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24 Rebuilding Beirut
As the modern city rises, evidence
of its complex history and changing
fortunes is being uncovered
BY ANDREW LAWLER
30 Digging Into
Technologys Past
Digital archaeologists excavate
the microprocessor that ushered in
the home computing revolution
BY NIKHIL SWAMINATHAN
34 The Nok of Nigeria

Unlocking the secrets of West
Africas earliest known civilization
BY ROGER ATWOOD
39 Assisis Roman Villa

A surprise discovery under a
medieval Italian town square
BY MARCO MEROLA
44 Australias
Shackled Pioneers
A fresh look at the convict era
when tens of thousands of exiled
criminals helped lay the foundation
of a modern nation
BY SAMIR S. PATEL
Cover: A woman welcomes the

deceased to the next world in
this fresco from an extremely
well-preserved Song Dynasty tomb.
Photo: Zhao Peng/Xinhua/Landov
39 Under the medieval town hall

in Assisi, Italy, archaeologists
have uncovered the remains
of an impressive ancient
Roman villa.
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8 From the President
10 Letters
World War IIs lesser-known internment camps,
the shipwrecks of the Adriatic, and more
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11 From the Trenches

The destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan, an ancient
Peruvian temples acoustics, a forgotten town of
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20 Reviews
Recasting the Rapanui of Easter Island
and animals role in shaping humanity
22 World Roundup
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53 Letter from Pittsburgh

Nineteenth-century daily life nds a new home
in the twenty-rst century
68 Artifact
An early Irish Christian text survives
more than a thousand years in an Irish bog
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of the MOS Technology 6502, the microchip that
enabled home computing.
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Cityscapes and Dig Sites
Editor in Chief
Claudia Valentino
Executive Editor
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Nikhil Swaminathan
hen I studied archaeology as an undergraduate, one of the things that

impressed me was the underlying methodology that supports archaeological
discovery and analysis. Before anyone digs a site, a grid has to be carefully
established using surveying instruments. The find spot for each artifact can then be pinpointed, in three dimensions, as the dig proceeds. I automatically associated this meticulous protocol with the open-air sites that one finds in the more remote areas of the world.
But how does archaeology proceed in a dynamic area such as a modern city? In this issue,
we have reports from three placesBeirut, Assisi, and Pittsburghwhere the environment in which archaeological discovery is being carried out is constantly changing.
Contributing editor Andrew Lawler traveled to Lebanon this spring to bring us
Rebuilding Beirut (page 24). The urbane and iconic city, with neighborhoods razed
during civil strife in the 1990s, is indeed rebuilding, and archaeologists and developers
are teaming up so that evidence of its
millennia-long history can be preserved as construction proceeds.
In Letter From Pittsburgh (page
53), freelance journalist Margaret
Shakespeare showcases an urban
archaeology success story. In the 1990s,
during a building boom in the former
steel town, construction workers at
one site stopped work and immediately called archaeologists when they
uncovered 10 wells. As a result of this
discovery and many others, vast troves
Construction equipment shares the skyline with the of artifacts have been retrieved, telling
Mohammad al-Amin Mosque in downtown Beirut.
much about the day-in, day-out lives of
the citys nineteenth-century residents.
And, beneath a bustling medieval town square in Italy, older sections of a city slumbered until they were discovered by accident. Such is the case with Assisis Roman Villa
(page 39) by freelance writer Marco Merola. He surveys the finds in a stunning photo
essay featuring some of the finest frescoes of the ancient Roman period.
The archaeological record of a city can tell us much about its current-day identity, and
the same holds true for nations. Deputy editor Samir S. Patel journeyed to Australia to
cover the work of historical archaeologists in Sydney (yet another urban archaeology
site), Perth, and Tasmania. In Australias Shackled Pioneers (page 44), we get a comprehensive view of the true nature of incarceration in Australiaand how, without these
exiled eighteenth- and nineteenth-century criminals, the nation as we know it might
never have come into being.
Theres much more in the issue, including Roger Atwoods report from Nigeria on
one of ancient West Africas most sophisticated civilizations. And senior editor Nikhil
Swaminathan reveals how a computer chip became an archaeological site.
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his past March saw two events, one sad, the other celebratory, that marked the
end of an era that had begun in 2003 with the war in Iraq and the subsequent
looting of the National Museum in Baghdad. I am saddened to write of the death
of Donny George, at the age of 60, on March 11. George was director of research for
Iraqs State Board of Antiquities and Heritage at the time of the invasion. In the chaos
of war he tried valiantly to protect the priceless holdings of the museum from looters.
Despite his efforts, thousands of archaeological objects, made by the extraordinary
ancient cultures that had occupied Iraq over countless millennia, disappeared. The story,
however, didnt end there. And this is what we must celebrate. Ultimately, nearly half of
the looted treasures were returned.
In the wars aftermath George oversaw a
rebuilding of the museum, launched a conservation program, and improved security
for Iraqs many archaeological sites. George
left Iraq in 2006 and made a new life with
his family in the U.S. It is thanks to his
vision and energy that archaeology has a
future in Iraq.
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friendship in Georges life, as we remember
him. In the week before his death, George
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was able to be present for the military
retirement of the U.S. soldier who partnered with him in the recovery of Baghdads looted museum objects, Colonel Matthew
Bogdanos. A highly decorated Marine, Bogdanos served multiple tours of duty in Iraq
and Afghanistan. In addition to helping George secure thousands of museum artifacts
after the war, he also headed the U.S. investigation into the looting. As with George, this
work was but one aspect of a career rich in its contributions to cultural preservation. His
2005 book, Thieves of Baghdad, makes a persuasive case for the link between tracking
in antiquities and terrorist nancing and thus has implications that transcend Iraq.
In one sense, the death of George and retirement of Bogdanos close an historical
episode that transformed the terms of debate about looting and cultural heritage. When
Egypt descended into civil war this past January, the AIA and countless cultural heritage groups around the world immediately expressed public concern for the countrys
archaeological patrimony, condemned the looting, and advocated both for protections in
Egypt and for scrutiny of imports of potentially looted material into other countries.
War and civil unrest will long be with us, but the lessons of Iraq will reduce the loss
of cultural patrimony. Two brave and principled men, Donny George and Matthew
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LETTERS
Here we publish several of the many
letters we received in response to
the World War II section in our
last issue. Personal and evocative
accounts continue to supply an everbroadening understanding of that last
great conict.
Your magazine brings back fond
memories of my rst and, sadly, only
dig at Tel Ashdod in Israel in 1963.
In your last issue, I was especially
taken with World War II: Battles,
Tactics, Home Front (May/June).
You mentioned it briey, and I would
like to emphasize that the excavation
of the killing elds of the war, especially ones containing the remains
of Jews in Eastern Europe, has been
taboo for many years, but this may
be changing. As a child of survivors
and as a rabbi, I see no reason not to
dig respectfully into these gravesto
nd out not only how the victims
lived and died, but who they actually
were! I lost my two sisters and 25
family members at a killing eld near
the Polish border in Kovel, Ukraine.
While we have a communal tombstone, it would be nice to have some
proof that they were actually buried
there. Such excavations have been
done in Bosnia and Kosovo. I cant
see any reason why we cant do it in
the Ukraine.
Jack Nusan Porter
Newtonville, MA
cases, waiters were arrested between

taking a diners order and serving
itreplaced with another waiter so
smoothly that diners didnt notice. I
know this because my grandfather
was a German immigrant, journalist,
and actor living on the West Coast.
Without warning, the FBI knocked
on his door and arrested him. They
searched the house and conscated
cameras, radios, and theater-prop
weaponry. Grandpa never spoke of
his time in North Dakota behind a
fence. As a child, I found his journal
and showed it to my father. We dont
talk about that, he said. It is a part of
the hidden history of our nation.
Debbie Butler
Vashon, WA
Your article on physical remains from

WWII reminded me of a large hill of
vehicles and other items across the
Mackenzie River from Norman Wells,
Northern Territory, Canada. During
the war, the Canol Road was built to
ensure access to oil in case the coast
was invaded. At wars end, most of the
equipment was put into a really big
pile and covered with dirt, rather than
being shipped elsewhere. As far as I
know, it has not been excavated. You
can still walk the rugged Canol Trail
from Norman Wells to the Yukon.
Susan Weikel Morrison
Fresno, CA
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I read with interest the article about

the internment camps where Japanese and Japanese-American citizens
were held during WWII. Much lesser known is that Germans and Italians also were rounded up and sent
to spend the war in camps, shortly
after the Japanese removal. In some
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Fascinating read on how the Albanian coast is giving up its secrets,

from WWII ghters to Roman trade
vessels (The Adriatics Uncharted
Past, March/April). Lakes, rivers,
and oceans are museums waiting
for archaeologists. I am amazed that
deep in the waters of Lake Tahoe,
near my hometown, they have found
WWII planes that had been training
over the lake. They also nd tons of
gambling chipsat one time casinos
discarded them there when they were
no longer valid.
Paul Dale Roberts
Elk Grove, CA
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Back to Bamiyan, Ten Years Later
hen Chinese
pilgrim Hsuan
Tsang arrived
in Bamiyan in a.d. 632
he was awed by the sight
of two massive statues of
Buddha, rising 125 and 180
feet above the rugged valley
floor. The statues, situated
in niches carved out of the
soft sandstone mountain
face, were brightly painted
and decorated with gold
and jewels. They would
have been dazzling in the
intense sunlight of central
Afghanistan. Hsuan Tsang
was no less impressed by the
10 monasteries clustered in
the surrounding caves and
at the feet of the statues,
Before the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in March 2001, the larger of
housing more than a
the two statues once stood in the now-empty niche carved into the sandstone cliff face.
thousand Buddhist monks.
The monasteries
In the intervening years since these events,
eventually fell into ruin, a century or two after the
archaeologists and art historians have turned their
arrival of Islam in the eighth century a.d. A series of
eorts to studying the rubble left behind for new
conquerorsfrom the feared Mahmoud of Ghazni who
insights into how and when the statues were created.
forged a vast empire in the area in the eleventh century to
According to the Technical University of Munichs Erwin
Genghis Khan whose armies rampaged through Central
Emmerling, who led a team that examined the rubble,
Asiawreaked havoc on the remaining buildings and
the explosions expelled wooden pegs and timbers that
population. For another thousand years, Muslims,
provide importantand previously unknownclues to
oended by the images of Buddha, defaced the statues
the construction techniques used to create the Buddhas.
and the cave paintings that dot the honeycombed interior
Emmerling discovered that the pegs and timbers were
of the cli face. Weather ate away at the statues surfaces.
secured to the hewn rock with ropes to hold in place
Despite the abuse, in addition to normal wear and tear,
the layers of smooth clay resembling porcelain that
the Buddhas of Bamiyan still dominated the valley.
once covered the statues outer stone surface. Then by
Then, on March 2, 2001, the Taliban began to re
sculpting the clay, the artists created the lifelike folds in
artillery at the statues. The artillery probably did little
the Buddhas robes. Further analysis showed that the clay
damage, says Brendan Cassar, chief of cultural heritage
contained a mix of straw, animal hair, and quartz, which
at UNESCOs Kabul oce, of the rst Taliban attempts.
also served to stabilize and protect the structures, and
Only by detonating explosives placed up and down the
was likely one of the keys to their longevity.
statues did they succeed in dislodging the Buddhas from
The team also discovered that the Buddhas had been,
their niches. By the end of that month, the 1,500-yearas Hsuan Tsang reported, brightly painted. They found
old statues were no more.
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several layers of paint on the rubble
fragments, a sign that the statues
were repainted more than once
as they faded. The original colors
ranged from dark blues to daring
pinks, reds, whites, and oranges, says
Emmerling.
Most signicantly, mass
spectrometer tests on organic parts
of the clay mix provide the rst
scientic dating of the statues; until
now that dating was based solely on
the style of the robes. To the teams
surprise, the smaller Buddha appears
to date from between a.d. 544 and
595, and the larger one between
a.d. 591 and 644. Previously, most
scholars familiar with Bamiyan had
suggested a date from one to two
centuries earlier. The new dating
means that Hsuan Tsang saw the
statues when they were relatively
new. Even more importantly, it
demonstrates that Buddhism was
still thriving even as Islam began
to spread into the region. This ts
with recent scholarship that suggests
that Afghanistan adopted Islam
slowly, and that the new religion
was part of a diverse and vibrant
mix of Buddhism, Hinduism, and
even Christianity until

about a.d. 1000. On
the 10th anniversary of
the demolition of the
Buddhas this past March,
a team of UNESCO
representatives gathered
in Paris to commemorate
the event and take stock
of the site. Various plans
to rebuild the Buddhas
have been rejected as too
costly and dicult, says
Cassar, who took part in
the meeting. Although he
doesnt rule out supporting
the reconstruction of
the Buddhas someday in
the future, he adds that
the focus today is on
completing the work$5
million worth in the past
seven yearsof plugging
The folds of the Buddhas robes were made by
dangerous cracks in the
attaching clay to the stone statues using ropes
unstable niches, removing and wooden pegs, and then sculpting it. This
photograph of the larger statue was taken in 1997.
unexploded mines and
bombs near the statues
bases, and conserving what
since it is made of soft sandstone
they can from the rubble left behind.
and now lacks its protective clay
Emmerling warns that the
covering. Injecting an organic silicon
remaining rubble will soon degrade,
compound into each piece of rubble
might slow or halt that decay, but
this process would require either
building a small but expensive
factory in Bamiyan or moving the
rock to Germany for treatment, a
daunting prospect involving the
organization and transport of
hundreds of massive boulders. In
the meantime, the team is working
on a 3-D model of the cli face that
shows where each piece of rubble
came from in the original statues.
UNESCO representatives and
Afghan ocials are also creating
a site museum, due to open this
summer. Cassar says it will be
modest in scope but will explain
both the creation and destruction
of the statues. Its opening will mark
a new beginning of sorts for the
battered but unbowed Buddhas of
Archaeologists are now sorting through masses of rubble, searching for evidence of
Bamiyan. Andrew Lawler
how and when the Buddhas were created. They are also working on strategies for
conserving and preserving the remaining statue fragments.
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A research team from Stanford University measures the acoustic properties

of shell trumpets and the tunnels beneath the site of Chavn de Huntar using
special microphones. The research is providing new insights into ancient rituals.
Listening to the Gods of Ancient Peru
he ruins of the Chavn de

Huntar temple complex in
the northern Andes were
once the spiritual center of a culture
whose inuence was felt throughout
the coastal valleys of most of
modern-day Peru. The 125-acre site
was occupied from about 1500 to
400 b.c., during which time it
extended its power and inuence by
spreading its religion. The priests of
Chavn became a cultural elite,
perhaps the rst upper class in the
Peruvian Andes.
The feats of architecture at
Chavn include massive, multistory
stone buildings adorned with
ceramics and carvings of bone, shell,
and stone, anked by plazas 200
feet on a side. But deep inside and
below the structures is something
even more intriguing: a labyrinth
of stone-lined corridors, shafts,
galleries, and drains that have
survived more or less intact and
undisturbed. The maze of tunnels
and small rectangular alcoves, some
14
of which are more than 40 feet

below the surface, are capable of
disorienting people through tricks
of sound. A team of archaeologists,
anthropologists, and acoustics
experts from Stanfords Center
for Computer Research in Music
and Acoustics (CCRMA) is trying
to nd out if these tunnels were
deliberately designed to produce
these eects.
chieving an altered state of

mind is a part of many religious ceremonies around the
world, and that may have been what
the priests of Chavn were trying to
create for participants in their rituals.
Even before they descended into the
tunnels, Chavns visitors and residents would have been surrounded
by evidence of spiritual power and
mind-altering rituals. Its buildings
facades were decorated with carvings
of human and semi-human heads.
Some wore grimaces or had mucus
trails coming from their noses, both
eects of having psychotropic snu

blown up the nostrils through a tube.
Other carved heads have snakes in
place of hair, while other images have
the features of large cats or birds of
prey, important animals in shamanistic rituals.
One carving found in a small
circular plaza, most likely reserved
for the elite and special ceremonies,
shows a person holding a San Pedro
cactus, a source of the hallucinogenic
drug mescaline. Elaborately carved
bone tubes, spatulas, and miniature
mortars and pestles, possibly used
to prepare and ingest psychotropic
drugs, have also been found at the
site. However, some of the strangest
parts of these ancient rituals may
have been the sounds that the
participants heard.
havns sound eects were

rst noted in the 1970s by
Peruvian archaeologist Luis
Lumbreras, who proposed that the
network of tunnels beneath the city
was essentially a series of resonance

rooms connected by corridors that
acted as sound transmission tubes.
When one visits Chavn today,
certain noises seem amplied yet
dicult to pinpoint. Any kind of
sound made down therehumming,
talking, or even just footsteps
creates profound resonances, says
Miriam Kolar, a doctoral student
with the CCRMA, who is studying
the sites acoustics.
While archaeologists cannot
denitively say that Chavns tunnels
were deliberately constructed to
create particular acoustic eects, they
do have evidence that sounds were
being produced down there. In 2001,
20 decorated marine-shell trumpets
called pututus were found in one of
Chavns galleries. These were very
important instruments, says John
Rick, the Stanford anthropologist
who has led the excavations since
1995. They were made from a
tropical species of conch that had
to have been brought from at least
The tunnels beneath Chavn de Huntar

may have been designed to enhance the
sound of voices or musical instruments
such as this flute.
www.archaeology.org
500 miles away. Each

ad a
10-inch shell had
mouthpiece cut
d
into one end and
an unexplained
V-shaped
notch cut in
the outer lip.
Some were
so polished
by use that
the thick pink
shells were
n
worn through in
ng
places, suggesting
decades or even
ndling.
centuries of handling.
Signicantly for the researchers, they
are still playable.
In order to understand the eect
these shell trumpets may have had
on people listening to them, the
CCRMA team decided to analyze
the acoustic properties of both
the shells and the labyrinth. In the
case of the shells, the researchers
recorded the sound of each
trumpet under carefully controlled
conditions, using 10 microphones,
including one inside the players
mouth. With signal-processing
software they captured each shells
acoustic signature in digital form.
The researchers noted that the
instruments have a rich overtone
structure, giving them a full sound
like bells or human voices. They
can produce noises ranging from a
wind whisper to an animal roar, and,
in the hands of an expert, they can
sound louder than a chainsaw from
three feet away.
The next step was to take acoustic
measurements of Chavns tunnels.
The work focused on three galleries,
each made up of long corridors with
numerous right-angle turns and
side alcoves. There were hundreds
of yards of gallery spaces in all, each
generally between three and six feet
wide and ve to 10 feet high. Test
signals played on an iPod sounded
through monitors set ve feet high,
roughly Chavn-era head height, and
dozens of receivers throughout each
Sna
Snakes emerging
from the nostrils
of this figure
ma
may represent
m
mucus running
ou
out of the nose
of someone
w
who has inhaled
a psychedelic
d
drug.
gallery recorded the results.

The researchers found that echoes
in the galleries built extremely
rapidly and from many directions
simultaneously, making them
diuse and hard to locate. Tones in
the same frequency range as both
human voices and the shell trumpets
produced consistent resonances in
the alcoves, giving them an unusually
rich sound, like singing in a tiled
shower.
Archaeologists have traditionally
been slow to accept evidence that
ancient people manipulated their
environments to create sound eects.
Acoustics is a gray area for skeptics,
Rick says. Ive been a skeptic all my
life. You cant just wave your hand
and say, I hear something strange.
But the sound-making artifacts
and, possibly, the architectural
features found at Chavn make it
extraordinarily likely, according
to Rick, that some sort of sound
manipulation was going on,
especially when combined with the
signs of ceremonial practices.
hile measuring the sites

acoustics is a start, interpreting the results brings
up many more questions. Were these
properties deliberate or a uke of
construction? Did they exist when
the site was occupied, or did they
change over time? Moving a wall, or
using wood beams to hold up a sag15
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olar will present results

from her ongoing
work later this year,
but she says that patterns are
denitely emerging in terms of
how people perceive sound in
Chavns underground galleries.
Some architectural features
seem to lter noises in certain
ways, and the team is close to
being able to map the way that
design and construction favors
certain frequencies.
Their ultimate goal is to
create an acoustic model
of the space, which would
make it possible to digitally
reconstruct the eect of any
sound at any location, heard
from any other. That way
anyone anywhere could hear
and experiment with Chavns
acoustics, and they would be
preserved forever.
Recording shell trumpets being played in
Chavns tunnels will allow the researchers to
Physical conservation is
make an accurate acoustic model of the site.
a priority for archaeologists,
since many of the galleries
ging ceiling, can have a drastic eect
have bulging, waterlogged walls. Rick
on certain frequencies. Even if a site
says they hope to put the original
does have unusual acoustics, were
three-mile drainage system back into
they put to use, and if so, how? The
service starting this summer. In the
most important and most dicult
meantime, theyre trying to gure out
question to answer is whether the
whether the galleries were modied
sound properties had any cultural
over time to enhance or preserve their
signicance.
acoustics, which could oer clues to
What we can know for certain is
whether the eects were intentional
that sound has power, and not just in
or not.
a concert hall. A 2008 UCLA study
Kolar says she sometimes brings
found that listening to a resonant
friends down into the galleries just
frequency of 110 hertz, in the range
to experience the sound of the conch
of a shell trumpet or a low male voice,
trumpets for themselves. Its always
temporarily shifted volunteers brain
amazing what eects you get, and
activity from the logic processing
how that surprises people, she says.
left side to the emotional right side.
Some people report feeling ill at ease,
Chavns religious leaders could have
even nauseated, as the low-frequency
used unearthly noises, along with
tones vibrate through their bodies
psychoactive drugs, strange lights,
in the dimness. Kolar has felt this
and images, to convince others they
herself, but also has felt very relaxed,
held the power of gods, or could
very mellowed out after hours of
become gods themselves. To take
hearing the trumpets playing. You
it a step further, rituals of sensory
denitely feel like youre in a dierent
overload and coercion may have
world.
Julian Smith
Early Americans Went Coastal
tone tools found at three

sites in Californias Channel
Islands show that a group
of people adapted to coastal living
had moved into North America by
about 12,200 years ago. Archaeologists previously thought that the
continent was inhabited only by
the big-game-hunting Clovis culture at that time.
A team of archaeologists led by
Jon Erlandson of the University
of Oregon and Torben Rick of the
Smithsonian Institution uncovered stemmed as well as crescentshaped projectile points that are
similar to tools found throughout
the Great Basin (an area that cov-
The Atacama Desert of northern

Chile is mostly known as one of
the driest places on the planet
and for being home to several
major astronomical observatories.
It was also home to the Atacama
people, who established an
advanced pre-Columbian society
in the parched region. Intrepid
desert adventurers can learn more
about how they did it from the
largely unknown site of Topain,
according to archaeologist Diego
ers parts of Oregon, Nevada, Utah,

and California). In both places they
were used to hunt birds and aquatic
life as well as some medium- and
small-sized game.
Erlandson believes the discovery
shows that the settlement of the
Americas was more complicated
than the old view that big-game
hunters came through an inland
ice-free corridor and then spread
gradually to the sea. It suggests that
people may have migrated down the
coast, and taken left turns inland
up the major river valleys, he says.
It would have been a relatively easy
transition from the coast to the interior lakes.
Zach Zorich
Salazar of the University of Chile.

The town was settled between A.D.
1000 and 1200 and inhabited until
the Inca conquest in the sixteenth
century. Though it was ignored for
decades, archaeological excavations
are now showing how special the
site is, Salazar says.
The site Topain contains the
remains of more than 100 habitation
structures that seem to have included
underground storage and burials. But
whats truly fascinating about the

site is how its residents managed
their scarce water supplies through
complex agro-hydraulic systems.
These systems of stone canals,
dams, aqueducts, and rumimoqos
(holding ponds), which are
impeccably preserved, carried water
from sources several miles away
and were necessary for the highly
complex society and agriculture.
Another site nearby, Paniri, is
thought to have the same kind of
agro-hydraulic systempossibly
even largerthough it has not yet
been studied. Salazar says this
work will start soon in collaboration
with the local Aquina people, who
consider the sites sacred.
While youre in the region
More Atacama remains can be seen at
the popular sites of Tulor and Lasana,
among others. A variety of desert
excursions can also be arranged from
the towns of Calama or San Pedro
de Atacama, which also hosts the
R.P. Gustavo Le Paige Archaeological
Museum, home to 380,000 preColumbian artifacts. Regional
attractions include desert valleys,
hot springs, geysers, amingosand
stargazing. Its a landscape unlike any
other on Earth. Just be sure to bring
plenty of water on any expedition.
MALIN BANYASZ
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Song Dynasty Tomb Discovered
eemingly every day, spectacular nds are made by archaeologists working across
China. One of the most astonishing
discoveries of the year is a well-preserved tomb uncovered in the city
of Dengfeng in central Chinas
Henan Province. Every inch of the
tomb, which dates to the Song
Dynasty (9601279), is covered in
brightly colored frescoes that depict
the daily life of the tombs occupant.
(Neither the identity nor sex of the
tombs owner or owners has been
reported, although the elaborate
decoration suggests that he or she
was well-o and of high status.)
The frescoes were clearly executed
by an artist with extensive experi18
ence decorating the hexagonalshaped tombs of the period.

The tombs pictorial program,
which includes scenes of serving
women (top), a husband and wife
seated at a table being served a
meal (left, far left panel), and a
woman ushering the deceaseds soul
into the netherworld (left, center
panel), is typical of Song Dynasty
tombs, says Roberta Bickford of
Brown University. Every detail
of each persons clothing and
hairstyle is carefully depicted to
communicate their status, and the
utensils and pottery replicate what
would have been in common use
at the time. According to Nancy
Berliner, Curator of Chinese Art
at the Peabody Essex Museum,

the imitated architectural details,
especially the dougong bracketing,
are faithful to the period. Dougong,
the structural element of interlocking wooden brackets (left,
embellishment seen above the
panels with the gures) is one of the
most typical elements of traditional
Chinese architecture, she says.
After centuries of violent
conict and division in China, the
Song Dynasty rulers unied most
of the country. This ushered in
a period of peace and prosperity
that scholars consider one of the
most culturally sophisticated in
Chinese history.
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Rescuing the Rapanui
hen the famous British

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volcanic-rock statues. The solemn
faces of the moai that dotted the
landscape seemed to be the work of
a large, highly organized society that
had suddenly fallen apart. Archaeologists Terry Hunt of the University
of Hawaii and Carl Lipo of California State University, Long Beach,
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moaisome weigh as much as 14
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timber. In his book Collapse, Jared
Diamond stated that the Rapanui
cut down the islands palm forests
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This environmental devastation
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civil war around 1680 that led to
starvation, and, nally, cannibalism.
Alternatively, Hunt and Lipo cite
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and twisted refrigerator style and
could be moved 600 feet a day by just
16 men with ropes. They also believe
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Moai facing inland

at Ahu Tongariki,
Easter Island
The authors present a believable

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How Animals
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ow did we become human?

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Pat Shipman, a biological anthropologist at Penn State University, argues
instead that our unique history is a
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them, Shipman writes. The rst toolmaking was also part of the animal
connection. Early tools were primarily
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almost entirely devoted to depictions
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The Animal Connection is an
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can transform both specieseven
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respectfully something magical
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vides thorough, readable accounts of

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ARIZONA: Geocaching is a hobby in

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and then challenge others to find
them using only GPS coordinates. A
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thin-walled pot used by the Yavapai
between 600 and 100 years ago.
Knowing the importance of archaeological context, he did what came
naturallyhe marked the location
with his GPS and notified authorities
of the rare, fragile find.
PANAMA: From a reef at the mouth

of the Chagres River, underwater
archaeologists have raised what they
believe are cannons from the fleet of
privateer and rum pitchman Captain
Henry Morgan. Morgans ship,
Satisfaction, ran aground in 1671 on
the way to raid Panama City in
response to a Spanish attack on
Jamaica. The cannons are the first
known artifacts of his Panamanian
excursion.
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NEW YORK: Despite its modern lack

of either greenery or open space,
downtown Manhattan was, as
recently as the 19th century, part
farmland. Construction workers
stumbled across a site from that
timea wall and well that were once
part of the farm of Stephanus van
Cortlandt, the citys first native-born
mayor, and his descendants. Among
other artifacts, archaeologists found
a pipestem, pottery and stoneware,
and a yellow ceramic birds head, all
likely
ly from the
18th
h century.
BRAZIL: Digs being conducted on

Rio de Janeiros waterfront in
advance of the 2016 Olympics have
revealed the remains of Valongo
Wharf, where as many as a
million African slaves were
unloaded and traded in the
early 19th century. Once considered
a shameful blot on the citys history,
the site will now be preserved. It has
produced artifacts of both Rios ruling classes and slaves, including
cowrie shells and amulets representative of African spiritual practices.
WALES: In The Lord of the Rings,

flaming hilltop beacons are used to
communicate between distant kingdoms. But they might not just be
fantasy. Iron Age hillforts could have
had a similar purpose 2,500 years
ago. To test it, a heritage group
organized the Hillfort Glow
Experiment, getting 350 volunteers
to communicate between 10 hillforts
with flares and flashlights (no Middle
Earth pyres, thoughit is fragile
habitat). In some cases, the glow
connected hills 25 miles apart.
SOUTH
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year
witnessed the
announcement of a
new member
of the human family,
Australopithecus sediba, who
lived in South Africa nearly two million years ago. Paleoanthropologists
have now found two more A. sediba
individualsan adult and infant
who fell in a cave death trap.
Combined with the older female
and youth found previously, scientists are now able to study the
development of these early hominins, who show a combination of
primitive and modern skeletal traits,
from cradle to grave.
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his city is one of those that must live and

relive, come what may, wrote the nineteenthcentury French geographer lise Reclus.
The conquerors pass on and the city is reborn
behind them. Phoenician port, Roman beachhead, Byzantine lawgiver, Ottoman backwater, and Paris of the Middle
East, Beirut has been an urban chameleon. In the past
century alone, it morphed from the center of Arab culture,
intrigue, and nightlife into a symbol of sectarian strife as a
15-year civil war laid waste to its boulevards and buildings.
Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite
impossible, concludes British writer Jan Morris.
Even as Beirut reinvents itself yet againthis time as a
skyscraper-studded center of nancea new generation of
young Lebanese archaeologists is ghting to reclaim the citys
complicated past before it is gone for good. In the rush to
build during the past decade, Roman ruins were bulldozed,
columns were crushed into cement, and piles of ancient
debris were relegated to the city dump. Now a small army of
some 50 excavators and hundreds of workers are attempting
to stay one step ahead of the luxury condos and oce towers that threaten to wipe away whats left of Beiruts ancient
remains. No longer dependent on the foreign experts who
once dominated Lebanese archaeology, this group is forging
agreements with developers to conduct extensive rescue
excavations. There has been a void, but now we are taking
responsibility for our own heritage, says Assaad Seif, the
acting chief of Lebanons state department of archaeology.
As the modern city rises,

archaeologists uncover evidence
of its complex history and
changing fortunes
by Andrew Lawler
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hat we know of Beiruts ancient history is

more a series of snapshots than a continuous
record. Sixty thousand years ago, early humans
made stone tools on the tongue of land that extends out
from the Lebanon Mountains and forms the citys modern
boundaries. Archaeologists have uncovered a small Neolithic
village dating to 4000 b.c. near todays airport. As civilization
emerged in the third millennium b.c., the rst major cities
along the Mediterranean coast took root nearby. Byblos,
now a half-hour drive up the coast, ourished, while Tyre
and Sidon grew to the south. These important ports became
centers for the seafaring Phoenicians, a trading people who
spread across the region between the sixteenth and fourth

centuries b.c.
But Beirut seems to have been a rather unimportant
town in that period. A modest Phoenician seawall dates to
700 b.c., and invading Persians wrecked and then rebuilt
the town on a grid plan in the fourth century b.c. A small
cluster of 16 houses from that era was recently uncovered
when the nineteenth-century marketplace was demolished
and rebuilt. Even the fth-century b.c. Greek traveler and
historian Herodotus overlooked Beirut, despite mentioning other cities, including Tyre and Sidon, in the area. Two
centuries later, these were important prizes for Alexander the
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Across Beirut, archaeologists are uncovering centuries

of evidence clarifying the citys long and complicated
history. In the Riad el Solh area downtown, the remains
of a massive 1st-century Roman wall that may once
have been more than 20 feet wide are visible.
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Great, whereas the chronicles of the generals campaigns in

the region in 332 b.c. do not even mention Beirut.
It was the expansion of the Roman Empire in the rst century b.c. that nally gave Beirut a chance to outshine its more
famous rivals. The city lacked a good harbor, but it did have a
bay that could shelter a large number of ships. In 31 b.c., the
Roman general Marc Antonys eet lay at anchor here, and
his ally and lover, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, had coins
stamped in her likeness at a Beirut mint as well. But that
same year Octaviansoon to be the emperor Augustus
defeated both at the Battle of Actium in Greece. The emperor
then chose Beirut as a beachhead for Roman domination of
the East. Unlike the larger and more established cities of Tyre
or Sidon, Beirut proved friendly to the outsiders. The tough
tribes living in the Lebanon Mountains had long plagued the
city, and Beiruts inhabitants welcomed two Roman legions
as protection. Augustus also settled Roman veterans here,
and turned Beirut into a colonia, or tax-free zone.
With the cooperation of the Judean king Herod Agrippa I,
the emperor built forums, temples, a hippodrome, colonnades,
roads, and aqueducts in what had once been a modest town.
The rst-century a.d. Jewish historian Josephus says Herod
had a magnicent amphitheater built where 1,400 gladiators were pitted against one another in a single day. His son,
Herod Agrippa II, continued that patronage, inciting jealousy
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In the Saifi area east of Martyrs Square, archaeologist

Fadi Beayno watches as the first two layers of soil are
removed from a future construction site. All around the city,
archaeologists and developers are starting to cooperate to
record the citys past while building for the future.
from the Judean cities to the south, according to Josephus. The

historian adds that Jewish rebels were burned, forced to ght,
or thrown to wild animals in the amphitheater following their
uprising, which led to Jerusalems destruction in a.d. 70.
With prosperity, the arts and intellectual life ourished.
By the third century a.d., Beirut was the center for the teaching of Roman law, according to Gregory Thaumaturgus, a
Christian writer of the time. Rome and the Byzantine capital
of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) also had law schools,
but contemporary texts show that Beirut quickly became the
place to go in the East to study law. Within a century, the
chronicler Libanius praised the city as mother of the laws.
Unlike the famous ancient library of Alexandria in Egypt,
which was mostly destroyed during the bitter ghts between
pagans and Christians, Beiruts law school survived and
prospered, despite the churchs suspicion of non-biblical
learning. As the Roman Empire collapsed in the West, the
Byzantine Empire emerged as its heir in the East during the
fth century a.d. Beirut, strategically located between Con-
stantinople and Alexandria, was the focal point of imperial

rule. The lawyers of Beirut proved well-equipped to interpret
imperial decrees and set codes of justice for the Byzantines.
When the emperor Justinian called for reform of the legal
codes, he turned to Beiruts scholars to oversee the revision.
The new codes publication in a.d. 533 marked the heyday
of Beiruts intellectual inuence. But on a July day in a.d. 551,
an earthquake registering an estimated 7.6 on the Richter
scale rocked the city, killing tens of thousands of people and
toppling most of its monuments and buildings. The law
school moved to hated rival Sidon. In the following centuries,
Arab armies, Crusader knights, and Mamluk rulers captured
Beirut in succession. The Ottomans absorbed the town into
their empire in the eighteenth century. By then, Beirut was
the same sort of sleepy port town it had been before 31
b.c. Ottoman authorities later built the regions quarantine
facility there, requiring all ships in the area to halt in port to
contain the spread of disease. The city eventually attracted
Western missionaries and commercial interests, putting it on
a course for a renewed era of prosperity. Universities sprang
up, a publishing industry grew, and an improved port and
new road to Damascus gave Beirut the opportunity for a
new startuntil it was again destroyed, this time by civil
war that lasted from 1975 to 1990.
Anthropologist Freddie El Richani cleans a storage jar dating to
the 2nd century found in the Saifi area (below). Downtown,
excavations are uncovering not only the citys ancient Roman
history (top right), but also evidence for earlier periods,
especially in the area of the city wall (bottom right).
he many layers of Beiruts occupation and

destruction make the city a rich and complex archaeological site, but in the rush to rebuild after the war,
archaeology was usually the loser. That started to change in
2005, when a new group of archaeologists led by Seif began
to agitate for change. They called for enforcement of existing laws protecting ancient sites, tracked new construction
projects, and negotiated agreements in which developers are
obliged to pay for excavations, with the understanding that
the scholars will have time limits to complete their work.
Such contracts are common in many Western countries, but
had not been widely practiced in Lebanon.
The scale of research now under way is unprecedented.
One site being excavated by Fadi Beayno covers three acres
in the heart of the old city. Here, in February 2011, work
began on the development called The District, touted on
its website as a city within a city, which will contain a total
of two dozen buildings, including condos, penthouses, and
retail areas. The site is located inside the Hellenistic and
Roman city, but outside the smaller medieval town. As of
now, only the construction materials from later Ottoman
dwellings have been recovered. Any smaller remains, such as
those from Neolithic times, are likely to go unnoticed.
Like other Lebanese excavators, Beayno was trained at a
local university, but he has also worked with foreign teams,
most of whom left by the late 1990s when the initial phase of
reconstruction of the downtown area was completed.From
1998 until 2005, there was a gap, there was no work, he
recalls. Today, he and his colleagues are slowly assembling a
mass of new data. We are nally starting to understand the
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In the Jemmayz area east of downtown

Beirut, archaeologists have uncovered a
large caldarium, the room of an ancient
Roman bathing complex where the hot
plunge was located. Water was heated by
circulating hot air under the floor around
small columns like those seen at right.
phases of occupation in Beirut, Beayno

adds. Dating buildings in Beirut can
be extremely challenging. As a result of
the citys continuous occupation, stones
from older buildings were frequently
mined in later ages. Ottoman structures
may include Hellenistic, Roman, and
Byzantine elements. In the later Ottoman period, you could get a permit to
recoup stones, says Seif. It was very
well organized by professionals. This
makes it dicult for archaeologists to
piece together the citys appearance in any
one period. However, tracing the expansion and contraction of the city is now
conceivable. Landscape studies reveal
a constantly shifting scene of urban, suburban, and rural
environments. There are also surprising constants.Many of
the roads didnt change for 2,000 years, he says. Streets laid
down in the Hellenistic period (fourth to rst century b.c.)
were still being used in the nineteenth century, and there is
evidence that Roman engineers leveled hills and lled gullies
in order to atten the terrain to make building easier and
regularize the street plan.
A few blocks west of The District, on the edge of the
ancient city, Beaynos wife, Christine, leads a team working
on the site of what will be another luxury complex. They have
already been excavating there for a year, and have only another eight months before construction begins in earnest.
Work at the 1.5-acre site, where they have cleared a
15-foot-deep rectangular hole, has already yielded the
remains of a massive Roman wall dating to the rst centuries
a.d. Beirut was long thought not to have been fortied during the days when Romes army enforced peace throughout
the region. If this wall is identied as a fortication wall, it
would be a great surprise. It is also possible that the wall was
part of a monumental building. A small statue of Isocrates, a
fourth-century b.c. Greek rhetorician much admired by later
Roman lawgivers, was found nearby. Thats not a gure you
would typically have in your family house, says Seif, during a visit to the site. So there may beand Im cautious
heresome connection with the law school. Pinpointing
the location of the law school, the most famous of ancient
Beiruts institutions, is one of the greatest quests among the
citys archaeologists. Several sites have been suggested, based
on evidence from texts and archaeological work, but nothing
decisive has been uncovered.
n the eastern side of downtown, Hadi Choueri,

the 31-year-old director of one of Beiruts most
important excavations, is wrapping up work on a
smaller site. After 15 months, the team has found a limestone
Hellenistic wall from approximately the second century b.c.
and a sandstone Roman wall from a few centuries later, each
about nine feet wide and running parallel to each other. They
Archaeologists are working to uncover earlier occupation

layers that may lie underneath the tepidarium, or warm room,
of the ancient Roman bath complex.
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Archaeologist Roula Reaid cleans a Roman amphora in

preparation for sampling and analyzing the carbonized
material still inside.
were likely city walls, providing excavators with a way to

sample life both inside and outside the citys boundaries. For
example, a line of small single-room structures along a lane
inside the Hellenistic wall could be remains of a shopping
district from the early centuries b.c. Just outside the walls,
anthropologist Freddie El Richani puzzles over an amphora
that someone lled to the brim with small shells and carefully
sealed underneath a oor some two millennia ago. The vessel
may, he says, have been an oering of some sort. Nearby is
another intriguing nd: the grave of a young child with its
skeleton intact, save for the lower leg bones. Analysis of these
and other bones found in graves scattered around the site
may reveal much about Beiruts early inhabitants, including
the foods they ate and the diseases they suered from.
Perhaps the most dramatic discovery here is of a collapsed
stable dating to the Byzantine period. El Richani identied
the remains of four donkeys against a wall, on top of each
other, facing the same direction. All had died suddenly. A
short distance away, the excavators found the skeletons of
another three donkeys piled alongside a camel against a low
wall. On top of one of the camels bones was a coin made in
Constantinople dating to a.d. 508. While not denitive evidence of the a.d. 551 earthquake, this new material may give
archaeologists a chance to understand the calamity, which
has only been known through textual sources.
The enormous amount of data being generated by the
many excavationssix major ones were under way this past
spring in the center of Beirut aloneis of great concern to
Seif. The eld archaeologists working for developers are paid
to dig and record, but not to publish. The Lebanese governThe skeletons of several donkeys and a camel uncovered
east of Martyrs Square may be evidence of a massive
earthquake in 551.
ment has so far not been willing to pay for the time and eort
needed to do so.I know that this is one of our most dicult
challenges, says Seif. While some archaeologists are applying their eldwork to advanced degrees, many are contract
workers living from one job to the next, with no benets
and little time for, or experience with, the consuming job
of publishing results. In the meantime, Beirut continues to
boom, each new building potentially a lost opportunity to dig
into the citys complex past. Most of the ruins will ultimately
be destroyed to make way for parking garages mandated
by law for the basements of the mammoth new buildings.
But the results obtained by the archaeologists promise to
transform both our understanding of the city and the way
archaeology will be done in Lebanon in the future.Much of
the citys history is being discovered today. And contractors
are changing their habits, and are willing to work with us,
says Choueri. He and others say this is a welcome change.
Beiruts archaeologists are always mindful of the demands
of a city undergoing tremendous changes. As Fadi Beayno
says, In urban archaeology, you need to know when to use a
brush and when to use a backhoe. And in a city that thrives
on reinvention, archaeologists have to keep one step ahead
of the next Beirut.
Andrew Lawler is a contributing editor to Archaeology.
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n August , a group of eight design engineers left their jobs at the

semiconductor company Motorola to create a low-cost computer microprocessor with a competing company, MOS Technology. Within a year, the
team built a tiny wafer of silicon and metal smaller than the size of a persons
pinky ngernail called the MOS 6502. The new central processing unit
(CPU), which is essentially the brain of a computer, would revolutionize
its industry by enabling computers to come into the home. The 6502 was
inexpensive and easy to programtwo features that ultimately helped it
sell tens of millions of units.
Those units (or minor variations of it) eventually found their way into several
classic computers, many of which were the rst to appear in homes in both the U.S.
and the U.K. in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They could be found in Apple Is and
IIs, Commodore PETs and 64s, BBC Micros, Atari 2600s, and Nintendo Entertainment Systems. The chips inuence also enabled the mobile computing of todaythe
British company ARM makes microprocessors inspired by the simple elegance of the
6502 for devices such as the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android smartphones.
Back in 1974, the original schematic for the 6502 was sketched out by hand on a
drafting board. (In contrast, todays design methodology has hundreds of engineers
working on hundreds of computers creating archived digital les of their work when
collaborating on todays microprocessors.) The creator of the 6502s schematic doesnt
Digital archaeologists excavate the microprocessor

that ushered in the home computing revolution
by Nikhil Swaminathan
know where that document is today, and very little information on how the chip was
created survives. Further, in the more than 35 years since its design, the understanding of how this remarkable chip performed its functions was lost.
The 6502 is the last of that generation where processor manufacturing was a
work of art, says Barry Silverman, a Toronto-based software consultant and part of
a three-person team that reverse-engineered the 6502 to determine how it worked
and to preserve it for posterity. In artifact terms, you might have a lot of examples
of a particular piece of pottery, but the way it was created is gone. Even though it
hasnt been that long, its quite rare to nd someone who remembers exactly what
they did more than 30 years ago.
The team behind the conservation of the 6502 was Silverman, his brother Brian,
who is president of a Montreal company that designs digital education experiences
for children, and Greg James, a graphics software engineer based in San Francisco. To
accomplish its task, the trio treated the chip almost as if it were a dig site. They excavated the 4-by-3.5-millimeter chip, took high-resolution photographs of its layers,
and mapped its circuitry. Their historical preservation work culminated in a website
called Visual 6502 (www.visual6502.org), which hosts a simple simulation of the chip
at work, allowing visitors to understand how electrical signals ow through the chip
to accomplish the mathematical computations that drive a computers function.
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This detailed line

drawing of the MOS
Technology 6502
microprocessor is a
physical description
of all the connections
between the various
circuits on the chip.
The members of the Visual 6502 team refer to themselves as digital archaeologists, a term that Christopher Witmore, an archaeologist at Texas Tech University agrees is accurate.Even to say excavation is
quite appropriate here because you have to dig down through the components, you have unpack it and
take it apart, he explains. So much of it is lost, meaning its wide open for archaeologists to engage.
ill Mensch refers to himself as a tall, thin man, a term that among the computer engineering set refers to a person who understands how a microprocessor works from the silicon
level to the system level. Mensch was one of the primary designers of the 6502 and was part of
the cadre of former Motorola employees who defected to the Pennsylvania-based MOS Technology
in late summer 1974, led by Chuck Peddle, whose idea for a low-cost CPU was rejected by Motorola
top brass. In particular, Mensch was responsible for the design of the chips circuitry.
The CPU is essentially a maze of circuits mounted on a silicon wafer. Dotting the circuits are
transistors, junctions of wires that act as switches, which can open or close o a particular pathway.
The microprocessor reads an input from the particular program (anything from an operating system
to a game), performs transactions as required, and then writes its output to the computers memory.
Essentially, its the master of ceremonies, deciding what to focus on, making sure each step is followed,
and presenting various resultssending them to memory, a monitor, or a printer.
Mensch drew the entire layout of the chip on a single sheet of paper that he says was likely about
3.5-by-4-feet in size. Designers at companies such as Xerox created sprawling schematics of up to hun-
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David X. Cohen has said that his fondness for the

chip came from programming video games on his
Apple II Plus in high school.
According to Mensch, through the mid-1980s,
beginning computer engineers learned the craft of
microprocessor design by studying the 6502. Today,
while chip designers may appreciate the simplicity
of the 6502, they design only discrete parts of the
CPUs. The era of the tall, thin man is over, says
Mensch.
n , while browsing a retro computer

parts website, Greg James saw two 6502s on
sale for $10 each. He bought them both. Hed
recently cleaned out his garage and stumbled upon
A 1974 photo of the MOS Technology 6502 design team with a design
schematic. Bill Mensch is standing second from the left.
an Atari 2600 and an Apple II, two machines that
had played a big part in my childhood. He credits
the former with teaching him that computers were fun and
dreds of pages with dierent sections of a chip on each. His
the latter with introducing him to programming. When he
method, he says, guaranteed that the logic ow (specically,
realized that both ran on essentially the same chipthe
how steps of process control and arithmetic are performed
Atari contains an MOS Technology 6507, a 6502 in dierby the chip and then passed along) matched with the wiring
ent plastic packaginghe started to research the microproof dierent transistors and circuits on the microprocessor. Its
cessor, eventually tracking down an incomplete schematic
a what you see is what you get approach that means, despite
that he thought he could improve on to determine how the
the original diagram being lost, the excavation of the chip by
chip worked.
the Visual 6502 team would be able to clearly demonstrate
To analyze and then preserve the 6502, James treated it
how it functioned. If anybody really studies Visual 6502 in
like the site of an excavation. First, he needed to expose the
detail, Mensch explains,what theyll nd is that everything
actual chip by removing its packaging of essentially billiardwas strategically located at its best position on the chip.
ball plastic. He eroded the casing by squirting it with very
When it debuted at the Western Electronic Show and
hot, concentrated sulfuric acid. After cleaning the chip with
Convention at San Franciscos St. Francis Hotel, MOS Techan ultrasonic cleanermuch like whats used for dentures
nologys 6502 was four times faster and two to four times
or contact lenseshe could see its top layer.
smaller than competing chips oered by Motorola and Intel.
The 6502 has three basic layers. The bottom layer is a
It was also roughly a tenth of the cost, being sold for $25 a
wafer of silicon known as the substrate. Above it is a thin
piece out of a big old Mason jar.
layer of polysilicon wires that form transistors and build
Soon, the 6502 would become ubiquitous. Apple Comcircuits around the chip. The top layer is thick metal wiring
puter cofounder Stephen Wozniak was among those who
primarily for supplying power. Its bulky structures obscure
picked up a couple of chips. I would credit Apple and
the polysilicons complex maze of wiring. Wires in a single
Wozniak for popularizing the 6502, says Mensch, adding
layer cant cross over one another, so connections can be made
that personal computing took o thanks to the Apple IIs
between layers to clear the cobweb of polysilicon and pack
expansion slots that allowed consumers to add memory or
circuits closer together.
install an extra oppy disk drive. Though Apple was among
After photographing the chips topmost layer, James
the rst to incorporate the 6502, it wasnt the best-selling
removed the metal using phosphoric acid mixed with acetic
brand to use the chip. In the mid-1980s, casual computer
acid and nitric acid heated to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Once
consumers favored the Commodore family of home comthe metal was gone, he took another photograph. That was
puters, which also ran on a version of the 6502. But the
the money photograph, says James of the moment when,
Nintendo Entertainment System outsold every other device
in a real-world excavation, archaeologists can observe a
that the 6502 appeared in, combined, moving close to 62
landscape of artifacts, like canals or foundations of homes.
million units.
James went one step further, removing the polysilicon layer
The 6502s prole extended to pop culture, where it
with hydrouoric acid, so that he could capture an image of
apparently powered two well-known ctional robots:
the bare substrate.
the Terminator and Bender from the animated series
Once he had all three photographs, he enlarged them to
Futurama. In the 1984 lm The Terminator, scenes shown
thousands of times their actual size and aligned them, creatfrom the perspective of the title character, played by Arnold
ing images of a complicated network akin to a dense map of
Schwarzenegger, include 6502 programming code on the left
roadways. He then traced them, creating a complex network
side of the screen. In a 1999 episode of Futurama, its revealed
of lines like the maps drawn by Google or Mapquest. The
that Benders brain is powered by a 6502. Executive producer
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The 6502 (and its slight variants) were used

in systems such as (from top to bottom)
the Commodore 64, Apple II, Nintendo
Entertainment System, and the Atari 2600
gaming console.
vitual map includes the precise position and shape of each

component in each layer of the chip, clearly identifying components like metal wires, transistors, and vias (holes in layers
that allow wires to pass through and connect two levels).
James sent these full circuit extraction drawings to Barry
and Brian Silverman. The brothers translated James circuit
model into an inventory of the 6502s
components and connectivity (spelling out
which component is connected to which
other ones). This detailed list, called a
netlist, is essentially the 6502.
The Silvermans then created a simple
web-based simulation in which the virtual
chip is turned on and allowed to run. A signal sent to a single input of the virtual chip
causes certain transistors to ip on and o,
which is shown in the simulation by changing the transistors color. These switches
trigger other transistors to ip, causing a cascade as information steps through the chip.
Eventually, the switches settle and the signal
dies out. Then a new signal starts and runs a
dierent course. How each cascade proceeds
demonstrates how dierent parts of the chip are connected
and the state the chip is left in after a cascade, each of which
demonstrates how a dierent computation is done.
One Bay Area 6502 fan who saw the simulation obtained
the netlist from the Visual 6502 team and fed the description into a chameleon chip called a eld programmable
gate array that consists of many transistors that can
be programmed to connect in dierent ways. By
lending the chameleon the characteristics of a
6502, he was able to hook it up to an old Atari
2600 and run games. That means that we
dont need actual 6502 chips to drive old
hardware or to study how old hardware
works, explains James.Were not crippled
by the fact that the original 6502 is no longer
being made.
he pace at which the computer industry moves

causes new technology to become obsolete within
a matter of years. The more than 35 years since the
release of the 6502 has seen a complete shift
in the way people interact with technology.
Arguably every new technology transforms
our rapport with our world, says Witmore,
the Texas Tech archaeologist.Theyre really
prosthetics of humanity. Think about a
movie like Back to the Future. Marty McFly
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may have been overwhelmed by what he

saw in 2015, but had his son from the future
been suddenly transported back to 1985,
he would have been just as befuddled when
placed in front of a Commodore.
The only thing that comes close to replicating the rate of growth in the electronics
and computing elds is bacteria, says Dag
Splicer, a senior curator at the Computer History Museum
in Mountain View, California. Indeed, since the release of
the 6502, which contained 3,500 transistors, the sophistication of microprocessors has advanced by many orders
of magnitude. In 1965, Gordon Moore, the
cofounder of Intel, predicted that the number of
transistors that chip designers could stu onto
a single silicon chip would double every year at
least until 1975. His prediction was accurate far
beyond that point. Intels current top-of-the-line
desktop computer microprocessor, the Intel Core
i7, has more than 700 million transistorsright
in the neighborhood of what Moores Law would
predict. Modern chips have something like 10
layers of metal all stacked up on each other,
James says, allowing for more transistors and
more computing power.
As these advances keep coming, the
devices of the present quickly become relics
of the past. Digital media will not survive
by accident, explains Witmore. If you leave a 3.5inch oppy disk in a tomb next to a rolled-up papyrus, you
can unroll that papyrus and engage with it in a way that you
cant with a oppy, which requires you to bring other materials to bear, like a particular computer or knowledge of a chip
capable of reading the data on the disk.
While there is no formal protocol for preserving
our digital technologies, the Visual
6502 team is expanding its work to
other chips, such as the Motorola 6800,
which the 6502 undercut with its lower
price point. James has also excavated
and photographed the other two chips
in his Atari 2600one drove the
graphics display and the other handled
joystick inputs. One of the teams future
projects is to preserve an entire Commodore
64 system, which means not only excavating its chips, but
also characterizing its motherboard, the circuit board that
connects the CPU with the chips that control sound, inputs/
outputs, and control the disk drives.
People take for granted that our digital artifacts
are going to be preserved, says Visual 6502s Barry
Silverman. To preserve an exact copy is not that
easy. Its got to be an active process.
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n 1943, British archaeologist Bernard Fagg received a

visitor in the central Nigerian town of Jos, where he
had spent the previous few years gathering and classifying ancient artifacts found on a rugged plateau.
The visitor carried a terracotta head that, he said, had
been perched atop a scarecrow in a nearby yam eld. Fagg
was intrigued. The piece resembled a terracotta monkey head
he had seen a few years earlier, and neither piece matched the
artifacts of any known ancient African civilization.
Fagg, a man of boundless curiosity and energy, traveled
across central Nigeria looking for similar artifacts. As he
recounted later, Fagg discovered local people had been
nding terracottas in odd places for yearsburied under
a hockey eld, perched on a rocky hilltop, protruding from
piles of gravel released by power-hoses in tin mining. He set
up shop in a whitewashed cottage that still stands outside
the village of Nok and soon gathered nearly 200 terracottas
through purchase, persuasion, and his own excavations. Soil
analysis from the spots where the artifacts were found dated
them to around 500 b.c. This seemed impossible since the
type of complex societies that would have produced such
works were not supposed to have existed in West Africa that
early. But when Fagg subjected plant matter found embedded
in the terracotta to the then-new technique of radiocarbon
dating, the dates ranged from 440 b.c. to a.d. 200. He later
dated the scarecrow headnow called the Jemaa Head after
the village where it was found
to about 500 b.c. using a process called thermoluminescence
which gauges the time since
baked clay was red. Through a
combination of luck, legwork, and new dating techniques,
Fagg and his collaborators had apparently discovered a hitherto unknown civilization, which he named Nok.
One excavation site, near the village of Taruga, revealed
something else Fagg had not expected: iron furnaces. He
found 13 such furnaces, and terracotta gurines were in such
close associationinside the furnaces and around them
that he postulated the terracottas were objects of worship to
aid blacksmithing and smelting. Carbon dating of charcoal
inside the furnaces revealed dates as far back as 280 b.c., giving Nok the earliest dates for iron smelting in sub-Saharan
Africa up to that time. The high number of smelters and
quantity of terracottas suggested he had found evidence of
a dense, settled population.
Thus, in short order, Fagg had discovered some of the key
markers of an advanced civilization: rened art and organized worship, metal smelting, and sucient population to
support these activities. But he knew such a society did not
appear in isolation. Fagg, now back at Oxford University in
England, wrote that Nok culture had almost certainly begun
earlier and survived longer than he had evidence for at the
time. It was the product of a mature tradition, he wrote,
with the probability of a long antecedent history, of which
as yet, no trace has been found.
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Unlocking the secrets of West

Africas earliest known civilization
by Roger Atwood
fter years of doing little archaeological exploration in the area, scholars are now returning to
the scrubby, hilly lands where Fagg worked and are
nding that, indeed, the Nok thrived for longer than he had
realized. They may have been the rst complex civilization in
West Africa, existing from at least 900 b.c. to about a.d. 200.
Their terracottas are now some of the most iconic ancient
objects from Africa. And they may be the rst society in
Africa south of the Sahara to smelt iron, although at least
half a dozen competitors for that title have surfaced since
Fagg rst excavated a Nok furnace.
Nigeria has a reputation for chaos, corruption, and expensive
visas that has kept archaeologists away and drastically slowed
the pace of research. In 1959, anthropologist George Murdock
quipped that for every ton of earth moved by archaeologists on
the Nile, a teaspoon is moved on the Niger. Scholarship has
also been hampered by an almost 40-year campaign of looting
at Nok sites fed by the growing appetite for African antiquities
among collectors in the United States and Europe.
No one continued with the work of Bernard Fagg. Instead
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A terracotta head created by the Nok culture, one of ancient

West Africas most advanced civilizations, emerges at a dig
site near Janjala, Nigeria.
of scientic exploration, the Nok became a victim of illegal

digging and international art dealers, says Peter Breunig,
of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt,
Germany. Looting tapered o after about 2005 because of
tighter export restrictions and a glut of fakes that frightened
o collectors. Now, interest in Iron Age societies in Africa
is surging as archaeologists contemplate a wide-open eld
that could hold essential insights into how technologies
especially ironspread across continents.
Breunig and his colleague Nicole Rupp are leading a
team of German and Nigerian researchers, students, and
even former looters excavating sites over some 150 square
miles in central Nigeria, about two hours drive north of the
capital, Abuja. Their study area is but a microcosm of the
Nok world, which covered more than 30,000 square miles,
an area the size of Portugal.
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For more than 2,000 years since the start

rt of the Nok
period, Nigerians have been building stone house bases
like this one (above). The Nok were expert terracotta
craftsman and their human figurines are one of the
most distinctive artifacts they left behind
nd (right).
n a black granite mountain

towering over the savannah,
Rupp and her team are digging
neat trenches at the summit. Within
minutes, they start to nd pottery sherds,
grinding stones, and fragments of red terracotta sculpture of the type rst found by
Fagg. Within an hour, the excavators havee
s.
lled three big Ziploc bags with artifacts.
Among them is a terracotta arm broken o

ce
of a larger statue. Its coarse, grainy surface
fy
and realistic modeling immediately identify
vey
it as distinctively Nok. In his classic survey
of African art, Frank Willet wrote thatt the
adition
Nok created Africas earliest sculptural tradition
ries, the
outside of Egypt. Like their contemporaries,
soldier-builders of Xian, China, the Nok mastered the
almost limitless sculptural possibilities of terracotta. With it
they created gures depicting illness, warfare, love, and music.
For example, Rupp and Breunigs team has found a sculpture
of a man and woman kneeling in front of each other, their
arms wrapped around each other in a loving embrace, and
also several bare-buttocked prisoners with ropes around their
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necks aand waists. Another gure, which

has a skull
s
for a head and wears an amulet
aroun
around his neck, is shaking two instrumen
ments resembling maracas. There is also a
gu
gure of a man with a wispy moustache,
mo
mouth open, as if in speech or song, and
on
one of a man playing a drum resting
bbetween his legs, possibly the earliest
d
depiction of musical performance in
ssub-Saharan Africa. At one site, Breuunig and Rupp found 1,700 pieces of
te
terracotta in barely 450 square yards,
ind
indicating a large population.
Despite the thematic variety, Nok
ter
terracotta has some characteristics that
per
persist over hundreds of square miles
and centuries of production. Figures
almo
almost always show large-headed people
with almond
almond-shaped eyes and parted lips. They
often have gr
grand headdresses or hairdos, which
may indicate high status. A common pose, and
one much imit
imitated by forgers, shows a man sitting
with his arms resting
re
on his knees, gazing outward.
Microscopic inspection of the clay used in the terracotta
shows it to be remarkably uniform over the whole Nok area,
suggesting that the clay came from a single, yet-undiscovered
source. It could, says Breunig, support the idea of a unied
Nok state or central authority of some kind.The homogeneity of the clay used for terracotta might indicate centralized
The triangular eyes and parted lips

of this Nok terracotta figurine are
e
characteristic of an artistic style
e
that endured for millennia even
after the Nok culture disappeared.
This one may represent a deity, an
ancestor, or be a portrait.
rtrait.
production. But other interpretations, including the

concentration of skilled specialists, are no less probable at the moment, says Breunig. I think there was
a set of respected, central rules that were enforced either
on beliefs, or both.
through authorities, or through common
Rupp agrees. When you look at a piece like this, she
rm, you can see that
says, referring to the just-discovered arm,
the Nok were experts at making terracotta. There was a
specialized, creative class. There may have been a kind of
terracotta guild, which, if true, would suggest the Nok had
well-developed class hierarchy, she adds.
reunig and Rupp have found about 20 iron implements, including fearsome spear points, bracelets, and
small knives, most of which are fairly crude-looking.
How and when Africans developed iron is important
because metallurgy is considered a crucial marker in the
shift to complex societies. Manufacturing metal means better tools for farming, hunting, and preparing food, as well as
better weapons for waging war and gaining resources. Yet
whether metal-working creates the conditions for civilization to ourish or vice versa remains an open question for
archaeologists.
Carbon
C
b dating
d i on charcoal
h
l that
h Breunig
B
i gathered
h d from
f
a Nok iron smelter at a site called Intini yielded a date of
between 519 and 410 b.c., suggesting that iron technology
was established earlier than previous scholars, including Fagg,
had realized. These may not be the oldest smelters in subSaharan Africa, however. French archaeologists have located
evidence of iron-smelting in the Termit Hills of Niger from
as early as 1400 b.c., but critics point out that the wood
used for dating could have been centuries old, a problem
that dogs carbon dating, especially in very arid places such
as Niger, where the wood desiccates and lasts longer. Breunig acknowledges that the problem could distort dates for
the Intini furnace as well. But he has an important piece of
evidenceNok pottery, found inside the furnace alongside
the charcoal, suggesting that they were placed there around
the same time.
At Nok sites, metal tools made
around 500 have been found
alongside stone tools, attesting to the
manufacture of iron while stone was
still being used.
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As a result of his research, Breunig has been able to

isolate a moment in time when iron and stone implements
coexisted. Excavators regularly nd iron tools only a short
distance from Nok stone axes, suggesting they were used in
the same communities, maybe even the same households.
When iron rst develops, it might be too rare or too costly
to be wasted on axes or other things that you can make with
stone, he says. Our hypothesis is that iron tools replaced
stone tools only after the technology was developed enough
to deliver sucient quantities of iron. The Nok is an almost
perfect culture on which to test this assumption.
Breunigs evidence has also reinforced a view held by
most archaeologists that ancient West Africans moved from
stone tools directly to iron, without an intervening copper
age. Thats a leap that few other parts of the world appear
to have made. With the exception of a site in Mauritania
known as Grotte aux Chauves-souris, where, starting in
1968, French archaeologists found copper tools and furnaces
dating from 800 to 200 b.c., and another in Niger called
Cuivre II, excavated by French archaeologists in the 1980s
and dating from slightly earlier, researchers have yet to nd
evidence of copper smelting before iron smelting anywhere
in West Africa. Its transition from Stone Age to Iron Age
has puzzled researchers since Western European and North
African cultures moved into iron after rst smelting copper
for a millennium or so (while others, such as those in Peru,
made copper for centuries without ever developing iron).In
the sense of a progression of technological periods, with few
exceptions, there was not a Copper Age between the Stone
and Iron ages in West Africa, says Tom Fenn, an expert on
African metallurgy at the University of Arizona.
Iron technology was probably brought across the Sahara
by travelers from North Africa, says Rod McIntosh, an
African specialist at Yale University. But archaeologists are
looking at the possibility that West Africans developed
iron-working technology autonomously, possibly starting

with the Nok. Iron technology, and whether it was imported
from across the Sahara or developed in West Africa, is currently a red-hot topic in the scholarly community. Skeptics
of autonomous development are accused of denigrating the
achievements of African technology, whereas believers are
accused of lacking hard evidence. It has become a political
debate, says Breunig. He will not commit to one side of
the argument over the other before he excavates more Nok
smelters, which he plans to do with a French archaeometallurgist next year.
One skeptic is Rdiger Krause, a European Iron Age
expert at Goethe University. When people see that somebody else has better technology, it moves very fast. And iron
knives are much better than stone. You can sharpen them,
he says. Mobility was very high in the ancient world. From
the north coast of Africa to Nigeria is not a great distance
for the movement of a new technology.
ittle is understood about how Nok society

ended. Sometime after a.d. 200, the once-thriving
Nok population declined, as attested to by a sharp
drop in the volume of pottery and terracotta in soil layers
corresponding to those years. Overexploitation of natural
resources and a heavy reliance on charcoal may have played
a role, says Breunig.
Even more puzzling is Noks legacy to later cultures. Art
historians have long seen Nok as an isolated phenomenon,
a splendid relic cut o from the sequence of African art
over the next two millennia. Later civilizations in southern
Nigeria had advanced metalworking skills and a tradition of
naturalistic portraiture, and art historians are looking more
closely at what they might owe to Nok. The most celebrated
of these later cultures was Ife (pronounced EE-feh), whose
people in southwestern Nigeria turned bronze into stunning
portrait heads around a.d. 1300.
We would need more research to establish a stylistic
Archaeologist Peter Breunig visits the family of a team member near
the excavation site.
continuum between Nok and Ife, says Musa Hambolu,
research director at Nigerias National Commission for
Museums and Monuments in Abuja.To do this would
require more detailed study of Nok sculptures because,
for now, the evidence is very fragmentary.
Bernard Fagg wrestled with this questionwhere
did Nok culture come from, and where did it go?
He wrote about the striking similarities of style and
subject matter between Nok and Ife but acknowledged there was no proof the people of Ife had ever
seen Nok terracottas. Now Breunig is trying to solve
that riddle. In the space of 1,000 years, West Africa
moved from sedentary farming complexes like Nok
to great empires, [such as Ife and Benin], he says.
No society is completely isolated in time. Thats a
story were starting to tell.
Roger Atwood is a contributing editor to
Archaeology. He currently lives in London.
Found among the wellpreserved remains of a

Roman villa inhabited
until the 1st century
was a cubiculum, or
bedroom, decorated with
frescoes and an intricate
geometric mosaic.
Assisis Roman Villa

A surprise discovery under a medieval Italian town square
by Marco Merola
n September , , a strong earthquake shook the central Italian town

of Assisi, birthplace of St. Francis. The
quake damaged dozens of medieval
buildings and shattered into tens of
thousands of pieces the frescoes that
covered the walls and ceiling of the Basilica of St. Francis.
These include thirteenth-century frescoes by the greatest
early Renaissance mastersGiotto, Cimabue, Simone
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Martini, and Pietro Lorenzetti. (After ve years and millions of dollars, the frescoes were restored to as close to their
original condition as possible.) But just half a mile from the
Basilica, untouched by the earthquake, lay other beautiful
frescoes that once covered the walls of a rst-century a.d.
Roman villa.
Four years after the earthquake, authorities began to stabilize and modernize some of Assisis oldest structures. They
decided that one of these buildings, the seventeenth-century
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The Romans often used architectural

motifs, images of mythical animals such
as griffins, and human faces in their fresco
painting, as seen in the houses triclinium,
or dining room (above). The first room
of the house to be identified was the
peristyle (right), a colonnaded space that
usually had a garden at the center.
Palazzo Giamp, which houses the towns court, would get

an elevator. This required engineers to dig deep down to
the buildings foundations. But work stopped almost immediately. Only 20 inches below the entrance, builders had
begun to nd pieces of stucco of a kind that is often found
decorating ancient Roman column capitals. Right away we
had to start a real excavation, says Maria Laura Manca of
the Archaeological Superintendents oce in Umbria, who
supervised the dig. Soon the archaeologists had uncovered
three 14- to 15-foot-tall columns that formed the peristyle
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(a colonnaded space with a central garden) of a very large

house. We had not ever expected a discovery of this kind,
says Manca. We were astounded.
For the next two years, Manca continued digging, eventually uncovering the entire peristyle, a space of almost
300 square feet originally surrounded by brick and stucco
columns. In 2002 the team uncovered another large space,
perhaps an oecus (a type of large hallway), which had been
hastily lled up with earth and abandoned in antiquity.
Manca believes that a ood caused by the rupture of the
(Above) A fresco that runs around the wainscot

of the cubiculum, or bedroom, shows two welldressed women (far left, far right) watching a
scene of an upper-class woman attended by her
maid. A shirtless young man runs toward the
seated woman holding a lamp.
(Below) The colorfully decorated walls

of the triclinium, or dining room, were
covered with vibrant frescoes mimicking
large panels of polychrome marble.
houses two cisterns necessitated the spaces being sealed o

between the rst centuries b.c. and a.d.
Finally, in 2003, archaeologists discovered a third room.
Little by little, as they removed the earth lling the space,
they began to uncover a large white frescoed wall, on which
was painted a tripod and an architectural element with a grifn perched on top. Soon Manca began to understand that
the peristyle, oecus, and this room, probably the triclinium
or dining room, belonged to an impressive house. These
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ately thought that the master who painted them must have
come from Rome, says Manca.
The excavations came to a stop a few months later when
both time and money ran out. They would not start again
until 2006, when Manca decided to expand the project and
explore not only the area under the Palazzo Giamp, but
also under the adjacent building, which held the oces of the
committee for the Calendimaggio, a popular town festival celebrating Holy Week. Soon Mancas decision paid o. Right
under the oces of the Calendimaggio the team discovered
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a large room that had almost certainly been a cubiculum, or

bedroom, whose oor was covered with an impressive black
and white geometric mosaic and whose walls were covered
with nely painted, vibrant frescoes of a type almost never
seen outside of Pompeii.
We had quite a lot to study, says Manca. This house
is exceptional because both the walls and oors are so well
preserved. There is nothing like this north of Rome. The
House of the Surgeon in Rimini, the House of the Gardens
in Brescia, and the House of the Stone Carpets in Ravenna
all have splendid pavements, but their walls only stand 20

to 25 inches high. This is an historic discovery, she adds. In
addition, although archaeologists knew that Assisi had been
a thriving Roman commercial town called Asisium since the
third century b.c., very little has been found to tell the story
of the citys ancient past.
Having nally completed the excavation of the villa this
year, Manca hopes to change this. Two thousand years ago,
north of Assisis medieval center, there was an area probably
lled with public and religious buildings, of which only the
Radu Zaharia, a mosaic conservator from

Romania, works to fill in the missing
plaster that holds together the tesserae,
or marble tiles, of the mosaic on the
cubiculums floor (top left). The houses
frescoes, including the bird from the
cubiculum (left), are very well executed,
leading archaeologists to suggest that
the artist who painted them may have
come from Rome. Roman houses usually
contained shrines called lararia honoring
ancestors who protected both the house
and the family. The terracotta lararium
(above) was found just outside the
doorway of the cubiculum.
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The houses owner, who, according to archaeologists, may

be depicted in this fresco from the cubiculum, would likely
have been a wealthy merchant. Roman Asisium (modern
Assisi), was a thriving commercial town and home to many
prosperous families.
remains of the Temple of Minerva are visible. To the south,

there was a residential quarter where some of Asisiums richest families lived. We are going to concentrate our eorts in
the future there, says Manca. But she also hopes to return to
the excavation of the house someday.It would be wonderful
to uncover all the rooms that once faced the peristyle, she
says,and to reconnect all the parts of the house that lie under
the town. This is the most important archaeological evidence
of the ancient city we have ever found.
Marco Merola is a freelance journalist working in Rome.
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Australias Shackled
A fresh look at the convict era
when tens of thousands of
exiled criminals helped lay the
foundation of a modern nation
by Samir S. Patel
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he posh new youth hostel in The

Rocks, Sydneys oldest neighborhood, is
built on stilts. Below and around this backpackers haven is a tableau of everyday life
from modern Australias rst years, when
it was a penal colony and the most remote
branch of the British Empire. The foundations and other
artifacts here were revealed during extensive archaeological
digs in 1994 that uncovered almost two full blocks between
Cumberland and Gloucester streets. Wayne Johnson, an
archaeologist with the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority,
beams with pride about the hostel, which was designed to
preserve in situ the remains of 48 houses and shops occupied
by convicts and ex-convicts. The hostel even collects an extra
dollar on each nights stay for maintenance and preservation.
Similar public preservation of archaeological remains can be
seen at the Museum of Sydney (site of the First Government
House), the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (the ornate
early stables), and Hyde Park Barracks (once a major convict
depot, now a museum). The city really seems to embrace its
In Sydneys oldest neighborhood, The Rocks,

archaeological remains from the convict erawhen
Australia was a British penal colonyhave been
preserved in situ beneath a modern hostel.
Pioneers
criminal heritage, though in some parts of the country, the
convict stain is still a sore point.
Between 1788 and 1868, 170,000 men and women were
brought halfway around the world, from crowded, draconian Georgian prisons to an uncooperative, alien wilderness
more than 30 times the size of Britain. The Crown wasnt
merely trying to get rid of these peoplewell, maybe some
of themit was also trying to start a self-sucient colony
15,000 miles from home.
For both visitors and many Australians, its easy to get
lost in barbarous fantasies about the period. Every stone
building with small windows looks like a gaol. One imagines
the lash and shackles and solitary connement. Another
scenario casts the convicts as political prisoners who remade
themselves as frontiersmen and pioneers. Neither imagined
pastdegrading or digniedis wrong exactly, but the
truth of the era is more complex and therefore widely misunderstood. Convict Australia was an interconnected network
of penal systems that varied by location, by serving governor
of each sub-colony, and with evolving British philosophies
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of punishment and reform. It ranged from the working-class

alleys of The Rocks to the madness-inducing solitary cells
of Sarah Island to the almost idyllic life of the road gangs of
the Swan Valley.
There are, of course, many documents from the period, but
there are almost no histories by the convicts themselves that
document their diets or indulgences or underground economies. Historical archaeology on both coasts and oshore
islands, especially in the states of New South Wales (of which
Sydney is the capital), Tasmania, and Western Australia, is
lling in those gaps, revealing the range of convict experience
and documenting their substantial contribution to the survival
and prosperity of the hardscrabble colonies that eventually
became a modern nation. The convicts were, according to
University of Manchester historical archaeologist Eleanor
Conlin Casella, the backbone of the colonial population.
The Rocks was the rst place convicts settled when they
arrived in 1788. By the 1810s, stone and timber houses had
taken the place of wattle-and-daub huts, and by 1822 more
than 1,200 peoplealmost all cons or ex-conscalled
The Rocks home. The excavations revealed, among many
other things, buildings owned by one George Cribb, an
entrepreneurial scoundrel who, although a convict himself,
established a number of businesses, including a butcher shop
and a hotel. Cribbs success, told through the illegal liquor
still, broken Chinese porcelain, and still-sharp let knife
found in his well, is just one of many tales of convict life that
have emerged from digs around the country over the last few
decades. These stories are helping make sense of a complex
legacy, a source of both pride and shame.
ransportation, as the British euphemistically referred to the practice of exiling criminals to

Australia, began as the empire was reeling from the
loss of its American colonies. Fearing the rise of a criminal
class and struggling with an overowing penal system,
the Crown found in transportation a hasty solution that
would also cut o French colonial designs in the southern
hemisphere. Much to the bewilderment of the native Eora
people, the First Fleet of 11 ships arrived in January 1788,
carrying 1,487 people, including ocials, crew, soldiers, and
778 male and female convicts, most of them petty thieves.
The edgling colony at Sydney Cove struggled for years near
starvation until good farmland was nally found. Transportation continued in various forms for 80 years, peaking in the
early 1830s, when many found themselves in the rigid prison
system of Tasmania. The last convicts arrived in Western
Australiaa free colony that requested convicts to use as
laborin 1868.
In the decades after transportation, many former convicts and their descendants tried to hide their heritage.
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Several Australian archaeologists spoke

of the shock and indignation their grandmothers expressed when they were simply
asked whether there were convicts in the
family. For years, the impulse was to wipe
out physical traces of the convict stain. As a
result, according to Martin Gibbs, director
of the Australian archaeology program at
the University of Sydney, They were still
quite gleefully destroying convict sites into
the 1980s and beyond.
But some survived. Historical archaeology emerged in response to calls for preservation of Australias modern history and provided a way to understand early Australias
social dynamics, class identity, and resource
distributionby reexamining its founding
narrative and myths. During the 1970s,
heritage legislation created opportunities
for study and reection. This provided a
much greater ability to consider the convict past as part of national heritage, says
Denis Gojak, a heritage specialist with New
South Wales Roads and Trac Authority.
Since then, there have been scores of digs
on sites related to the convict period, but
an ongoing challenge for the eld is dening precisely what constitutes a convict site
or artifact. Convicts were often so fully
integrated into society that their material
culture can be indistinguishable from that
of free settlers or emancipated convicts.
Outside of large penal institutions such as
Port Arthur and Fremantle Prison, chains,
shackles, and other obvious signs of convict
presence are vanishingly rare. Denitely a
question the eld must come to terms with,
says Casella, is when does a convict cease
being a convict and just become an early
Australian settler?
Some of the larger, more obviously penal
sites, including Port Arthur and Fremantle
Prison, were recently accepted for UNESCO World Heritage status. These institutional structures were more often places of
processing or secondary punishment, and
not representative of the convict experience.
The material culture of convictism extends
far beyond these buildings, encompassing
everything from major public works built
by convicts to camps they stayed in between
jobs to neighborhoods they established.
Ongoing archaeology in New South Wales,
Tasmania, and Western Australia illustrates the complex, distributed nature of
the convict world.
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Michael Harrington, Thomas

Darragh, and Robert Cranston
were Irish rebels imprisoned in
Western Australia at the end of
the convict era. They were among
six who made a daring, successful
escape aboard an American
whaler in 1876.
ew South Wales, on the southeastern coast of Australia, was the

continents rst European colony
and a convict society for its rst 50 years.
Always was, always will be a criminal state,
says Gojak. New South Wales convicts
were much more integrated into the fabric of
society than in any other colony. The early
convicts, in particular, had many freedoms,
as long as they showed up for work each day.
The Rocks, with the densest concentration
of historical archaeology in the country
home to more than 30 digsillustrates the
entrepreneurial side of convict life in which
former criminals, free of the social strictures of Britain, built their own homes and
surrounded themselves with the trappings
of civilized society. Rather than the jail or
chain gang, the household was the convicts
fundamental social unit during the early
years of the colony.
The Foreshore Authority maintains a
warehouse in the neighborhood packed to
the rafters with archaeological material
including three-quarters of a million artifacts from the Cumberland/Gloucester
streets site alonethat is helping explain
how convict and emancipated convict households were structured. While the culture
there often seems to resemble working-class
British society, it diers in interesting ways.
The material remains from the Cumberland/Gloucester streets site suggest a culture
of aspiration, opportunityand ne china.
Fortunes were made among these convicts,
says Johnson. Theyre surrounding themselves with material goods. There is a large
quantity of expensive Chinese porcelain
tableware, and the people of the neighborhood ate welllamb, oysters, sh, chicken,
and bottled preserves from Britain (and,
notably, no kangaroo). It is a culture of ne
clothes and coarse accents, a snapshot of the
development of a middle class. Its not like
theres one pretty plate, there are thousands,
says Grace Karskens, a historian at the University of New South Wales who consulted
on the excavation. They even possessed collectible goods, such as the Roman coin and
Egyptian gurine found at another site in
The Rocks. Thats not to say that all convicts
found successmany others died poor and
alone, or were sent o to Norfolk Island or
Tasmania for secondary punishment.
For all the modern tastes, however,
Cribbs buildings show that he was operatARCHAEOLOGY July/August 2011
ing a slaughteryard in the middle of the neighborhood

archaeologists found his let knife and loads of waste from
butchery, tanning, and the manufacture of bone buttons and
glue. The sounds and smells would have been onerous.
According to Karskens, its an odd juxtaposition of a modern commercial economy and a primitive, preindustrial social
organization, where work and home were one and the same.
And while they ate o ne china, there was very little glass
found at the site, suggesting they might have drunk from communal, passed glassesa decidedly less rened practice.
By the halfway point of his 14-year sentence, Cribb had
built a small business empire, including a pub, butcher shop,
farm, and row of four tenements. Hes constantly on the
make, says Johnson. He probably also dabbled in a prohibited vice, alcohol, attested to by the small still found in his
well. The houses and yards of The Rocks were more than
signs of some form of social progress, they were also a place
to subvert the colonys ocial economy.
Elsewhere in New South Wales, archaeological sites
point to the distributed nature of convict remains, the
integration of convicts into society, and the systems early
focus on colonization, occupation, and agriculture, rather
than punishment. Karskens work on the Old Great North
Road, a massive early convict project, shows that communal work was the dominant pattern of life. In the modern
township of Parramatta, the colonys second settlement and
agricultural savior, many sites have been excavated, including

convict huts. What Parramatta really tells us about is the
lives of emancipated convicts and how they changed their
lives, says Mary Casey of the archaeological rm Casey &
Lowe. In fact, New South Wales begins to resemble less an
institutional landscape than a more traditional agricultural
outpost, integral to the colonys survival and eventual success. One of the huts even belonged to a convict named
Samuel Larkin, an ancestor of former Australian prime
minister Kevin Rudd.
he next phase of transportation marked a bit

of a correction, away from freedom and back toward
punishment. From 1819 to 1821, British commissioner J.T. Bigge conducted an inquiry to assess the Sydney
colony.He was asked to nd if it could be made a place of terror, says Karskens. He reported with some dismay the relative
freedom under progressive governor Lachlan Macquarie and
described The Rocks as a place of debauchery and villainy.
Bigges report and a change in penal philosophy led to a more
punitive, institutional approach in Australia. The freedom and
abandon of The Rocks gave way to Hyde Park Barracks, road
gangs, and more distant penal stations, including the growth
and consolidation of a new penal colony in Van Diemens
Land. Known today as Tasmania, it is the large island that
hangs like a droplet of paint o the continents southeastern
More than 750,000 artifacts from the excavation

at the Cumberland/Gloucester streets site in
Sydney are stored in a warehouse in The Rocks
(below). The site, including the well of convict
entrepreneur George Cribb (right), was preserved
in place. A mesh re-creation of the original facade
of the tenement neighborhood is visible at back.
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Two of the most dreaded sites of the convict era

were Port Arthur (left) and Sarah Island (below) in
Tasmania, which were operated as industrial gulags
for mining, timber, and ship-building. Today, both
are part of the convict-related tourism industry.
coast, 700 miles from Sydney. Between 1803

and 1853, 75,000 men and women were
sent there, a place most known for oggings, madness, and death.That horror has
dominated the idea of the convict period in
the popular mind, says Karskens.
The prison colony of Van Diemens Land, a generah
tion after the First Fleet, was much more rigid, though
the archaeology there is showing the interesting ways thatt
convicts continued to subvert the rules. The men and
women brought thereincluding almost all transported
convicts from 1840 to 1853were expected to progress
ly
through a series of correctional stages. It was explicitly
intended to regularize the experience of convict transportation, says Manchesters Casella, who has excavated
Archaeology has helped reveal underground
economies among convicts and guards. These
buttons, from the Ross Female Factory in Tasmania,
may have been used as currency in illicit trade.
de
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at and analyzed the artifact collections from

several Tasmanian sites. After 1840, initial arrivals, known as the Crime Class, were morally
graded and assigned to better or worse prison
conditions. If they showed enough progress,
they joined the Hiring Class and were sent to
one of 85 convict stations to work for the colony
or free settlers. Dutiful workers could then be
granted a form of probation, while recidivists
received some of the harshest punishment the
colony could dish outsolitary connement or
work in coal mines.
Excavations at the main convict station at
Port Arthuroften considered something of
an industrial gulaginvestigated a variety of
structures, including the prisoner barracks,
commandants house, and the bakehouse of a
nearby boys prison. Digging at the penitentiary
there has revealed a network of pipes that show
how seriously administrators took the matter of
hygiene among prisoners. And a metal workshop
nearby shows evidence that the convicts were
doing after-hours work, perhaps for trade with
guards. Preservation eorts have made Port
Arthur the rst site in emerging convict-related
tourism. Almost instantly the site went from
convict settlement to convict tourism destination, says Jody Steele of the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority.
Archaeology in Van Diemens Land has also
fo
focused on the so-called Female Factories, where
w
women convicts were employed in sewing and textile
pr
production. These sites, including the Cascades and
Ros factories, are the worlds rst examples of penal
Ross
in
institutions
run exclusively for women, a generation before
th appeared anywhere else. Among the 75,000 people
they
tra
transported
to Van Diemens Land, approximately
12
12,000
were women, one of the largest involunta migrations of women and children during
tary
tthe modern era, says Casella.
Casellas detailed analysis of the artifact
co
collection from the Ross Female Factory,
ex
excavated in the mid-1990s, shows a side
of life for these women that is not reected
a history. Subversive inmate relations
in any
ac
actually
structure everyday life in these institutions,
she says. Like the convicts with relative freedom in New
South Wales, the women of Van Diemens Land engaged in
b
a black
market that gave them access to prohibited indulge
gences, such as alcohol and tobacco. Non-uniform buttons
found at the site may have been a kind of prison currency

(as were sexual favors). Surprisingly, the greatest concentration of illicit material, including alcohol bottles and tobacco
pipes, was found in the solitary cells, suggesting that the most
incorrigible inmates were among the leaders of this underground economy. Female convicts sentenced to periods of
separate treatment enthusiastically maintained their access
to diverting luxuries, Casella writes. The part of the prison
intended to be most punitive and harsh was apparently a hub
of barter and smuggling.
Casella and Steele have most recently excavated solitary
cells on Sarah Islanda prison among prisons, perhaps the
worst hellhole in a system that had many. Analysis has barely
begun, but theyve already documented the later conversion
of a solitary cell into a replace and bricks covered in convict
grati. There, convicts were exploited in a massive industrial
complex for timber and ship-building. They provided the
labor, perhaps the only common theme between the despair of
Sarah Island and the last phase of convict transportation, the
more liberal and labor-focused system of Western Australia.
nlike the colonies in both New South Wales

and Van Diemens Land, the rst white settlement
in Western Australia, the Swan River Colony, was
started by free settlers in 1829 (eventually growing into the
modern city of Perth). But like the other two, the colony
stagnatedjust 5,000 settlers hung onto the remote western edge of the continent, seemingly as far from
the more established colony of New South Wales
(across 2,000 miles of desert) as it was from Britain. Among the many things it lacked were strong
backs and skilled hands, and currency to grease
the wheels of its economy. The colony was tiny,
isolated, struggling, and going nowhere fast, says
Sean Winter, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of
Western Australia who is studying convict depots.
In the late 1840s, landowners forced the colony to
ask Britain for convictsyoung, skilled men convicted of petty crimes. They asked for the best of
the convicts, but changing attitudes toward police,
prisons, and reform were bringing about the end of
the transportation system, and Britain wanted to rid
itself of the worst. Between 1850 and 1868, 10,000
men, eventually including hardened criminals,
were brought over. Western Australia was the nal
evolution of this great British experiment in penal
philosophy. Any punishment or rehabilitation that
resulted was accidental. They were there to build.
The rst convicts, arriving in June 1850 aboard
the Scindian, were set to work right away building
bridges and their own lodgingFremantle Prison,
perhaps the most imposing edice of the convict era. And

they built it to lastFremantle was an active prison (mostly
for Aborigines after the convict era) until 1991. Now a museum, it has been home to dozens of excavations, including a
recent one of a convict-built cellar for the superintendent.
The prison wards are being renovated, with each wing being
preserved to a dierent era of the prisons history. And each
cell is like an excavation in itself. In one case, a collapsed
ceiling revealed 150 years of human occupationan inch of
dandru, torn-up letters, and the 1913 rules and regulations
book. Its quite a dark place, when you think about it, says
Luke Donegan, interpretation manager of the museum, with
little trace of irony. I tend to focus on the heritage aspects.
Most convicts spent only the briefest time in Fremantle
Prison. With good behaviorsometimes within just days
the men were given a ticket-of-leave, a kind of parole that sent
them o to a depot where they would be put to work on roads
or could hire themselves out. Winter has been excavating the
convict depot in the agricultural suburb of York.Theres been
virtually no research into it in Western Australia, he says.
Before we can ask the really interesting questions, we have
to get the basic information sketched out.
Winter and a few students and volunteers dig in a small
area behind the superintendents convict-built houseitself
an artifact, a mishmash of architectural styles that reects
the mobility of convicts at the time. Theyre going through
the camps toilet, demolished in the 1890s. Life out there
Fremantle Prison in Western Australia was built

by convicts in the 1850s and was continuously in
use until 1991. Its cell blocks are being restored to
represent various periods in the prisons history.
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might have been not entirely unpleasant compared with

the pain and deprivation of Van Diemens Land, especially
when it was run by renowned prison reformer Sir Edmund
Du Cane. Weve found no evidence even of restraints here,
says Winter. Nothing to indicate any form of punishment
or violence.
In the privy, Winter has found a wide selection of tobacco
pipes from Glasgow and London, suggesting that the convict
period brought in outside goods, which had been severely
lacking in the colony. The nds from York also show that
these ticket-of-leave men had access to alcohol and patent
medicines. The convicts were operating as part of a wider
commercial sphere, says Winter. They clearly had enough
money to buy these things. The artifacts mark the beginning
of a real economy for the colony, and each convict also came
with money182 pounds per convict from the Crown.
Though theres some disagreement on this point, many think
the colony would simply have collapsed had the convicts not
come. In fact, the colony entered an economic decline after
the end of transportation.
Evidence of convict work is still present in the Swan
Valley, breadbasket to Perth as Parramatta was to Sydney.
The river made a proper farm-to-market economy dicult,
so the rst major convict projects were bridges and roads
that provided farmers access to mills, and then bridges to
open up the market town at Guildford. The original footings of one of the bridges, at Upper Swan, are still visible,
says Shane Burke, an archaeologist at the University of
Notre Dame in Fremantle. Burke grew up in the area and is
descended from both the Spice family, among the rst free
settlers, and the third convict to step o the Scindian, one
William Branson.
The traditional view among the free settlers and their
descendants has been that the convicts didnt actually do
much. This is patently rubbish, says Winter. Reports from
1870 state that 17 major bridges were built by convicts

between 1860 and 1870, along with an estimated 1,100 miles
of roads. Also, the convict depots they built were reused for
decades as much-needed administrative spaces, including
courthouses and schools, and convict labor established the
primary industries of the area, mining and hardwood timber.
But evidence of the system hid itself over time, as reformed
convicts and their descendants turned away from the past.
The convict history is more recent in Western Australia, but
its also been so deeply buried as to be completely unknown
by Perths booming cosmopolitan population. However,
according to the University of Sydneys Gibbs, There can
be no doubt that by 1869 the convicts had transformed the
landscape of Western Australia.
hough there is a long, global history of exiling

undesirables to far-ung locales, Australia is unique.
Nowhere else was a remote prison outpost intended
to be self-sustaining. Nowhere else was convictism so intimately tied with the colonial project. And nowhere else is convictism so central to a nations founding narrative.This was a
huge, amazing social experiment, says Grace Karskens.
Historical archaeology is in a position to help restore
convictism to its central place in Australian history. However,
integrating the archaeology of the convict systems around
the country to provide a coherent, comprehensive picture is
dicult. There are too few experts and too many sites, and
most digs are conducted before development, so ndings
sometimes arent widely published, distributed, or analyzed.
It just doesnt get the attention it should, says Gibbs.
People dont quite know how to put it in context.
According to a number of writers, for the last century,
more or less, Australia has been concerned with nding a
national identity. The convict period and the indignities
visited upon Aborigines are uncomfortable realities upon
which the nation is built. Studying the undocumented material culture of the period oers a
Sean Winter (seated, right) from the University of Western Australia,
process by which to understand the historical
supervises the excavation of the convict depot at York in Western
forces, such as the changing penal philosophy,
Australia. Convicts resided at such depots while they waited for work from
the colony or local landowners. Their labor was the primary purpose they
and the lives of the people, convict and free,
were brought to the region.
white and black, who shaped it.
From the outlaw pride of New South Wales
to the macabre fascination with Tasmania
to the lingering denial in Western Australia,
convicts are being adopted as part of Australian identity after a period of willful amnesia.
According to Casella, every convict-built
structure, every convict artifact, every prison
that eventually housed Aborigines, is the
physical embodiment of what it means to be
Australian. The convict past, she writes, has
evolved from cringing embarrassment to a
powerful source of postcolonial pride.
Samir S. Patel is deputy editor
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ARCHAEOLOGY May/June 2011
LETTER FROM PITTSBURGH
The Steel City Recycles Its Past

Artifacts of nineteenth-century daily life nd new homes
in the twenty-rst century
by Margaret Shakespeare
he wide-angle view from

Mount Washington, most
prominent among the
neighborhood hills of Pittsburgh,
reveals a lot of details about this
city and its proud past and bright
future. So does the close-up view
from PNC Park, if you overlook the
recent fortunes of its primary tenant,
the Pirates, a perennial cellar-dweller
of Major League Baseballs National
League. I watch Pirates right elder
Matt Diaz lean back in the batters
box, smartly smack a single, and
scurry to rst base. I took dirt from
that side of the ineldhauled it
in big buckets on my shoulders,
recalls Curtis Biondich, a lifelong
Pittsburgher who has accompanied
me to the game. The outeld grass
was already in, he continues, and
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they were nearly ready to open.

When construction on PNC
Park began in the late 1990s, local
archaeological rm Christine Davis
Consultants, of which Biondich is
the principal investigator, conducted
an investigation of the site. Much of
what Biondich, Davis herself, and
their team found, working as quickly
as they could over seven deep-winter
weeks, now sits on permanent exhibit at PNC Park. Signicant artifacts
relating primarily to nineteenth-century city life and events on the banks
of the Allegheny River tell long-forgotten stories and conrm local lore.
The ineld dirt that Biondich dug
up sat atop 15 layers of earththe
earliest being remnants from prehistoric wetlands. The water table
is much higher here now, so we can-
not excavate a lot of stu, explains

Davis. What they could get to,
however, combined with more recent
excavations at two other nearby
sites, injects long-buried information
into Pittsburghs historical narrative.
Exhibiting the objects in a baseball
stadium is nontraditional, for sure,
but preservationists, planners, and
developers agree with Davis belief
that showing history in a dierent
way helps while we are changing our
environment today.
n 1907 Pittsburgh became the

eighth largest city in the U.S.
when it absorbed Allegheny
City, now known as the North
Side neighborhood. Seventy-ve
years prior to the merger, in 1832,
oodwaters reached the second oor
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of the nest house on the highest

point on the Allegheny River. The
home was owned by General William J. Robinson, Allegheny Citys
rst mayor. Outbuildings collapsed,
dumping household goods into what
was then the backyard of his estate
(now just inside PNC Parks lefteld entrance). More than 160 years
later, Davis and Biondich would
nd many of Robinsons possessions
under an oak door with iron and
leather hinges buried whole below
15 feet of earth. The door was about
ve feet tall, two and a half feet wide,
and an inch thick. It was painted
blue and might have been a kitchen
door. We had to slowly excavate
that doorthere were other artifacts around it, Biondich says, adding that, because it had not been
exposed to air for so long, they had
to conserve it immediately. Until he
could fashion a makeshift tank from
plywood to immerse it in a polyethylene glycol solution, Biondich kept
the door damp by spraying it with a
mixture of water and alcohol, and he
checked it every few days for mold.
General Robinson left his mark
on Pittsburgh by naming the socalled Mexican War Streets, which
are now part of a historic district
within the North Side. Streets in
the area bear the names of the wars
generals, such as future U.S. President Zachary Taylor and soon-to-be
Confederate General Stonewall
Jackson, and of its battles, such as
Monterey and Palo Alto. Beneath
the door, Davis team found plenty
of evidence that Robinson had actually cultivated his fascination with
Mexican and Spanish culture over a
lifetime. We found a Staordshire
plate, part of a set of 21, that told
the whole story of Don Quixote,
copied from paintings, she says.
Other pieces in the collection of
blue-on-white English porcelain also
depicted Spanish-themed scenes,
such as a landscape of Andalusia in
southern Spain. Id never found an
entire collection in blueor all in
any one color, she says, adding that
54
ings, which date to 1815, hang in

the PNC Park exhibit alongside
the kitchenware and tableware the
couple once used.
Yeagers, Pittsburghs first department

store, sold hand-painted Kestner porcelain
dolls from Germany, among other childrens
toys, to the citys emerging middle class.
the Robinsons owned pieces of

Chinese Canton porcelain that also
t the motif.
Finding the preserved backyard of a famous individual may be
unprecedented in Pittsburgh archaeology, Davis remarks. After her
excavations, she tracked down Lela
Burgwin, the widow of one of Robinsons descendants. I did all this
digging and learned so much about
Robinson and his wife, Mary Parker
Robinson, Davis recalls. And from
under her bed, Lela pulled out their
portraits. Copies of those paint-
ittsburgh had long forgotten or ignored much of the

evidence of its own quotidian history and day-to-day middle
class domesticity, literally burying
and paving it over. The rapid growth
of iron and steel manufacturing
and dozens of attendant industries
and businesses made it, by the late
1800s, the center of the industrial
world. Pittsburgh became what
English writer Anthony Trollope
described as without exception...
the blackest place I ever saw. Railroad tracks lined every waterfront.
People were sent in the other direction, scampering up the citys hills to
make their homes, neighborhood by
isolated neighborhood. Rivers edge
was the most palpable dump site for
a lot of the citys history, says Rob
Stephany, executive director of the
Urban Redevelopment Authority of
Pittsburgh, which has a mission to
undo the present-day and persistent
undervaluation of riverfronts and to
reconnect the citys neighborhoods
with its famous three rivers. (The
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
combine in downtown Pittsburgh to
form the Ohio.) At the conuence
of the waterways, even footprints
of early forts built in the 1750s,
before the American Revolution
Fort Duquesne, which was later
destroyed and replaced by nearby
Fort Pittwere hidden for many
decades, overwhelmed by a vast
army of factories and trains, belching
and blasting re and smoke nonstop. Hell with the lid taken o, as
James Parton famously called it in an
1868 issue of The Atlantic Monthly,
an image that stuck and historically
overshadowed nearly all else.
Davis did her rst urban excavation in 1982 at PPG Place, a complex of six reective-glass-facade
buildings topped with spires, adjacent to Market Square just east of
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where the two forts once sat. She

gured she would turn up evidence
of the contributions of hardworking
innovative industrialists such as Carnegie, Frick, Westinghouse, or Mellon, who made some of the worlds
greatest fortunes in Pittsburgh.
(Their largesse still benets the
city and the world through libraries, art museums, parks, schools,
endowments, and more.) Recovered artifacts, she thought, might
also illustrate the great inux of
immigrants from Germany, Ireland,
Italy, Poland, and elsewhere, mostly
unskilled non-English speakers, who
ve feet arounda big dangerous

hole in the backyardso they would
commonly ll it in with discards.
Discards that more than a hundred
years later tell the story of a lost era
of the city.
onstruction crews in the very

earliest stages of building
Three PNC Plaza eventually came upon ten wells and Davis
crew got the call to investigate. What
she found were over 26,000 artifacts
dating to between 1840 and 1876.
These relics combine to create a
picture of a downtown Pittsburgh
These lithophanes, which once decorated the windows of Knox Botanical and Seed
Store, are now on permanent display in the lobby of the Fairmont Pittsburgh.
crowded in by the thousands to do

the lthy, demanding physical labor
and formed a large lower middle
class. Their legacy lives on in place
names (Polish Hill), in foods (pierogis, sh suppers on Fridays, Primanti
sandwiches), and especially in the
way that families here stay close and
often reside in the same neighborhoods for generations.
The PPG dig, however, oered
numerous surprises. Davis discovered evidence that as the expanding
population ed a dirty, crowded
downtown, they left behind the
trappings of middle-class families.
Davis came upon these artifacts
tons of yellow ceramics, for
examplein deep wells. Some of
these wells, which would have been
for household water or privies, were
40 feet below our street surface, she
explains. A well could be three to
56
much dierent from what exists now

at the corner of Fifth Avenue and
Market Street. Fancy tortoiseshell
combs, ladies shoes, hand-painted
porcelain Kestner dolls (imported
from Germany for local children),
and caches of whiskey and wine
bottles remain at the site of Yeagers,
Pittsburghs rst department store.
In another well, china with exotic
scenes and American Fancy dishes
with bright naturalist designs tell the
story of Ferdinand Starks German
boarding house, which lodged young
immigrant engineers, a coppersmith,
and a printer.
Much of the long-buried nineteenth-century domestic goods now
reside in the Fairmont Pittsburgh,
an art-meets-industrystyled hotel
on the corner of Fifth and Market.
The decision to incorporate them
into the building came out of a
15-minute meeting that Davis had

scheduled with PNC CEO and
Chairman James Rohr. But the
show-and-tell session stretched on
for more than an hour. When I lit
up the lithophanes [thin, translucent
porcelain panes that appear threedimensional when backlit, which
had been window decorations in
Knox Botanical and Seed Store], he
was sure this was history that should
be shared. Fairmont Pittsburgh
General Manager Len Czarnecki
decided to dedicate each of the
hotels 10 guest room oors to one
of the 10 wells. All the suites have
artifacts on display and are named
for the nineteenth-century businesses to which they belonged.
Taken together, the content of
the wells tells the stories of the daily
commerce of a rising middle class
that wanted to possess and consume
ne things. But there is also strong
evidence of varying aesthetic preferences. Take the instance of an Irish
boarding house, located on the same
block as a German boarding house.
Finds associated with the German
lodgers included ceramics, pipes, and
other household artifacts manufactured in Germany, whereas the well
near the Irish inn contained mostly
American-made items. Germans
tended to bring stu with them,
Davis concludes. And the Irish tended to buy stu in America.
Industrialization penetrated every
street corner in the city, every household. After the Civil War, as shop
buildings made way for progress,
General Robinson from Allegheny
City bought the German boarding
house and tore it down in order to
build oces for his Ohio and Pittsburgh Railroad.
ith business booming

and population swelling
toward the end of the
1800s, Pittsburgh had a housing
crisis. People would live anywhere,
says Davis, as we stop in to see a
small exhibit at the Carnegie Science
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Center. She points out a copy of a
postcard with a picture of the North
Side neighborhood. In it, Monument Hill rises behind behemoth
smoke-belching factories with a
tattered navy of small rivercraft
makeshift houseboatstied up all
along the Allegheny. There was a
preconceived notion that houses in
the midst of all this, especially next
to a tar factory, would have been a
slum, she says.
Twenty-rst-century progress
construction of Allegheny Station
for the North Shore Connector (an
extension of the light rail system
by the Port Authority of Allegheny
County) set to open in 2012led
Davis team to investigate the site.
And, once again, the archaeologists
uncovered an informative trove
of upper-middle-class lifestyle
possessions from the wells, privies,
and large backyards (containing
both gardens and buried cache
boxes) of ve row houses that stood
until 1932.
From nearly 18,000 artifacts,
more than 45,000 ethnobotanical
specimens (seeds, nuts, and other
plant remains), and deep dives into
city directories and census records,
Davis was able to identify
350 individuals who lived
in these houses over a
65-year period. The great
Yaegers also sold

Pittsburghs ladies
ornate, tortoiseshell
combs (above), as well as
shoes and wine.
60
nd at this particular site, however,

was toys. Evidence of children is
very dicult to nd in an archaeological context, Davis says. After all,
they dont really own things such as
pots or jewelry. Here, though, is a
collection thats remarkable both for
its unprecedented size and for what
it tells us about the nances of the
childrens parents. Tiny Germanmade bubble pipes, a miniature porcelain tea set for a dollhouse, a childs
plate with a raised alphabet rim to
teach reading, a small mug with a
fairytale scene, Davis says, cataloging the nds. You wouldnt have
bought these things if you were living paycheck to paycheck. In addition to the toys, the archaeologists
found severely worn scrub brushes,
toothbrushes, childrens lice combs,
and many, many medicine bottles. In
the very crucible of this lthiest of
cities, parents had an obvious concern with hygiene and spared little
expense to make sure their children
were clean and healthy.
Other items recovered from the
town houses speak to their residents
being decidedly middle class. We
have a kerosene table lampan
expensive pieceand decorative
ceramics with no
n wear,
indicating th
they just sat
cupb
in a cupboard,
says
Davis. For
instance,
a Brow
Brown Betty tea
pot is what a lady
wou
would have held
up to show o
her contrasting
unb
unblemished
w
white hands.
W
Wear patte
terns on
th
these pieces
tell Davis that
these hou
houses, unlike
those thrown up quickly
qui
near
mills for low-rung w
workers, had
one particular all-im
all-important
middle-class status symbol: a
parlor. From the evidence
ev
she
assembled, Davis was
w even
able to make an educ
educated guess
Archaeologists found much evidence of

middle-class life, such as these kerosene
lamps, along with porcelain tableware
and a dollhouse tea set.
about the profession of one of the

row house dwellers. Her team found
several needles as well as dozens of
miniature German-made porcelain
doll arms, legs, and heads that would
have been sewn to a fabric torso. I
wondered if this wasnt a doll-makers shop, she explains. The woman
was a widow, and this would have
been one of the few ways she could
have made money.
opular among the local lore

of the Steel City is the legend
of Pittsburghs fourth, underground river. I even hear about the
supposed lost waterway from a bus
driver who turns into an impromptu
tour guide as he drives his route
to Homestead, a historic steel mill
site that today is the museum and
headquarters of Rivers of Steel, a
National Heritage area. Turns out
the river is not simply apocryphal.
The Pennsylvania Canal, completed
in 1832, greatly eased transport
between the western and eastern
sides of the state until it was abandoned and lled in when railroads
superseded it.
Davis was on the lookout for the
canal during the initial survey of
the PNC Park site. She searched
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ndings with hugely expensive
camera work from another
consultant to pinpoint four
underwater locksused to raise
and lower shipping vessels as
they travel over a waterway with
dierent levels. At the PNC Park
ceremonial groundbreaking the rst
shovel came right down on Canal
Lock No. 1, she recalls. That was
like nding the Holy Grail, says
August Carlino, president and
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fourth river to be true, but the
various technological surveys
showed the canal wasnt worth
exploring. All the lock doors had
been removed, and the canal had
been used as a sewer, so what was
left was not anything that we could
excavate, Davis explains. Alas,
all the canal remnants themselves
had to be lled in with concrete
and reburied.
That April night at the ballgame,
I think about that lock being
directly under home plate, each
of the six times a Milwaukee
Brewer scores. The present-day
Pirates may be hapless, but their
historyincluding the teams
participation in the rst modern
World Series in 1903, which was
played at Exposition Stadium a
mere few hundred yards awayis
extraordinary. Beyond the eld
lies a cityonce decidedly part
of the Rust Beltnow dotted
with green-certied buildings.
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Stephany. Those hills that kept
neighborhoods separated also kept
them intact. He adds that the city
has always had a diverse economy
and that is borne out by the
archaeological record. Pittsburgh,
he adds, has a great history. And as
the city moves on, it wont lose the
connection to its rich past.
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AIA Gala Celebrates Underwater Archaeology and Irish Culture
n April , , more than

300 friends and supporters of
the AIA gathered at Capitale
in New York City for the
Institutes Spring Gala to honor
archaeologist George Bass and to celebrate the archaeological heritage of
Ireland.
Bass received the Bandelier Award
for Public Service to Archaeology
for his role in founding the eld of
underwater archaeology, and for the
tremendous contributions he has
made to the discipline through his
research, publications, lectures, and
media appearances. In addition to this
outstanding legacy, Bass has ensured
the future of underwater archaeology
by establishing the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University and in Bodrum, Turkey.
The Gala was cosponsored by
Culture Ireland and Tourism Ireland,
and the events decorative theme
and distinctive menu featured the
countrys rich archaeological heritage
and traditions. Irish Cultural Ambassador and renowned actor Gabriel
Byrne, who began his career as an
archaeologist, served as the Master
of Ceremonies for the evening. A
highlight of Byrnes presentation was
his rendition of what is thought to be
the rst poem ever written in Ireland,
the Song of Amergin, which dates
from the tenth century a.d. Byrnes
moving reading of the poem, rst
in Gaelic, and then in English, was
followed by an address from Patrick
Wallace, archaeologist and director
of the National Museum of Ireland.
Wallaces presentation highlighted
many of Irelands great archaeological
treasures and emphasized the incredible preservation of these materials.
This years gala was hosted at Capitale

(left), a majestic space designed by Stanford
White. Renowned actor Gabriel Byrne (above)
served as Master of Ceremonies. Cocktails
and hor doeuvres (below) were followed by a
sumptuous Irish banquet.
The program was capped o by a

wonderful meal featuring traditional
Irish ingredients prepared by worldrenowned chef and native Dubliner,
Cathal Armstrong.
Underlying the celebratory spirit
of the evening was the important
goal of raising the funds that allow
the AIA to advance its mission and
to continue its various programs and
initiatives. The Gala is the Institutes
largest fundraising event. Gross proceeds from this years event totaled
nearly $435,000. This total included
money raised specically for the Site
Preservation Program and to provide
preservation funds directly to threat-
ened archaeological sites in Ireland.

The success of the event was due in
large part to the eorts of the Galas
co-chairs, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
and Julie Herzig Desnick. The gathering included honored guests such as
the Consuls General of Ireland, Peru,
and Turkey; the former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy
Smith; Joe Byrne of Tourism Ireland;
and Eugene Downes of Culture Ireland.
The 2011 Gala also saw the return
of the AIA to Capitale, the venue of
the Institutes rst gala in 2009. It
was, by all accounts, a wonderful and
truly enjoyable evening.
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Excavate, Educate, Advocate
Dispatches from the AIA
AIA Awards Grant to Protect Earliest Human Remains in the Americas
he archaeological research
being conducted in the Yucatn
Peninsula has contributed
greatly to our knowledge of the
Maya groups that lived in the region.
But the area is also becoming
increasingly important to our
understanding of early human
occupation in the Americas.
Hoyo Negro, a site featured in the
May/June 2011 issue of Archaeology, and believed to be the nal resting place of some of the oldest human
remains discovered in the Americas,
was recently awarded an AIA Site
Preservation Grant. The award will
be used to protect the site through
the construction of a secured entrance
gate, fencing, and signage, and will
improve access for researchers by
building a new road, stairway, and
dive platform. These protective mea-
Divers explore the vast underwater caverns at Hoyo Negro.
sures will pave the way for the rstever comprehensive and coordinated
study of a submerged Pleistocene
archaeological deposit (dating from

between 2.5 million and 12,000 years
ago) on the Yucatn Peninsula.
National Archaeology
Day Announced
n October , the AIA will

organize and host National Archaeology Daya celebration of archaeology, including the thrill of discovery
and the wonders of the past. On that
day (and throughout the month), the
AIA and our 108 local societies will
present archaeological programs for
people of all ages and interests. For
those who cannot personally attend
one of our programs, we are organiz-
AIA and Google Unveil Google Earth Map

of Irish Sites at the Gala
he AIA unveiled its new Archaeological Heritage Map of Ireland

on Google Earth. The map, created by the AIA in collaboration with
Google Earth, highlights over 100 Irish heritage sites and is supplemented with a short movie that allows the viewer to y over 22 of the
sites. The map and the movie can be viewed at the AIA website (www.
archaeological.org). A special thanks must go to our partners at Google
Earth for making this possible!
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ing virtual participation opportunities

as well. These events will help raise
public awareness of our global archaeological heritage, and will serve to
remind us all of the fragility of these
irreplaceable resources.
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ARTIFACT
he faddan more psalter oers a tantalizing glimpse of the

extraordinary eorts that early Christians in Ireland invested in illustrating
their religious manuscripts. This manuscript was most likely handcrafted in
a monastery where Irish monks and missionaries combined copies of
Biblical text with both traditional and nontraditional iconography.
In very poor condition when rst discovered in an Irish bog (bogs were often used
to hide valuables during Viking raids), the tanned leather volume was immediately
taken away and stored at 39 degrees Fahrenheit for preservation. The condition of the
manuscripts pages, which are made of vellum (cured calfskin),
varies from full legibility to complete loss.
WHAT IS IT?
Early Christian
illustrated manuscript
DATE
a.d. 700800
MATERIAL
Tanned leather
and vellum
DISCOVERED
July 2006, bog in

County Tipperary,
Ireland
SIZE
Folio size
of approximately
12 x 10 inches
CURRENTLY LOCATED
National Museum
of Ireland, Dublin
According to Eamonn Kelly,

director of antiquities at the National Museum of
Ireland, the fact that theres any vellum that survived is unprecedented,
unprecedented
i the
h wet conditions
di i off the
h bog
b and
d Ireland.
I l d
given
Conservators from the museum and Trinity College Dublin carried out various drying techniques,
degradation analysis, and high-denition lming to reveal elements of the books design. These include the
remains of an illuminated page with elaborate, decorative text and illustrations. The page shown here,
written in Latin, features a style of lettering that suggests it dates back to the eighth century, an estimate
conrmed by radiocarbon dating.
Traces of gold have been found on the outside cover of the Faddan More Psalter, and papyrus was used
in fashioning the inside of the cover. These two materials were also commonly used in Coptic (Egyptian
Christian) Church texts. Kelly notes this similarity doesnt necessarily link the Irish and Egyptian churches.
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