Archaeology Magazine — March-April 2018

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40 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 T he front yard of a Korean home was traditionally left empty, while the backyard, which somet ...

archaeology.org 41 E vidence continues to reveal much about the quality of life of the residents of ancient Pompeii. The city cr ...

A nthropologists once believed that tool- making was humanity’s defining character- istic, elevating us above other animals. But ...

archaeology.org 43 you can take a quantum leap back in time into the mind of a person,” Woods says. “It’s problem-solving, fossi ...

44 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 put them in a PET scanner, which measures the accumula- tion of glucose, the body’s basic fuel ...

archaeology.org 45 thinking. “There’s no way.” To his surprise, both groups managed to craft rudimentary hand axes. Once they ha ...

I n a marshy clearing on the island of Trinidad, Pitch Lake could be mistaken for a derelict parking lot. But this vaguely indus ...

archaeology.org 47 number considering that only seven other ancient wooden objects have been recovered in the entire Lesser Anti ...

48 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 with caimans, butterflies, and parakeets. “It would have been quite different from what you se ...

archaeology.org 49 are primarily fiber-based technologies.” She says the find- ing at Pitch Lake, bolstered by other recent disc ...

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archaeology.org 51 A t first glance, the historic county of Yorkshire in northern England seems as English as can be. It gives i ...

52 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 it was unclear whether the camp extended beyond this fortified area, some experts took these f ...

archaeology.org 53 But, according to Richards, “The more interesting possibility is that they were already thinking about seizin ...

54 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle offers no insights into the nature of the battle for Repton, but evi ...

archaeology.org 55 extended beyond the heavily fortified enclosure. Excavations near the charnel mound have turned up Viking wea ...

Do you get discouraged when you hear your telephone ring? Do you avoid using your phone because hearing difficulties make it har ...

archaeology.org 57 A red sandstone block props open the door to Gyula Kereszturi’s wine cellar in a small village in southern Hu ...

58 ARCHAEOLOGY • March/April 2018 LETTER FROM HUNGARY whose location had eluded generations of scholars. The discovery of Turbek ...