May/June 2018 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents May/June 2018

FEATURES

Emblems for the Afterlife

Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos

Global Cargo

Found in the waters off a small Dutch island, a seventeenth-century shipwreck provides an unparalleled view of the golden age of European trade

Cultivating an Arid Landscape

Excavations in a Byzantine village in Israel are raising questions about how and why desert agriculture thrived—and then disappeared

A Sanctuary’s Final Farewell

Excavations at Casas del Turuñuelo tell a tale of ritual destruction in the mythical land of Tartesso

Desert Orca

A geoglyph recently discovered in southern Peru may date to the beginning of the renowned Nazca Lines tradition

Exploring a Prehistoric Borderland

Hunter-gatherers in northern Europe withstood the spread of agriculture for 1,500 years

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DEPARTMENTS

From the Trenches

Conquistador Contagion
Off the Grid
Circle of Life
Norwegian Knight
A Night Out in Leicestershire
The Pirate Book Club
Alternative Deathstyles
Afterlife Under the Waves
No Dice Left Unturned
A Mark of Distinction
Early Buddhism in India
A Bronze Age Landmark
Time’s Arrow
We Are Family

Letter From the Philippines

Archaeologists uncover evidence suggesting rice terraces helped the Ifugao resist Spanish colonization

Artifact

Man of the hours

World Roundup

Taino DNA, island Etruscans, IRA buttons, gate to the afterlife, and the last wild horses

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