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Issue 48

Issue 48/Celebrating World Heritage/Features/Peru

Machu Picchu: Cradle of Gold

Exactly 100 years ago, the explorer Hiram Bingham found Machu Picchu on the eastern slopes of Peru’s soaring Andes mountains. He was…

Issue 48/Features/Spain

Numantia: New Model Legion

Numantia in north-eastern Spain is currently the most important Roman Republican military site in the world. Century-old landmark excavations have just been…

Issue 48/Features/Spain

Mallorca: On the Edge of Empire

During the Dark Ages on the island of Mallorca, culture and religion clashed between the fading Pagans of Rome and the Byzantine…

Issue 48/Features/Norway

Norway: The First Oil Age

The jagged coast of Northern Scandinavia is littered with strange stone-lined pits once thought to be ancient graves. In fact, they are…

Issue 48/Afghanistan/Features

Afghanistan: A Divided Path

Ten years after the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, what is happening to archaeology in this war-torn country? Joanie Meharry reports…

Issue 48/Features/Greece

Crete: Olives

Olive trees thrive on poor soil where little else will grow, which means land that would otherwise be barren can produce food.…

Issue 48/Brazil

Amazon culture comes to Denver

Shaped from the clays of the Amazon estuary, the elaborately decorated red, white, and black ceramics of the Marajó culture are a…

Issue 48/South Africa

Stay at home males and roaming females

The results of a major study of early hominid teeth suggest that our male ancestors tended to stick around close to where…

Issue 48/Germany

Germany: Bronze Age Battle Site

Weapons, horse bones, and human skeletal remains have been found in the bed of the River Tollense, in north-eastern Germany, suggesting that…

Issue 48/Russia

New Dates for Neanderthal Extinction

Researchers at the University of Oxford and at University College Cork, in Ireland, have dated a Neanderthal fossil discovered in a significant…

Issue 48/Peru

Machu Picchu: Artefacts Returned

The 100th anniversary of the ‘rediscovery’ of Machu Picchu in July 1911  has been marked by the return to Peru of some…

Issue 48

Professor Donny George 1950-2011

Donny George Youkhanna, who died in March following a heart attack, was described as ‘one of the brightest experts on the history…

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