Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2012 - 6

EDITOR’S LETTER

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Editor in Chief

Claudia Valentino
Executive Editor Deputy Editor

Jarrett A. Lobell

Samir S. Patel

Senior Editors

Nikhil Swaminathan Zach Zorich

ethods for conserving artifacts long submerged in salt water have come a fair distance since the 1960s when the Civil War blockade runner Modern Greece was discovered oﬀ the North Carolina coast. At that time, a staggering quantity of artifacts was retrieved from the wreck and hurried into wet storage in people’s homes to keep the ﬁnds from deteriorating. Journalist Marion Blackburn, in “A Cargo Twice Dug” (page 39), tells the 50-year story of eﬀorts to save the contents of the wreck, beginning with makeshift preservation attempts in bathtubs and sinks to full-ﬂedged, proper conservation today. Shanghai-based journalist Lauren Hilgers reports on a site of a very diﬀerent nature in northern China’s Hebei Province. “The 3,000 Buddhas” (page 34) oﬀers a window—via the largest sculpture cache yet found—into the rise of Buddhism in China, its subsequent repression, and the political inﬁghting and warfare that plagued the independent city of Yecheng. The archaeological work at Gorée Island just oﬀ Dakar, Senegal, is uncovering the history of a location prominent in the slave trade from the ﬁfteenth through the ninet nineteenth centuries. Contributing editor Roger Atw Atwood journeyed to Gorée to bring us “Senegal’s Forg Forgotten Slaves” (page 47), which reveals that class co counted as much as race when it came to one’s p place in the island’s culture. Ned Kelly was, simultaneously, one of A Australia’s most celebrated and most reviled c criminals, a man who would as soon write an im impromptu manifesto as stage an armed robbery. D Deputy editor Samir S. Patel, in “Final Resting Pl Place of an Outlaw” (page 28), tells us the story of arch archaeologists’ byzantine search for Kelly’s remains more t than a century after his capture and hanging. Freela Freelance correspondent Nikos Roupas, in “The Unknown Temple” (page 44), outlines archaeologist Xeni Arapogian Arapogianni’s work on a temple built by the Spartans, likely in th sixth or ﬁfth century B.C., possibly dedicated the to a Greek god of war—but which one? In “Burial Customs” (page 24), by correspondent Matthew Brunwasser, we are oﬀered a look at a Roman necropolis containing at least 5,000 graves and revealing many diﬀerent burial styles. In sharp contrast, just at its edge, there is another sort of entombment, possibly tied to military executions, which raises new questions about instability in the third- and fourth-century eastern Roman Empire. “From the Trenches” brings word that Neanderthals might have been artists, in “Letter from Iceland” (page 53), senior editor Zach Zorich examines evidence of the ways in which Icelanders adapted to the Little Ice Age, and, of course, because Halloween is coming soon, we have a little something about vampires.

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