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Backdirt: Annual Review, which began as a newsletter in 1973, is the magazine of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology that highlights the recent news, research and activities of the Cotsen Institute. The Cotsen Institute Press publishes the annual magazine each spring.

Current Issue:

	2011 Issue Record-Breaking Discoveries in Armenia Lloyd Cotsen's Gift to the People of China Reflections on the Life of Francois Bordes Metallurgy and Ecological Change in the Ancient Near East The New Archaeological Travel Program of the Cotsen Institute And more!
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Past Issues:

	2010 Issue The Sustainable Preservation Initiative Live and Times of H.B. Nicholson Risk and Agriculture in Ancient Anatolia Field School student reflections and more!
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	2009 A Monumental Task on Easter Island Archaeology of the Confucian Landscape Exploring Opportunities in South America Empires of Diversity in Ancient Iran Metal and Landscape in Ancient Anatolia And more!
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	2008 Returning to a Great Excavation of the Past: A New Joint Project in Armenia The Mundane Extremes of Tarapaca: Northern Chile, 2007 Season Cotsen Staff Chile Trip Investigating a Forgotten Port: The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project Life and Death at Domuztepe in the Sixth Millenium BC And much more
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	2007 Extreme Archaeology: Research in the Tarapaca Valley, Northern Chile Between Heaven and Hell in Ancient Urkesh A Cultural Heritage Center in the Desert Celebrating 40 Years of Contributions and Activities And much more
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Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend

Christopher Donnan's Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend, explores one of the most intriguing oral histories passed down among ancient Peruvians: the legend of Naymlap, the founder of a dynasty that ruled the Lambayeque Valley of northern Peru centuries before European contact. Naymlap is said to have built his palace at a place that many now consider to be the archaeological sites of Chotuna and Chornancap. In an effort to test the validity of the Naymlap legend, Donnan directed extensive archaeological excavations at Chotuna and Chornancap--completing plans of the monumental architecture, mapping and excavating most of the major structures, and developing a chronology for the sites. This book presents the results of these excavations and demonstrates the extent to which the archaeological evidence correlates with the sequence of events described in the Naymlap legend.

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