Archaeology Magazine — March-April 2018

N atural disasters were a constant threat for people liv- ing in the ancient city of Liangzhu in China’s Yangtze Delta. The annu ...

20 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 A lthough the treasure of the Egyptian pharaoh Tut- ankhamun’s grave, one of the most famous a ...

NEWTONIAN WHITEBOARD U sing a photographic technique to survey interior surfaces of Sir Isaac Newton’s childhood home, Woolsthor ...

NOMADIC CHIC FROM THE TRENCHES 22 ARCHAEOLOGY • January/February 2018 O n the bank of a river in Siberia’s Tuva region, archaeol ...

archaeology.org 23 OLD WOMAN AND THE SEA I n a rock shelter on Indonesia’s Alor Island, just north of Timor, archaeologists have ...

24 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 WORLD ROUNDUP BY JASON URBANUS PERU: As the Incas expanded their empire, they forcibly removed ...

archaeology.org 25 GREECE: Underwater archaeologists have gained new insight into the con- struction and configuration of ancien ...

Peru’s Casma state endured unpredictable El Niños and centuries of drought by Lizzie Wade HOW TO SURVIVE ...

CLIMATE CHANGE The ruins of the city of El Purgatorio spread across two square miles of northern Peru’s Casma Valley. From a.d. ...

28 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 middle- and lower-class neighborhoods. And most of it was still standing, preserved by the des ...

archaeology.org 29 Rivers snaking down from the mountains provided the Moche with just enough water for farming, and people clus ...

30 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 rather in a constellation of cities and towns linked by a shared religion and the culture that ...

archaeology.org 31 feasts, which they likely attended along with upper-class people. “Yes, there are definitely going to be have ...

Fresco, House of Livia, Prima Porta, 1st century b.c. ...

The Archaeology of Gardens ...

34 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 eople have created gardens across the world and through- out time, and these spaces have been ...

archaeology.org 35 B eginning in the second century b.c., Rome’s most prominent families began to build luxurious country estate ...

36 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 T he Maya village of Cerén was home to some 200 people when it was buried by a massive volcani ...

archaeology.org 37 T he Tale of Sinuhe, a work of ancient Egyptian lit- erature dating to the 12th Dynasty, around 1900 b.c., re ...

38 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 T he South Agora of Aphrodisias, located in southwestern Turkey, was one of two public squares ...