Top 10 Archaeology Finds

[lunarwolfik]

National Geographic's Top Ten Archaeology Finds of 2010.

Hightlights include: Secret Pharaoh Tunnels, Decrepit Titantic, and Moche Temple's of Doom of AWESOME, oh my!

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[berangere]

I'm glad to see this comm is alive !
That's an interesting link, I wasn't aware of most of those facts. Diving everyday in my own little archaeological world, I think I miss a lot of the things that happen outside of my sphere of studies...

As far as I'm concerned, I'd say this year greatest discovery in Japanese archaeology may be the Odake cemetery.
http://berangere.dreamwidth.org/15005.html (in French, I would have post a link for a report in English, but I haven't found anything).
It represents a corpus of 71 bodies and bodies are rarely preserved in Japan's acidic soil. There are also dogs graves and a lot of wooden artifacts, including a dugout canoe.

Another important discovery was the one of a Proto-Jomon (first stage of the japanese ... peri-neolithic civilisation) site in the prefecture of Shiga, because those old sites are rare outside of the island of Kyushu.
http://berangere.dreamwidth.org/8745.html (in French)
http://atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php?topic=25135.0;wap2 (in English but only about the clay figurine discovered on the site).

And I think I would give the "site of the year award" to Gossakaito (a metal production site) because of their incredible communication campain : in the peak of summer, there was at least on article a week about their discoveries and experimentations, and often several articles a week !
http://berangere.dreamwidth.org/tag/site:+kaito

So, does anybody have special awards to give in his/her special field of study ? National Geographic is good, but "what is popular among the readers" does not always corresponds to "what really was great this year in the archaeological field".