In my previous two columns I explored some of the known for their medieval and later histories, and for their towering urban…
This volume describes the results of some 20 years of investigation at a site near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The work revealed a pit…
In this fascinating book, geneticist David Reich reveals the origins of modern populations through the study of DNA. The results of analysis…
Conventional wisdom has it that very little of the English landscape can be traced further back than the Anglo-Saxon period; and while…
In the last 15 years, the Implement Petrology Group – its members colloquially known as the mad-axers – has been reinvigorated and…
his book tells the story of the Harvard Archaeological Mission, which worked in Ireland between 1932 and 1936 to explore the Celtic…
The whereabouts of some of the estimated 1,700 men who died in captivity after the Battle of Dunar was not known until…
In June and July this year, the archaeological organisation CITiZAN (Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network) had two good pieces of news…
An excavation on the edge of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, has uncovered a cluster of intriguing Anglo-Saxon graves, including the rare remains of a…
A previously unknown Neolithic passage tomb has been discovered in County Meath, Ireland, beneath the 18th-century manor house of Dowth Hall. The…
Recent analysis of cremated human remains excavated from Stonehenge has shown that some of the individuals buried at the Neolithic monument may…