Archaeology of bling

This is sort of sad: National Geographic News' "Top Ten Archaeology" stories of 2009. The top four all involve buried treasure of some kind.

Oh, and one of them involves vampires.

UPDATE (2009-01-05): A reader writes to suggest I tell everybody these are the top ten by views, not by editor choices. I had hoped that would be apparent to those who read the list; that's the main reason I find it sad!

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Tim Time
The year's big paleoanthropology stories
Eating their young
Drilling down career choices
"Just-so stories" driving me crazy

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Archaeology of bling