MAY/JUNE 2018 * VOLUME 71, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS YEARS 1948-2018 54 Rice terraces, Ifugao Province, Philippines FEATURES 26 CULTIVATING AN ARID LANDSCAPE Excavations in a Byzantine village in Israel are raising questions about how and why desert agriculture thrived-and then disappeared BY SARA TOTH STUB 32 GLOBAL CARGO Found in the waters off a small Dutch island, a seventeenth-century shipwreck provides an unparalleled view of the golden age of European trade BY TRACY E. ROBEY 38 A SANCTUARY'S FINAL FAREWELL Excavations at Casas del Turuñuelo tell a tale of ritual destruction in the mythical land of Tartessos 42 DESERT ORCA A geoglyph recently discovered in southern Peru may date to the beginning of the renowned Nazca Lines tradition BY DANIEL WEISS 44 EXPLORING A PREHISTORIC BORDERLAND Hunter-gatherers in northern Europe withstood the spread of agriculture for 1,500 years BY ERIC A. POWELL 48 EMBLEMS FOR THE AFTERLIFE Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos BY MARLEY BROWN BY JASON URBANUS archaeology.org COVER: The recently excavated bones of dozens of animals sacrificed by the people of the mysterious Tartessos culture PHOTO: BUILDING TARTESSOS PROJECThttp://www.archaeology.org