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Top 10 Discoveries of 2024 - Archaeology Magazine
Cartonnage Statuette. Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most ...
January/February 2025 - Archaeology Magazine
Lidar mapping has made finding lost cities buried deep within dense jungle much easier than it was decades ago, when archaeologists were forced to traverse thick vegetation on foot.
Features - Ancient DNA Revolution - Archaeology Magazine
A researcher reconstructs an individual’s genome using ancient DNA samples. Each cell in a plant, animal, or person contains millions, or even billions, of DNA base pairs—molecules connected ...
September/October 2024 - Archaeology Magazine
Excavations in a temple known as the Great Basement in the neighborhood of Tlatelolco in Mexico City revealed a stone cist, or burial chamber, beneath the floor near the central altar.
May/June 2024 - Archaeology Magazine
Features May/June 2024. Searching for Lost Cities From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time
November/December 2022 - Archaeology Magazine
(National Tsing Hua University/Facebook) TAIWAN: Construction workers unearthed a 4,000-year-old prehistoric site in Kenting National Park at the southern tip of Taiwan. It contained 51 graves, 10 ...
November/December 2021 - Archaeology Magazine
(Leping Jiang) CHINA: Microfossil residue analysis of ceramic cups found in a 9,000-year-old burial mound at Qiaotou indicates that the dead were sometimes commemorated through ritual beer ...
May/June 2023 - Archaeology Magazine
(Antiquity, F. Campos et al) VIETNAM: A 13-inch-long piece of antler found 30 years ago at the site of Go O Chua in the Mekong Delta may be part of the oldest stringed instrument discovered in ...