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CROATIA

November/December 2012

croatia CROATIA: Neolithic Europeans coveted hunting trophies just like modern hunters. In the remains of a prehistoric home, alongside traces of wood furniture, researchers found a massive set of antlers—arm-length, with 14 points—that may have been hung on the wall as a trophy. They estimate the red deer buck would have weighed close to 500 pounds—a major prize for hunters armed only with stone weapons 6,500 years ago. —Samir S. Patel

IN THIS ISSUE

Features

The Maya Sense of Time

Zeugma After the Flood

Letter from India

From The Trenches

The Desert and the Dead

Fractals and Pyramids

Off the Grid

Mosaics of Huqoq

Medieval Fashion Statement

The Bog Army

Who Came to America First?

Settling Southeast Asia

Livestock for the Afterlife

Running Guns to Irish Rebels

High Rise of the Dead

Diagnosis of Ancient Illness

Pharaoh’s Port?

Peru’s Mysterious Infant Burials

World Roundup

The oldest bow in Europe, domesticated sheep and goats at Namibia’s Leopard Cave, how climate changes fueled Genghis Khan’s invasions, and mistaking matches for ritualistic phallic objects

Artifact

Ceramic beakers were the vessels of choice for the so-called “Black Drink” used at Cahokia by Native Americans in their purification rituals

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