Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2013 (gnv64)

Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2013
English | PDF | 72 pages | 48.4 mb

FEATURES
26 Everlasting City
A new picture emerges of how a settlement of a few reed huts evolved into the city-state that helped set in motion the urban revolution BY ANDREW LAWLER
33 Wolf Rites of Winter
Archaeologists digging a Bronze Age site on the Russian steppes are using evidence from language and mythology to understand a remarkable discovery BY ERIC A. POWELL
37 An Extreme Life
The Kuril Islands, a remote and inhospitable archipelago stretching between Japan and Russia, are providing researchers with insights into the nature of what humans can endure—and what they cannot BY VICTORIA SCHLESINGER
42 Battlefi eld: 1814
In farmland on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, archaeologists have tracked troop movements of an American victory over the British BY KATHERINE SHARPE
46 Tomb of the Vulture Lord
A king’s burial reveals a pivotal moment in Maya history BY ROGER ATWOOD

DEPARTMENTS
4 Editor’s Letter
6 From the President
8 Letters
Where Vikings buried their dead, the value of salt, and facial reconstruction at Jamestown
9 From the Trenches
How humans’ throwing ability gave us a competitive edge, moles dig a Roman fort, an unlooted Wari imperial tomb, and French wine’s Italian roots
24 World Roundup
An Ohio brewery tries its hand at Sumerian beer, English archaeologists expose one of the world’s oldest railway tunnels, sediments from Lake Malawi contradict a past “volcanic winter,” and the oldest evidence of humans consistently eating meat
52 Letter from Norway
The race to fi nd, and save, ancient artifacts emerging from glaciers and ice patches in a warming world
68 Artifact
A tablet bearing a birthday party invite includes the earliest Latin script penned by a woman

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