Current Archaeology - Britain's favourite archaeology magazine
Happy New Year! Our cover story takes us to Snettisham in Norfolk, where a single field has yielded at least 14 Iron Age metalwork hoards. This unique collection has the potential to transform our understanding of ancient artistry and ceremonial practices – and, with analysis of the hoards now published…
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A large Anglo-Saxon cemetery has recently been discovered at Overstone in Northamptonshire. With 154 interments, it is the largest burial ground from…
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Current Archaeology Live! 2025
Current Archaeology Awards. The annual Current Archaeology Awards 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 contributions to archaeology.. These awards are voted for entirely by the public – there are no panels of judges – so we encourage you to get involved and choose the projects ...
Current Archaeology 418 - Current Archaeology
Dec 5, 2024 · This month’s cover story showcases a monumental mystery from the Roman frontier. Excavations at Carlisle Cricket Club are uncovering the remains of a sumptuous building dating to the early 3rd century. Could its construction be connected to Septimius Severus’ Caledonian campaigns? From the footprint of a massive building to footprints left by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, we then visit ...
Archaeologist of the Year 2024 – Nominees - Current Archaeology
Dec 1, 2023 · Amanda is an Associate Professor of Field Archaeology with the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading. Since 1997, she has been the Director of the Archaeology Field School, located at Silchester Roman Town (Insula IX) for 18 years, then in the Vale of Pewsey for 3 years and, most recently, at Silchester (Roman bathhouse), Islay (various sites), and Cookham (Anglo-Saxon ...
Current Archaeology 417 - Current Archaeology
Nov 7, 2024 · It is not often that we at CA get to write about far-flung finds from such countries as Korea, Sweden, and Syria (though we love reading about them in the pages of our sister-magazine Current World Archaeology). However, in this month’s cover feature, which draws on the British Museum’s new Silk Roads exhibition, we explore how people, goods, and ideas travelled vast distances between AD ...
The chances of surviving the Black Death - Current Archaeology
Mar 18, 2008 · Why did some people survive the Black Death, and others succumb? At the time of the plague – which ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351, carrying off 50 million people, perhaps half the population – various prophylactics were tried, from the killing of birds, cats and rats to the wearing of leather breeches (protecting the legs from flea bites) and the burning of aromatic spices and herbs. Now ...
Peasant houses in Midland England - Current Archaeology
May 1, 2013 · How the Black Death prompted a building boom It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing in the English Midlands, many incorporated into des res village houses. Chris Catling reports on how some peasants lived very well in the Middle Ages ...
Time to axe the Anglo-Saxons? - Current Archaeology
Sep 25, 2019 · Did ‘the Anglo-Saxon migrations’ take place, and were Romano-British leaders replaced by those of Germanic descent? Susan Oosthuizen’s new book, The Emergence of the English, is a call to rethink our interpretations of the 5th and 6th centuries AD, reflecting on whether many of the assumptions we make about the period are actually supported by evidence. Interpretations that cannot be ...