ARCHAEOLOGY magazine offers readers incisive reporting, vivid storytelling, compelling photography – and the latest news from around the globe – all devoted to exploring the world’s ancient past. Whether reporting from a dive on an Arctic shipwreck, trekking through Afghanistan, or digging just beneath Beirut, ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors and writers bring readers the science, and the magic, of archaeological discovery.
NEW BEGINNINGS
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
FROM OUR READERS
THE AMERICAN CANINE FAMILY TREE
OFF THE GRID • THINGVELLIR NATIONAL PARK, ICELAND
MARS EXPLORED
AZTEC FISHING
IRON AGE TEENAGERS
HAND OF GOD
BEAUTY ENDURES
LET THEM EAT SOUP
ANOTHER FORM OF SLAVERY
EAT MORE SPORE
WELL, WELL
NOMADIC NECROPOLIS
CONAN’S STORM CELLAR
WORLD ROUNDUP
Reimagining the Crusades • A detailed picture of more than two centuries of European Christian life in the Holy Land is emerging from new excavations at monasteries, towns, cemeteries, and some of the world’s most enduring castles
THE FRANKISH SETTLEMENTS
AN UNEXPECTED CEMETERY
People of the White Tiger • In southwestern China, a man’s richly furnished grave reveals how identity can persist even in a time of great change
AT THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD • The remains of a 400-year-old ship off Bermuda are refining the history of the island’s earliest inhabitants
THE MARKS OF TIME • A six-week heat wave in the U.K. and Ireland exposes nearly 5,000 years of history
All Roads, Eventually, Lead to Rome • Discoveries at the ancient town of Satricum on the Italian peninsula bear witness to one of the earliest expressions of what would become the Roman Empire
INSIDE A NATIVE STRONGHOLD • A rugged volcanic landscape was once the site of a dramatic standoff between the Modoc tribe and the U.S. Army
2018 THE YEAR OF TROY
DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE ▪ EDUCATE ▪ ADVOCATE
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