One of the joys of the Current Archaeology archive is its ‘tales of the unexpected’. After last month’s column on early medieval…
The foundations of the medieval Dominican friary of Stirling – and evidence that the lives of its occupants were far from frugal…
An ongoing project by University College Cork (UCC) is revealing the living conditions of convicts imprisoned on Spike Island – a small…
In the last decade or so we have experienced a revolution in archaeological science, and one of the most exciting aspects of…
One of Yorkshire’s earliest high-status Roman settlements may have been discovered. While many Roman 3rd- and 4th-century sites have been found in…
This enjoyable little book takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of the buried heritage of one of Britain’s iconic historic cities.…
Ragstone was quarried from the upper Medway valley in Kent on a vast scale during the Roman period: the walls of Roman…
In this concise and readable book, Shennan brings together ancient whole-genome DNA data with excavated evidence to produce a detailed analysis of…
The Science of Roman History is an innovative book, bringing together many different areas of archaeological science to comment on the Roman…
This fascinating volume focuses on a Scottish settlement site that has its origins in the Late Upper Palaeolithic (LUP), inhabited at a…
What did the Romans do for us? Aside from sanitation, roads, and many other technological and engineering innovations that were introduced to…