landscape conservation

RIGHT A new project by students at the University of Granada aims to learn more about the acequias of Las Alpujarras, in the Sierra Nevada.

World Archaeology
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Ancient aquifers and a sovereign spirit

The death of Prince Philip was marked on Tanna with traditional rites and tribute ceremonies: the consensus among members of the sect is that the Duke’s spirit has returned to its island home...

Above On the road to a ‘national disgrace’? This photograph shows the approach to Stonehenge along the A303 (with the A344 to the right) in about 1930. By the second half of the 20th century, almost all visitors arrived by road from the east.

Current Archaeology
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Welcome to the new Stonehenge: making a Neolithic circle fit for purpose

In 1993, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee described the setting and presentation of Stonehenge as ‘a national disgrace’. Two decades later, we finally have a remedy – a spanking new visitor centre to cater for travellers’ bodily needs and to prepare them for an encounter with the monument. What is more, the road that once severed Stonehenge from the Avenue has gone, restoring the link between the monument and its processional way. Chris Catling went there, gazed in awe, and wants to go back again very soon.