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Issue 47

Issue 47/Egypt/Features

Egyptian Enigma: The Starving of Saqqara

Packed in a crate with artefacts from the Middle East, the eery figures arrived in Montreal, Canada, in the mid 1950s. A…

Issue 47/Features/Libya

Culture Clash: A tale of two Libyas

The present uprising in Libya has focused the world’s attention on the region. But this part of North Africa has a troubled…

Issue 47/Features/Libya

Libya: Libyan Uprisings

The Sirte Basin in northern Libya, the current battleground for Colonel Gaddafi’s troops and rebel civilian forces, is no stranger to conflict.…

Issue 47/Features/Norway

Norway: Searching in Veien

There is a field in Veien where horses’ teeth have been found in cooking pits, and a series of massive long-houses have…

Issue 47/China/Features

Taming China’s Wild Frontier

China’s Han Empire was brought to its knees by powerful nomadic tribes. But just when defeat seemed inevitable, an ingenious new approach…

Issue 47/Features/Turkey

Turkey: Neolithic life at Çatalhöyük

The house-proud Neolithic inhabitants of Çatalhöyük inadvertantly frustrated archaeologists by keeping their homes clean. Now Lisa-Marie Shillito examines an aspect of…

Issue 47/Russia

Siberian island mystery solved

Recent excavations have shown Medieval ruins in the Russian republic of Tuva were monastic and reminiscent of China’s ‘Forbidden City’. Por-Bajin –…

Issue 47

Prehistoric eco-warriors of Asia

Bamboo was probably used as an alternative to stone in South East Asia, scientists believe. The lack of a diverse and sophisticated…

Issue 47/Guatemala

Early Maya ‘Sistine Chapel’

When first discovered in 2001 by the archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, the mural-covered room at San Bartolo, a remote and…

Issue 47

Late date for Pacific expansion

The first settlements on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Hawai’i, and New Zealand have been dated to the period between AD 1190 and…

Issue 47/USA

Proof of first North Americans

First ‘unequivocal proof for pre-Clovis occupation of America’ has been found by researchers at Texas A&M University. Flint knife blades, chisels, and…

Issue 47

‘Most influential archaeologist of his generation’ dies

Lewis Binford, champion of the New Archaeology movement, died on 11 April 2011, at the age of 80 years. The obituary, published…

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