming island in the Baltic Sea

Fire in the Fens

A short-lived settlement provides an unparalleled view of Bronze Age life in eastern England

Seeing Beauty in the Mundane

Looking for traces of a celebrated but unusual artist in suburban Idaho

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

Proteins Solve a Hominin Puzzle
Off the Grid
A Pharaoh’s Last Fleet
The Curse of a Medieval English Well
Discovering Terror
Hungry Minds
Guide to the Afterlife
Japan’s Early Anglers
A Removable Feast
Blue Collar in Ancient Peru
The Monkey Effect
Figure of Distinction
Death by Boomerang

Letter from Laos

New technology is enabling archaeologists to explore a vast but little-studied mortuary complex in war-damaged Laos

World Roundup

Asian metal in Alaska, Oaxaca’s stone crocodile, U-boat vs. fantastic beast, Bronze Age cheese mishap, and a cannabis burial in China

Artifact

How not to get frostbite

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