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Issue 14 - Page 2

Calima is visually stunning. Calima is coffee-country: a balmy corner of South America's Colombia. Calima is also famed for its pre-conquest gold, fashioned into fabulous beasts, jewellery, face-masks and a medley of other ornaments. However, most of this gold has been found as the result of looting by 20th century settlers, representing a massive loss to the archaeology of the area. This prompted the formation of the Pro-Calima Foundation in 1979 and since then, the Foundation has been undertaking pioneering research to dig and document the material-culture of this distant land. The magazine opens with the resultant feature: Calima, land of Gold and Shamans.
Moving closer afield, the Graeco-Roman city of Butrint in Albania is one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world. Modern development has been kept firmly at bay and excavations have revealed not only the Greek centre and the late antique palace but also the Roman city which is finally emerging on the other side of the channel. Butrint however, is best seen from the air, and now two intrepid flyers - one using a kite, the other going aloft in a

Issue 14/Colombia/Features

Calima, Land of Gold and Shamans

Digging Calima and its surrounding area, a bountiful corner of Colombia rich with pre-conquest treasures…

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Issue 14

Christmas Books round-up

For the Books Section of Current World Archaeology, we asked this question of a number of distinguished archaeologists. We asked for about…

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Issue 14/Exhibition/Greece

The Search for Homer’s Ithaca

New clues point to location of Odysseus' island…

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Issue 14/Exhibition/Jordan

Just Desserts for Lawrence?

To mark the 70th anniversary of his death the Imperial War Museum is hosting a new exhibition on his life…

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