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Current Archaeology’s October Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home

There are lots of great ways to get involved with history and archaeology over the next few months, including exhibitions, lectures, and conferences exploring a wide range of subjects. If you would prefer to get your heritage fix from the comfort of your sofa, though, there is a variety of resources on offer online, too, from virtual site tours and digital offerings by museums to podcasts, TV shows, and more. Kathryn Krakowka has put together a selection from the options available.

Museum news

Current Archaeology

The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Current Archaeology

Britain has been overcome by Bayeux Tapestry fever (as has CA: see our feature on here and more in Sherds on here) with the famous embroidery returning to British soil for the

Museum·What's on

Exhibitions from around the world – August 2021

Minerva Magazine

August 17, 2021

Due to changing coronavirus measures, the dates listed below may have changed since we went to print, and museums and galleries may close. Check the websites and social-media accounts of the museums for the most up-to-date information and bookings.

Books

A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are

Minerva Magazine

August 16, 2021

Over the last decade, revolutions in the scientific analysis of archaeological material have allowed us to delve deeper into the origins and migrations of modern humans. Through the lens of Johannes Krause,

Books

Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London’s Lost Treasures

Minerva Magazine

August 14, 2021

In the 19th century, mudlarks were people (mainly children) who would scour the muddy banks of the Thames for items like coal and metal that they could sell on. Nowadays, mudlarks set

Museum·Travel

Who beheaded the emperors of Chiragan?

Andrew Selkirk

August 4, 2021

One of the finest collections of Roman emperors is to be found hidden away in the Musée Saint-Raymond, the archaeological museum of Toulouse, in south-western France. But where did they come from, and how did such a magnificent collection of Roman emperors come to lose their heads?

Books

Bar Locks and Early Church Security in the British Isles

Current Archaeology

August 4, 2021

Have you ever wondered why there is often a big hole in the wall just inside a medieval church doorway? This book is primarily a study of the bar locks they were

Books

Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe: an archaeological perspective

Current Archaeology

August 3, 2021

This volume largely stems from the 2018 European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) annual meeting in Barcelona. The editors have obviously taken great care in compiling a cohesive and comprehensive collection of papers

Museum·What's on

Heritage from home: August 2021

Current Archaeology

August 2, 2021

Many heritage sites and museums in the UK, Ireland, and other countries around the world have now reopened their doors to visitors, but there are still plenty of ways to get involved in history and heritage from home this summer as well. Current World Archaeology’s Amy Brunskill has put together a variety of options below, from video tours of recent exhibitions to online webinars, social media trends, and craft activities, as well as a round-up of some of the places that are open again.

Books

Hoards from Wiltshire

Current Archaeology

August 2, 2021

The landscape of Wiltshire is full of indications of the county’s rich history, but perhaps some of the most compelling information about the area’s past comes from the hoards buried beneath its

Books

Life, Death, and Rubbish Disposal in Roman Norton, North Yorkshire

Current Archaeology

August 1, 2021

This report describes the results of excavations conducted in 2015-2016 on the Brooklyn Hall site, south of the River Derwent, opposite the fort at Malton, and immediately west of the main road

Books

Visions of the Roman North: art and identity in northern Roman Britain

Current Archaeology

July 31, 2021

This remarkable and important study of the art and culture of northern Roman Britain has been published almost two decades after my own – The Heirs of King Verica (Tempus, 2002; 2nd

Books

The Wandering Herd: the medieval cattle economy of south-east England c.450-1450

Current Archaeology

July 30, 2021

‘The late medieval sheep of Britain have so engaged the attention of the agrarian historians that other aspects of stock husbandry appear to have been neglected. Our knowledge of the cattle of

Feature·Museum·What's on

Nero: monster or maligned?

World Archaeology

July 22, 2021

It would be fair to say that Nero’s reputation survives him. But could it be that this notorious imperial bad boy has been unfairly condemned by history? While the charge sheet levelled against him by the ancient historians is truly horrifying, archaeology paints a more nuanced picture, as Thorsten Opper told Current World Archaeology’s Matthew Symonds.

Books

The Maltese Archipelago at the Dawn of History

World Archaeology

July 22, 2021

This, the third volume to tackle the legacy data from Malta (Tanasi et al. 2011; 2015), effectively lays the groundwork from which to launch renewed archaeological investigations. Its reinterpretation of past excavations

Books

Growing up in the Ice Age

World Archaeology

July 22, 2021

Growing Up in the Ice Age represents both the first book-length work on the lives of children throughout the Plio-Pleistocene, and a superlative example of how the study of children can be

Books

Pre and Protohistoric Stone Architectures: comparisons of the social and technical contexts associated to their building

World Archaeology

July 21, 2021

Generically, monuments are organised using four recognised architectural elements: the mound, the entrance or façade, the passage, and the chamber. I suppose a fifth element could be landscape. These clear building traits

Museum·What's on

Epic Iran

World Archaeology

July 21, 2021

Current World Archaeology’s Amy Brunskill visits a new exhibition at the V&A presenting 5,000 years of art and design in Iran.

Ideas·Museum

Fashioning the Viking Age

World Archaeology

July 21, 2021

The designs of these outfits are based on two high-status graves, which contained some of the best-preserved Viking Age textiles in Denmark: a male burial from Bjerringhøj, dated to AD 970-971, and a female grave from Hvilehøj, dated to the late AD 900s.

Books

A History of World Egyptology

World Archaeology

July 21, 2021

The Rosetta Stone that proved key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, discovered by a French military engineer in 1799 (now in the British Museum), and the gold mask of Tutankhamun, discovered

Places·Travel

The Lost City of Norchia

Richard Hodges

July 21, 2021

Upper Palaeolithic flints, Eneolithic tombs, and remains of a Bronze Age semicircular hut, as well as a tomb with a Villanovan shield, show that the place evolved over time, before being bafflingly abandoned in the earlier Iron Age.

Books

Aftermath: life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

Military History

July 14, 2021

The defeated German soldiers who returned from the Second World War were so broken by the conflict that a specific term for them emerged. Heimkehrer were, according to Harald Jähner, battered survivors

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