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Features
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(Cover Photo: Jorge Perez de Lara)
Top 10 Discoveries of 2008
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ARCHAEOLOGY recaps the year's most intriguing stories
Witness to Genocide
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Forensic archaeologists uncover evidence of a secret massacre—and help convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity
by Heather Pringle
Extreme Makeover
How painted bodies, flattened foreheads, and filed teeth made the Maya beautiful
by Mary Miller
Swept Away
Rediscovering the ruins of a medieval British city beneath the North Sea
by Samir S. Patel
Utopia Derailed
How the 1894 Pullman strike ended one magnate's vision of a working-class paradise
by Arthur Melville Pearson
Family Secrets
An Italian CSI unit helps investigate ancient remains found in a third-century A.D. tomb
by Marco Merola
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Departments
In This Issue
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
by Peter A. Young
From the President
War and Culture
Senate acts to safeguard past during conflicts
by C. Brian Rose
Letters
Married to a gladiator, soda vs. beer, eagles and snakes, and not-so-sinister witches
From the Trenches
Lusitania's secret, Neanderthal babies, Egyptian judgment, hallucinating history, Britain's oldest toy, Civilization Revolution, Jack London's ranch, African spirits, armadillo tunnels, earliest tuberculosis, Lenape prophecy, and giant clams
Conversation Full text!
Celine Rainville talks about how to coach a college atlatl-team, and why undergrads love the ancient spear-throwing tool
Insider
Reassessing the Chaco Meridian, one of the most controversial theories about the ancient Southwest
Letter from Macedonia: Owning Alexander
A modern nation makes a contentious claim on the legacy of Alexander the Great
by Matthew Brunwasser
Artifact
A portable perpetual calendar from a fort in Roman Britain
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