2010 U.S. Archaeology magazine's Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries

Quincy Duivestein

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Decades from now people may remember 2010 for the BP oil spill, the Tea Party, and the iPad. But for our money, it's a lock people will still be excited about the year's most remarkable archaeological discoveries, which we explore (along with one
"undiscovery") in the following pages.
This was the year we learned that looters led archaeologists to spectacular and unparalleled royal tombs in both Turkey and Guatemala. An unexpected find brought us closer to Pocahontas, and an underwater archaeological survey in the high
Canadian Arctic located the ill-fated HMS Investigator, abandoned in 1853.
Archaeologists weren't just busy in the field, though. A number of breakthroughs happened in the lab, too. A new radiocarbon dating technique was perfected this year that will allow scientists to date artifacts without harming them.
Laboratory analysis of the bones of a close relative of Lucy revealed how early hominins walked. And anthropologists in Germanyannounced startling news about the Neand

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2010 U.S. Archaeology magazine's Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries