The most recent issue of Archaeology (Jan./Feb. 2009) runs the usual gamut of features and news items on the archaeology of Africa, the Pacific and the New World. Coverage in the online version ranges from full-text to abstracts, noted below.
Top 10 Discoveries of 2008 (extended online version)
Includes "Sacred Maya Blue" (Chichén Itzá, Mexico), "Wari Masked Mummy" (Lima, Peru), and "American Genes" (North America).
Extreme Makeover: How Painted Bodies, Flattened Foreheads, and Filed Teeth Made the Maya Beautiful, by Mary Miller (abstract)
Archaeology's daily online Archaeological Headlines feature for this week includes links to stories on the Wari site of Cerro Patapo; and layoffs of research staff at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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