Uncovering the hidden human history of a celebrated Scottish island A small team of archaeologists has been undertaking research into the island…
Covering the end of Time Team feels like writing an obituary. The programme has been there for much of my personal journey…
New finds at Beechwood Farm, Inverness may help to reveal the ancient techniques of prehistoric Ironworkers, and provide new perspectives on metalworking…
This edible portrait of Mortimer Wheeler was baked by Richard Ward, an archaeologist working on one of the Walbrook sites currently under…
In 1995 the discovery of part of a Royal Navy warship hidden in the Wheelwrights Shop at The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, sparked…
When Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in November 1922, the Western world was seized by an epidemic of Egyptomania. What is less…
It’s Guy Fawkes night — 5 November 2012 – and I have been in London for 50 years. I first came to…
It is a common complaint today that our society has become too unequal. To an archaeologist, of course, the complaint is nonsense.…
What to do when you retire A lot of my friends seem to be retiring at present and for the same…
Lincoln – Mick ‘Lindiana’ Jones retires On October 20th2012, I went up to Lincoln, to the Retirement Party for my…
Now that I am Editor-in-Chief, it means that I am at least semi-retired from Current Archaeology and I am therefore able to…