Mesoamerica:
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Teosinte likely ancestor of maize; genetic studies show closer links
(AR 1,3)
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Guilá Naquitz squash (cucurbits) are oldest plant domesticates
in Mesoamerica (AR 1,3)
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Early maize levels in terraced village complex in northern Mexico
(AR 1,4)
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Early ballcourts in southern Mexico: signs of complex society
(AR 2,1)
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Cacao in Mayan Preclassic (AR 3,3)
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Cancuen, a new Maya city (AR 2,4)
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Mayan King in La Milpa, Belize burial, AD 450
(AR 1,2)
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200 yr drought from 800-1000 AD in Maya lowlands linked
to more images of rain god Chac (AR 1,1)
Central America
Caribbean Antilles:
South America:
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Earliest Paleoindians may have lived in the Amazon rainforest; Caverna
da Pedra Pintada in Brazil (AR 1,2)
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Terminal Pleistocene Marine Adaptations on the Peruvian Coast at Quebrada
Tacahuay and Quebrada Jaguay (AR 2,2)
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Chile's ancient mummies yield information on infectious
Native American diseases (AR 1,4)
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City of Inca Mummies
near Lima (AR 3,2)
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Giant fish weirs identified in Bolivia
(AR 3,1)
North
America:
Southwest
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Tucson Nomads quickly settle down- new data on Southwest irrigation
(AR 1,4)
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A camp for Coronado identified at the Owens site near Lubbock, Texas
(AR 1,2)
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Cannibalism at Cowboy Wash (AR 2,4)
North America: Southeast
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Updating James Fort, America's first successful colony at Jamestown
(AR 3,3)
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Jamestown droughts: tree rings give causes of colony’s hardship
(AR 2,1)
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Shipwreck of early Spanish colony found at Emmanuel Point, Pensacola
Bay, Florida (AR 1,1)
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Spanish Shipwreck in the Tortugas recovered by robot archaeologist
(AR 1,3)
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Key Marco Cat, a Calusa carving on display (AR
1,1)
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Near East
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Discovery of "Jesus" inscription on ancient Jerusalem burial box
(AR 3,3)
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Identification of the Initial Site of Einkorn Wheat Cultivation
(AR 2,1)
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Ancient Egyptian Settlement at Halif, 3000 BC (AR
1,3)
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Resurfacing of a biblical -era fishing boat, 50 BC
(AR 1,1)
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Early Vintage: 1st evidence of wine, in Iran’s Zagros mountains
(AR 1,1)
Turkey and Asia Minor:
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Catal Hoyuk gains new Neolithic context
(AR 2,3)
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In pursuit of Priam’s treasure; German-Russian rivalry over gold
from Troy (AR 1,1; 1,2)
Central
Asia:
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A new Khazarian fortress (AR 2,4)
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Buddhist monuments destroyed by Taliban in Afhanistan
(AR 3,1)
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Rebuilding the Buddhas of Bamiyan (AR 3,2)
Far
East:
Cambodia:
China:
Japan
Siberia
Scandanavia and Vikings
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Final Demise Of Norse Greenland: lack of fish remains baffles
investigators (AR 1,3)
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The Vinland Map, Revindicated? (AR 3,3)
Eastern Europe
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Egypt and the Nile
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Cleopatra’s Quarter found submerged on Antirrhodos Island in
Alexandria (AR 1,3)
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Frankincense at a fortified Nubian town; new evidence of ancient commodity
(AR 2,1)
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Beer and bread at the worker's village at Amarna, Egypt, 1350 BC
(AR 1,2)
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Napoleon's Lost Fleet
found in Harbor near Alexandria
(AR 2,2)
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Early Egyptian alphabet
(AR 2,3)
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Valley of the Golden Mummies (AR 2,4)
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Cosmetics of ancient Egypt (AR 3,2)
Italy and Ancient Rome
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Nola and Poggiomarino: newly discovered Campanian sites
(AR 3,3)
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Marzabotto: Industry in an Etruscan town
(AR 3,3)
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New technology for deciphering Herculaneum papyrus texts
(AR 3,1)
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Earliest DNA evidence for malaria found in 5c AD Rome
(AR 3,1)
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Newly found Etruscan writing, the Cortona Tablet
(AR 2,3)
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Ice cores show atmospheric pollution in ancient Rome and China
(AR 1,2)
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Mystery city in mural
from Nero's Golden House, Domus Aurea
(AR 2,1).
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Well-preserved Roman Ships at Pisa (AR 2,2)
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Venice: Revealing patterns of the rising waters
(AR 2,4)
France and Roman Gaul
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Gallic Burials at Gondole, France
(AR 3,3)
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Dentistry in Roman Gaul: iron constitution needed for 1st century
false tooth implant (AR 1,4)
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Trials and Trepanations: early cranial surgery in Mesolithic France
(AR 1,4)
UK and RomanBritain
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Drumanagh: a possible Roman fort in Ireland, AD 79-138
(AR 1,1; 1,2)
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Stonehenge revisited (AR 3,1)
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London's Leading
Lady (AR 2,3)
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