The elusive Arthur

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Two discoveries in the summer of 1998 have provided links to the life and times of Arthur, King of the Britons. An inscription on a roofing slate at Tintagel in Cornwall is the name "Artognov," which some scholars suggest may be Arthur's signature. A hillfort near Bath is a rectangular platform which may have been one of Arthur's bases of operations. These discoveries wait further confirmation.

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A doomed people: the collapse of the Hohokam at Pueblo Grande

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The Hohokam lived in what is now Arizona from approximately 900-1350. They created over 500 miles of canals to irrigate crops, and had many large settlements. Research on over 630 skeletons of the Hohokam show many suffered from chronic malnutrition and tooth decay, possibly due to overpopulation, diseases or natural disasters. The Hohokam sharply declined around 1450 through unknown causes.

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Myth of the hunter-gatherer: the lives of ancient foragers were not always "nasty, brutish, and short"

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Archaeological discoveries made in the 1980s and 1990s have challenged the long-held belief that pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies lacked the social complexity of agricultural societies. Some hunter-gathering societies built large permanent settlements, had social classes, made war, and had strong artistic and technological traditions.

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