Rubina Raja and Søren M Sindbæk on the archaeology of waste…
When COVID-19 reached New Zealand, all my plans to continue excavating and attend conferences ground to a halt. So I turned my attention to writing my memoir, Digging Deep: a journey into South-east Asia’s past. Having kept a diary since 1955, I was able to pinpoint to the day various…
It is less than a decade since scientists developed swift and efficient methods of extracting and analysing ancient DNA from human remains (for which Svante Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2022) and yet scarcely a day goes by without some new breakthrough in our…
Nick Spenceley recalls one of the great works of military history.…
Joe Flatman explores over half a century of reports from the past.…
Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.…
Joe Flatman explores over half a century of reports from the past.…
Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.…
Rubina Raja and Søren M Sindbæk on low-density urbanism at ancient sites…
In 1950, Peter Williams-Hunt published a paper in Antiquity entitled ‘Irregular earthworks in eastern Siam: a review’. A former RAF pilot, he had pored over wartime aerial photos taken of the extensive Khorat Plateau in North-east Thailand. He was intrigued by the numerous enigmatic prehistoric sites, at first sight reminiscent…
Buried in lead The excellent Museum of Antiquities in Rouen, Normandy, has mounted a special exhibition called Le Plomb et l’homme (Lead and Man; open until 5 March 2024) devoted to the large number of Gallo-Roman lead coffins and funerary urns in its collection, many of them discovered in the…
Just over 30 years after the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, a young reporter who had never heard a shot fired in anger managed to produce a literary classic that not only captured the intensity and confusion of the bitter fighting, but also explored for the first time the huge…
Joe Flatman explores over half a century of reports from the past.…
Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.…
editor Carly asked me to delve into the archives for a bumper edition of my column, in order to tell the story of archaeology in the UK across the lifespan of the magazine…
Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for Current Archaeology, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world. This is his latest 'Sherds' column.…
Andrew Selkirk, Current Archaeology’s founder and Editor-in-chief, marks the magazine’s latest milestone, and looks to the future.…
had King Charles been in need of distraction or amusement during his Coronation in May 2023, he could have done worse than study all the graffiti carved into the woodwork of the Coronation Chair…
Far into the Middle Ages, glass-workers produced beads using techniques eerily similar to those employed 2,000 years earlier in Amarna.…
I doubted if Daeng would find anything of interest within. An hour later, she was revealing the smallest skeleton I have ever seen.…