Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2013 - 4

EDITOR’S LETTER

In Plain Site

Editor in Chief

Claudia Valentino
Executive Editor

Deputy Editor

Jarrett A. Lobell

Samir S. Patel

Senior Editors

Nikhil Swaminathan
Zach Zorich
Online Editor

he editors of ARCHAEOLOGY are proud to announce the launch of our newly
redesigned website, Archaeology.org. We invite you to join the hundreds of
thousands of people who visit the site each month. It oﬀers a visually exciting
platform for the kinds of stories that our readers have come to expect. In addition,
our daily Archaeological Headlines continue to keep everyone up to date on exciting
discoveries between issues. We know you’ll enjoy it!
This issue of ARCHAEOLOGY shows that
evidence of conﬂict and war can be seen in the
archaeological record in myriad—and sometimes
surprising—ways. In “Munich Underground”
(page 24), contributing editor Andrew Curry
brings us a view of research that has gone on in
the Marienhof neighborhood at the center of the
city. Ironically, evidence dating from the twelfth
to the mid-twentieth century was preserved
for archaeological study by the destruction
visited upon it in WWII. Now, archaeological
excavation preceding the planned construction
of a new subway station is revealing much about
the Marienhof’s medieval past.
“Pirates of the Original Panama Canal” (page
30), by deputy editor Samir S. Patel, surveys
archaeology at the mouth of the Chagres River
on Panama’s Caribbean coast. There, in 1671, notorious privateer Henry Morgan began
his attack on Panama City, but lost several of the ships in his ﬂeet. Cannons have already
been found, and researchers hope to ﬁnd remains of the ships themselves.
“A Stunning Sacriﬁce” (page 44), another article by Andrew Curry, examines how and
why more than 400 extraordinary artifacts of a military nature—including swords, spears,
and chain mail—ended up at the bottom of a Roman-era bog. This surprising evidence
has been found in a equally surprising location—a muddy ﬁeld in northern Poland.
A diﬀerent view of conﬂict comes through in executive editor Jarrett A. Lobell’s
piece, “A Soldier’s Story” (page 49). The remains of one individual and the things he
carried at the Battle of Waterloo reveal the personal side of war. Although we may not
yet know his name, he is not entirely lost to history.
And ﬁnally, journalist Brendan Borrell traveled to the Thai-Cambodian border to
examine the armed conﬂict and controversy over a 1,100-year-old Khmer temple. His
story, “The Battle Over Preah Vihear” (page 60), demonstrates archaeology’s relevance
both in uncovering evidence of an ancient culture and in preserving it.

Eric A. Powell
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Contributing Editors

Roger Atwood, Paul Bahn, Bob Brier,
Andrew Curry, Blake Edgar, Brian Fagan,
David Freidel, Tom Gidwitz, Andrew Lawler,
Stephen H. Lekson, Jerald T. Milanich,
Jennifer Pinkowski, Heather Pringle,
Angela M. H. Schuster, Neil Asher Silberman,
Julian Smith
Correspondents

Athens: Yannis N. Stavrakakis
Bangkok: Karen Coates
Islamabad: Massoud Ansari
Israel: Mati Milstein
Naples: Marco Merola
Paris: Bernadette Arnaud
Rome: Roberto Bartoloni,
Giovanni Lattanzi
Washington, D.C.: Sandra Scham
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