TATIANA IVLEVA researches and teaches Roman archaeology – but not in the Mediterranean. How do we study Romans and their lives outside of Rome? What can we learn from the provinces, and from the people[…]
Current Archaeology Award Nominations 2019
Voting has now opened for the 11th annual Current Archaeology Awards, which celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding[…]
Discover a new world: Landscape Beneath the Waves
Why does underwater archaeology matter? Is it relevant to non-specialists, other archaeologists, and even to the interested public? CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES tells us why landscapes beneath the waves can be important to us all. You are[…]
Oxbow Books’ Black Friday Sale
THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE BOOK. (somewhere) It’s time to start making some space on your bookshelves! On Friday 23rd, we’re offering 50% off all full-price books published by Oxbow Books and Windgather Press.[…]
The Mystery of Stonehenge: Aliens, Giants, and Music?
On 26th October 1918, one hundred years ago, Cecil Chubb gave Stonehenge to the nation, ending the private ownership of the monument. To celebrate, we take a walk through some of the weirdest and wildest[…]
Relentlessly Plain: Early Pottery in Western Asia
It might seem that the large quantities of plain pottery found at Neolithic sites can’t tell us all that much. But as OLIVIER NIEUWENHUYSE, editor of ‘Relentlessly Plain: Seventh Millennium Ceramics at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria’ explains,[…]
Faversham in the Making: The Lesser-known History of a Small Market Town
What looks at first glance an unpretentious small market town, probably founded around AD 1200, is at second glance something more special and unusual. This extract from ‘Faversham in the Making’ begins to scratch the[…]
The Times of Their Lives: The Future of Studying the Past
Do authors set out intending to write a benchmark book that may well change the face of their subject area forever, or does it simply evolve along the way? Professor ALASDAIR WHITTLE, author of the[…]
Did Arthur Really Pull the Sword from the Stone?
Did Arthur really pull a sword from a stone? Can archaeology shed light on myths like these, and can myth shed light on archaeology? In this extract from the newly published Myth & Materiality, JOHN[…]