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

博雅论坛 - Powered by Discuz! Board 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 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 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 Germany announced startling news about the Neanderthal genome that might send you scrambling to submit your own DNA for [url=canada.html] [url=peru.html] HMS Investigator Early Pyramids Banks Island, Canada [/url] Jaen, Peru[/url] [url=t 作者: 尧曰 时间: 2011-1-12 00:17 标题: 2010年美国《考古》杂志评出十大考古发现 [url=guatemala.html] Royal Tomb El Zotz, Guatemala[/url] [url=ethiopia.html] \"Kadanuumuu\" Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia[/url] 标题: 2010年美国《考古》杂志评出十大考古发现 [打印本页] http://www.archaeology.org/1101/topten/ Top 10 Discoveries of 2010 Volume 64 Number 1, January/February 2011 \"undiscovery\") in the following pages. Canadian Arctic located the ill-fated HMS Investigator, abandoned in 1853. sequencing. [url=crete.html] [url=turkey.html] Paleolithic Tools The Tomb of Hecatomnus Plakias, Crete[/url] Milas, Turkey[/url] [url=germany.html] [url=tunisia.html] Decoding the Neanderthal Child Burials Genome Carthage, Tunisia[/url] Leipzig, Germany[/url] The Tomb of Hecatomnus - Milas, Turkey by Matthew Brunwasser

博雅论坛 - Powered by Discuz! Board (AP Photo/Durmus Genc, Anatolian) Turkish authorities have arrested looters who are suspected of tunneling their way into one of antiquity's most intriguing tombs. The looters reached the underground chamber, which lies below a temple to Zeus near the town of Milas, by digging in from a nearby house and an adjacent barn. Scholars believe the tomb belonged to Hecatomnus, the fourth-century B.C. ruler of Caria, a kingdom in what is now southwestern Turkey. Hecatomnus was the father of Mausolus, who was buried in the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. (The architectural term mausoleum is derived from the Carian ruler's name.) 2