Current World Archaeology 100

'- The ‘Lion Man’: god or toy?
- Celebrating our human story: ten sites and 300,000 years
- Royal mystery: who was buried inside the Vergina tombs?
- Beating Bonaparte: taking lives and saving lives at Waterloo
- Turkey: how the Roman town of Zeugma was saved

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Current World Archaeology 100

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Highlights:

  • The ‘Lion Man’: god or toy?
  • Celebrating our human story: ten sites and 300,000 years
  • Royal mystery: who was buried inside the Vergina tombs?
  • Beating Bonaparte: taking lives and saving lives at Waterloo
  • Turkey: how the Roman town of Zeugma was saved
Cover Date: Apr / May 2020 | Volume 9 Issue Volume 9 Issue 4

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Left The skulls of fallen warriors. inset One of the weapons discovered, a Germanic style axe with a preserved handle made from ash wood.The bare bones: ritual violence in Denmark’s Holy Valley

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Above Some of the small gold boats from Bronze Age Nors, which represent the ship that carried the sun through the darkness of the underworld at night. below There are a large number of amber artefacts on display at the museum, including Mesolithic and Neolithic pendants and figurines, like this bear.National Museum of DenmarkThe National Museum of Denmark has one of the oldest established collections of prehistoric artefacts in the world. It dates back to King Frederik VI,…
Right The Viking round fortress at Trelleborg, in western Zealand, was excavated in the 1930s when it was threatened with redevelopment as a motor racing circuit. Today, it is one of Europe’s iconic archaeological monuments. What lessons do Denmark’s approaches to site presentation hold for Tuscany?Denmark’s Viking fortresses: a Tuscan challengeRichard Hodges explores the Viking fortresses at Trelleborg and Borgring.