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

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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

Books

Managing Archaeology in Dynamic Urban Centres

Current Archaeology

May 4, 2021

This new publication, which draws on discussions at the 2017 European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) conference and the work of the EAA Urban Archaeology Community, explores the complexities of carrying out archaeology

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Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the birth of England

Current Archaeology

May 4, 2021

Assembling an extensive patchwork of evidence, Livingston tries to recreate the ‘facts’ of the Battle of Brunanburh – the major battle between King Æthelstan’s English forces and an alliance of Vikings and

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Contested Heritage: contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain

Current Archaeology

May 3, 2021

Relationships between contemporary Pagan groups and those who work in the fields of archaeology and heritage management have been strained for many years due to disagreements over ancient sites and human remains.

What's on

Heritage from home: May

Current Archaeology

May 3, 2021

With restrictions lifting around the UK and outdoor sites reopening, we hope it won’t be long until we can visit museums and indoor heritage sites again. For now, Amy Brunskill has put together another selection of ways to get involved in history, heritage, and archaeology at home, from virtual tours of sites around the world to podcasts and social media trends, craft activities, TV shows, and more.

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River Kings: a new history of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

Current Archaeology

May 2, 2021

It all began with a bead: a small piece of carnelian recovered during the excavation of a Viking Great Army mass grave at Repton in 1982. Thirty-five years later, it fascinated Cat

Books

Thames Mudlarking: searching for London’s lost treasures

Current Archaeology

May 1, 2021

Searching the beaches of the River Thames for artefacts has grown enormously in popularity over the last decade or so, with hundreds of enthusiasts now engaged in this activity and a thriving

Feature·TV & Film

Time Team returns: how an archaeological institution rose to dig again

Current Archaeology

April 27, 2021

For 20 years, Time Team was an archaeological household name – and, while the show came to an end in 2013, its popularity has soared once again during lockdown. In the last two months alone, over two million people in more than 40 countries have tuned into the Time Team Classics YouTube channel. Now the show is set to return with a pair of new digs to explore the secrets beneath our feet, as Felix Rowe reports.

Travel

Esfahan, Iran

April 26, 2021

Esfahan is little known in the West, but it has some of the world’s great architecture – not only mosques, but also its palaces, its gardens, and last but not least, its fine bridges.

Feature·Museum·What's on

Thomas Becket: Canterbury Tales

Minerva Magazine

April 14, 2021

In 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was killed in his cathedral by knights linked to his former friend King Henry II. But how did Becket become a revered saint and protector of the king?

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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting

Minerva Magazine

April 12, 2021

When, in 1908, Julius von Schlosser published Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance (originally Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance), he had been working for more than 15 years in

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The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500

Minerva Magazine

April 11, 2021

The cross is ubiquitous in medieval Christian iconography. As it was on the cross that Jesus died, bringing believers salvation, it is a critical component of the religion. But, despite the ubiquity

Books

Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing

Minerva Magazine

April 10, 2021

A leading handbook of scripts and writing that runs to almost a thousand pages, The World’s Writing Systems (1996), edited by Peter Daniels and William Bright, contains scarcely any reference to the

Museum

The Mary Rose Museum

Current Archaeology

April 7, 2021

The Mary Rose museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard was reopened 471 years to the day since the sinking of Henry VIII’s flagship – for the first time giving the public a clear view of her hull

Culture·What's on

Heritage from home: April

Current Archaeology

March 28, 2021

With the arrival of spring and the promise of lockdown restrictions lifting over the next few months, we are looking forward to visits to museums and heritage sites in the not-too-distant future. For now, though, there are still plenty of things to keep you busy at home, whether you are looking for online exhibitions, craft ideas, or even some of the talks from Current Archaeology’s annual conference! Amy Brunskill has put together another selection of the latest options.

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New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England

Current Archaeology

March 28, 2021

The Neolithic is that pivotal point in prehistory where community changes, from dependence on hunting, fishing, gathering strategies based on seasonal availability to seasonal harvesting, animal husbandry, food procurement, and storage. Until

Books

Roman Britain’s Missing Legion: What Really Happened to IX Hispana?

Current Archaeology

March 28, 2021

Famously (or infamously), the Roman Ninth Legion is believed to have disappeared around the end of the 1st century AD, a view made popular by Rosemary Sutcliff in her fictionalised account of

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Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries: kinship, community, and identity

Current Archaeology

March 28, 2021

It has been more than two decades since Sam Lucy’s seminal book The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death, and in the intervening years new cemeteries, methodologies, and mortuary archaeology theory have advanced to

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Making Deep History: zeal, perseverance, and the time revolution of 1859

Current Archaeology

March 28, 2021

A few days ago I saw a notice that said ‘BeGambleAware’. It warned of the dangers of addiction, but it could have referred to the author of this book. Readers of Current

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Darkness Visible: the Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts

Current Archaeology

March 28, 2021

Caves can be portals to otherworlds, and Covesea Cave on Scotland’s Moray Firth is no exception. Armit and Büster’s handsomely produced volume transports us back in time to both the late Bronze

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Faxton: excavations in a deserted Northamptonshire village, 1966-1968

Current Archaeology

March 28, 2021

The film The Dig has shown that public interest can be engaged by a vintage excavation, and this book likewise recounts the results and evokes the mood of three seasons of digging,

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