Interpreting evidence of conflict from the Neolithic to the coming of the Romans Interpersonal violence has been a fact of human existence…
In Current Archaeology 339, we reported the discovery of a number of human skeletons on the ominously named ‘Rat Island’ in Gosport,…
A team from the universities of Leicester and Southampton recently re-examined previous Avebury excavations and conducted new surveying of the site (in…
The study of isotopes – chemical signatures preserved in our bones and teeth that shed light on diet and movements during life…
An unusual underground Monitoring Post (UGMP), used during the Cold War, has been revealed during an excavation by Wessex Archaeology near Wokingham.…
Christopher Tripp takes readers on a tour of Thurrock’s past, from the Palaeolithic (tools having been found at Purfleet, for example) to…
When does an object become an artefact? Is an artefact always an artefact? How do artefacts relate to human evolution? How do…
When we think about Victorian childhood, we probably conjure up images of ragged Dickensian street urchins, strict educations, and children seen and…
It is little surprise that geology initially evolved as a British science, for within a set of smallish islands the British Isles…
This is a teaching resource published by Forestry and Land Scotland. Aimed at students of later primary school age (that is, 8-…
Alasdair Whittle’s most recent contribution to this fascinating period in European prehistory argues cogently against the concept of wholesale change at a…