Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2013
English | PDF | 72 pages | 51.7 mb
FEATURES
26 Life on the Inside - Open for only six weeks toward the end of the Civil War, Camp Lawton preserves a record of wartime prison life BY MARGARET SHAKESPEARE
34 Seen and Unseen - How an ancient artifact is changing the way we practice science BY JARRETT A. LOBELL
38 Bronze Age Boat Mystery - A puzzling find in eastern England BY ROGER ATWOOD
41 Ancient Tattoos - As adornment, status symbol, or declaration of religious belief, body art has been a meaningful form of expression throughout the ages and across the world
BY JARRETT A. LOBELL AND ERIC A. POWELL
47 Vengeance on the Vikings - Mass burials in England attest to a turbulent time, and perhaps a notorious medieval massacre BY NADIA DURRANI
DEPARTMENTS
4 Editor’s Letter
6 From the President
8 Letters - How war was declared in 1812, archaeologists take a multidisciplinary approach to studying dog and wolf bones, and could cows at Uruk stand on their hind legs?
9 From the Trenches - An underground Roman estate, Neanderthals weren’t one-trick tool-makers, a 1,500-year-old Maya stela, and how archaeologists are using drones
24 World Roundup - Prince Albert in a can, a Bulgarian poison ring, fi rst funeral fl owers, and shipwrecks in Antarctica
53 Letter from Bangladesh - A father and son watched over a site in northeastern Bangladesh for decades before archaeologists came to see what was there
68 Artifact - A ceremonial feathered shield secreted inside an ancient Peruvian temple
