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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JOHN HAWKS is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I was trained as a paleoanthropologist, studying human evolution from an integrative perspective. My research focuses on the processes affecting human genetic evolution across the last 6 million years.
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