Illuminating the past and informing the present with ancient DNA Pioneering research in the Francis Crick Institute’s Ancient Genomics Lab is boosting…
Appreciating the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales On 28 July, UNESCO added the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales to its list of…
Roman finds from the Tees at Piercebridge and beyond Ritual or rubbish – how should we interpret objects that ended their days…
Angevin innovation, or a medieval white elephant? Dover’s massive castle, rising in tiers above the harbour to the crest of the hill…
Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland’s earliest-known…
In mid-April, CA travelled to Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire – our first site visit of 2021! – to catch up with…
This year's Current Archaeology Live! conference ran from 5-7 March, and took place completely online. As we weren't able to facilitate the…
The 1970s were an exciting time for British archaeology, with large-scale open-area excavations in many historic city centres revealing a previously unsuspected…
How do you begin to analyse a corroded mass of almost 70,000 Celtic coins? Neil Mahrer guides us through the painstaking process…
Archaeologists excavating a 15,000-year-old campsite at Les Varines, Jersey, have recovered ten fragments of stone decorated with hundreds of interweaving lines.…
Concluding his two-part exploration of Anglo-Saxon studies in the present day, John Hines considers what the future holds for this field.…