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Issue 21

The Dakhleh oasis lies virtually in the middle of modern Egypt, surrounded by the sands of the Sahara. The oasis is vast, with a current population of some 70,000. The oasis has always been popular: archaeologists belonging to the Dakhleh Oasis Project have identified scores of human occupation sites from prehistory through to classical times and onwards. In our lead story - Dakhleh: Exploring an Oasis - the team reports on their wide-ranging work including their excavation an Ancient Egyptian temple, the first Egyptian temple to be cleared for a century.
We then move to America where we discover the true meaning of 'pipe-dreams' as we chart the first English colonisation of North America. Back in 1607, the first ship of English immigrants from London arrived in James Towne, Virginia. The voyagers planned to make big money from the riches believed were available in America. Soon, there began a steady flow of those in search for gold and other precious metals; however the only product to make a profit was smoking tobacco, the original Virginia Gold.
Next, we offer our archaeological highlights from China where we spent two weeks this autumn visiting some of the land's key sites including the terracotta army and Peking Man's Cave.
In 1909, Miss Dorothea M.A. Bate of the London Natural History Museum gave a formal description of a new species, Myotragus balearicus: a tiny goat the size of a mouse that once thrived on the Balearic islands. Subsequent work has shown that the mouse-goat existed for millions of years developing in blissful island isolation, only to be wiped out with the arrival of humans on the Balearics around 5000 years ago. Scientists, Jelle Reumer and Jacqueline Waldren, unravel the story.
For the past 40 years or so, Georg Gerster has been taking aerial photographs of world sites. So highly-rated are these photographs that the British Museum has dedicated its first ever photographic exhibition to Gerster's work. We provide a taster of some of the photographer's archaeo-shots.
There is also a postcard from Richard Hodges who writes of the intrepid work going on in Cape Styllo, a tract of no-man's land between Greece and Albania. Meanwhile, David Miles considers the impact of tourism on the architecture and heritage of Venice.
Finally, we return the desert with a feature on the work of Susan Searight, a British archaeologist who now lives in Morocco and has been focussing on Moroccan rock-art.

Issue 21

CWA 21

CWA 21 was published in February 2007 and contained articles on the Dhakleh Oasis in the Egyptian desert and how it changed…

Issue 21/Egypt/Features

Dakhleh, Exploring an Oasis

The wide-ranging archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis deep in the Western Desert of Egypt…

Issue 21/Features/USA

London 1606 to Virginia 1607

The early history of the first English settlement in America - as revealed in a new exhibition at London's Museum in Docklands…

Issue 21/Features/UK

Tempus fugit: aerial photographs of Georg Gerster

Breath-taking aerial photographs of world site - including the Acropolis at Athens - taken by Georg Gerster and exhibited at the British…

Issue 21/Features/Spain

Myotragus Balearicus: Extinction of Mouse-Goats

The tiny 'mouse-goat' evolved in relative isolation on the Balearic islands over some five million years but died out around 5000 years…

Issue 21/Features/Italy

Venice: Archaeology and Architecture

Chief Archaeological Adviser to English Heritage, David Miles, considers the archaeology and architecture of Venice and the impact of tourism thereon…

Issue 21/Features/Morocco

Morocco: an Archaeologist in Casablanca

Susan Searight writes of her work in Morocco including her involvement with a project that uses rock-art to explore ongoing climate change…

Issue 21/China/Features

China, Splendours of the Far East

CWA's travel focus on the archaeological and heritage highlights of northern China…

Issue 21/Mexico

Oldest Writing Discovered on Boulder

The oldest known writing in the Americas has been discovered dating to 900 BC…

Issue 21/Austria

Austria: Life as an Early Farmer

Two ancient sites in Austria are investigated to discover what was life was like for some of Europe's earliest farmers…

Issue 21/Italy

Pompeii Paint Problem

New scientific research is attempting to discern why Pompeii's paintings are turning black after excavation…

Issue 21/Albania/Travel

Cape Styllo

Richard Hodges sends his regular archaeological news, this time from Cape Styllo, a 'no-man's land' between Greece and Albania…

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