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	Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2008
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	Top 10 Discoveries of 2008
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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.archaeology.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/maya_blue.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/maya_blue_sm.gif" id="id1782059812891985" /><BR /><BR /><B>Sacred Maya Blue<BR />Chichén Itzá, Mexico</B></A></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.archaeology.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/masked_mummy.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/masked_mummy_sm.gif" id="id2509363852552432" /><BR /><BR /><B>Wari Masked Mummy<BR />Lima, Peru</B></A></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/kuttamuwas_soul.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/kuttamuwas_soul1_sm.gif" id="id18464082561078066" /><BR /><BR /><B>Kuttamuwa's Soul<BR />Zincirli, Turkey</B></A></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/kuttamuwas_soul.html" href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/kuttamuwas_soul.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.archaeology.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/kuttamuwas_soul.html">"It's the first inscription to make really clear what these people understood about the afterlife in terms of the soul,</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.archaeology.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/american_genes.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/coprolites_sm.gif" id="id16992764092898138" /><BR /><BR /><B>American Genes<BR />North America</B></A></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/oldest_oil_paintings.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/oldest_oil_paintings_sm.gif" id="id8436066524801253" /><BR /><BR /><B>Oldest Oil Paintings<BR />Bamiyan, Afghanistan</B></A></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><TR><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/first_european.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/first_european_sm.gif" id="id5927024382489187" /><BR /><BR /><B>First European<BR />Atapuerca, Spain</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/earliest_shoes.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/earliest_shoes1_sm.gif" id="id037839463692029285" /><BR /><BR /><B>Earliest Shoes<BR />Tianyuan Cave, China</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/portuguese_indiaman.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/portuguese_indiaman_sm.gif" id="id7933401511328441" /><BR /><BR /><B>Portuguese Indiaman<BR />Namibia</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/imperial_colossi.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/imperial_colossi1_sm.gif" id="id6155181534921027" /><BR /><BR /><B>Imperial Colossi<BR />Sagalassos, Turkey</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/origins_of_whaling.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/origins_of_whaling_sm.gif" id="id45780710767130106" /><BR /><BR /><B>Origins of Whaling<BR />Chukotka Peninsula, Russia </B></A></TD></TR></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/imperial_colossi.html" href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/imperial_colossi.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.archaeology.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/imperial_colossi.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><TR><TD><IMG class="PopBoxImageSmall" pbcaption="Courtesy Marc Waelkens" pbsrc="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/jpegs/imperial_colossi1.jpg" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/imperial_colossi1.gif" alt="[image]" id="id6964659941917343" />
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</TD></TR></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.archaeology.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/">here is a selection of other important stories we considered for inclusion on the list, but for one reason or another did not.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><TABLE cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/iceage_figurines.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/iceage_figurines_sm.gif" id="id4961119524009512" /><BR /><BR /><B>Ice Age Figurines
	<BR />Zaraysk, Russia</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/bamiyan_buddhas.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/bamiyan_buddhas_sm.gif" id="id15618934560590303" /><BR /><BR /><B>Reclining Buddhas
	<BR />Bamiyan, Afghanistan</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/mammoth_dna.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/mammoth_dna_sm.gif" id="id9812821095226355" /><BR /><BR /><B>Mammoths: Hitting<BR />a Genetic Wall?</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/global_warming.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/global_warming_sm.gif" id="id0032210080376509076" /><BR /><BR /><B><DIV>Our Melting Heritage</DIV><BR /></B></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/"><TABLE cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/tuberculosis.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/tuberculosis_sm.gif" id="id34187833250309196" /><BR /><BR /><B>Human TB—<BR />Tracking a Disease</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/roman_bust.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/roman_bust_sm.gif" id="id32975229138656326" /><BR /><BR /><B>Can You Help<BR />Identify this Roman?</B></A></TD><TD valign="bottom" align="center" class="text"><A href="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/rock_art.html" class="black"><IMG border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/thumbnails/rock_art_sm.gif" id="id5285479402767868" /><BR /><BR /><B>History Writ (and<BR />Painted) Large</B></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ADF039FA-099A-4D34-9B22-B1F3B098CF2C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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