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Issue 51 - Page 2

Issue 51/Features/Turkey

Turkey: Domuztepe

The popular image of Neolithic communities is of small hamlet-sized groups. Excavation at the vast settlement at Domuztepe has turned this…

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Issue 51/Carriacou

Caribbean: Something cooking on Carriacou

A tiny Caribbean island has produced one of the most diverse collections of prehistoric non-native animal remains ever found in the region.…

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Issue 51/Mexico

Mexico: Mexican pyramid’s first offering

Archaeologists investigating the core of the Pyramid of the Sun, at Teotihuacan on the outskirts of Mexico City, have discovered the ceremonial…

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Issue 51/USA

Alaska: Chinese buckle

An ancient Chinese-style bronze buckle found by a team from the University of Colorado Boulder in Alaska may prove the earliest evidence…

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Issue 51/USA

Smithsonian: Tang Treasures special report

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC has withdrawn from hosting a controversial maritime exhibition. Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds was due…

Issue 51/Opinion

Chris Catling on…

Lion man or woman? In August 1939, archaeologist Otto Völzing was excavating deep inside the Stadel cave in the Schwäbische Alb mountains…

Issue 51/Great Discoveries/Greece

Knossos

Results of the excavations at Knossos surpassed all expectations. Evans revealed a vast palace complex of Middle Bronze Age date , 1300…

Issue 51/Opinion/Thailand

Charles Higham: notes from the field

At a barbecue last year, a former student of mine, who had joined me on my excavations for 20 years, suggested the…

Issue 51/Italy/Travel

Italy: postcard

Tuscany conjures thoughts of the apogee of rich living. Its picturesque villages, graced by grand villas and their pools, serve as summer…

Issue 51/France/Travel

France: Paris Crypte Archaeologique

It is a traveller’s story repeated throughout the decades. The first-time visitor to Paris arrives in the city armed with a checklist…

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Issue 51/Books/Egypt

Egypt: James Henry Breasted

He founded the Oriental Institute in Chicago, was the first American to achieve a doctorate in Egyptology, and his book is an…

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Issue 51/Books

Book review: Photography and Archaeology

Frederick N Bohrer Reaktion Books Ltd, £17.95 Before photography, archaeologists hired ‘tracers’ to copy inscriptions and record finds by hand. Howard Carter…

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Issue 51/Books

Book review: Cities of the Classical World: an atlas and gazetteer of 120 centres of ancient civilisation

Colin McEcedy Allen Lane, £25.00 Alexandria. Athens. Babylon. Carthage. Constantinople. Jerusalem. Colin McEvedy’s contents page reads like a roll-call of some of…

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