Current Archaeology - Britain's favourite archaeology magazine
WEBCurrent Archaeology 414 – ON SALE NOW. As the sun has proven somewhat unreliable this summer, let’s talk about the moon instead. Stonehenge is best known for its solar alignments, but was its design also influenced by a once-in-a-generation lunar phenomenon? This month’s cover feature discusses an ongoing project that is …
Digs Archives - Current Archaeology
WEBThe Copped Hall Trust Archaeological Project (CHTAP) Archaeology Experience Weekends. The Copped Hall Trust Archaeological Project (CHTAP) offers Archaeology Experience Weekends to absolute beginners who would like an opportunity to: Excavate on a ‘live’ site,…. Digs / Fieldwork.
Peasant houses in Midland England - Current Archaeology
WEBMay 1, 2013 · 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. Phoenix Cottage in Warwickshire, is a …
Equipment Archives - Current Archaeology
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Digging Jacob's Island - Current Archaeology
WEBFeb 7, 2012 · According to Dickens, many of these houses were unoccupied and adapted for the purpose of crime, with concealed tunnels and windows to the roofs leading to ingenious hiding-places. He situates murderer Bill Sykes’ hideaway at Edward Street, in Metcalf Courton the mill stream, just south of Jacob Street. Jacob’s Island was, …
Specialisms in archaeology – Choosing a field
WEBNov 16, 2009 · The field of archaeology covers the full extent of human existence, through time and across the world. Small wonder it has spawned so many sub-disciplines, theoretical and practical. We look at some of the choices. There is more to archaeology than scraping away with a trowel or brushing dust from ancient hieroglyphs. The word ‘archaeology’ (derived from the Greek archaiologia) means the ...
Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon
WEBDec 7, 2012 · In mid October 2012 an all-points bulletin was emailed to Time Team staff. It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. A few days later news of Time Team‘s demise broke in the Guardian. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. Here we ...
The chances of surviving the Black Death - Current Archaeology
WEBMar 18, 2008 · Sharon DeWitte and James Wood of the University of Albany, New York, have examined 490 skeletons from the East Smithfield plague pit in London and found that the Black Death was selective in picking off the already frail. Lesions (damaged bone) associated with earlier episodes of infection, under-nutrition or other forms of.
Current Archaeology 410 - Current Archaeology
WEBApr 4, 2024 · Current Archaeology 410. Today, Smallhythe Place in Kent is best known as a bohemian rural retreat once owned by the Victorian actress Ellen Terry and her daughter Edy Craig. As this month’s cover feature reveals, however, the surrounding fields preserve evidence of much earlier activity, including a medieval royal shipyard and a previously ...
The many faces of Silbury Hill - Current Archaeology
WEBAug 8, 2014 · Unravelling the evolution of Europe’s largest prehistoric mound. When a tunnel into Silbury Hill was opened for the first time in almost 40 years to allow emergency conservation work, a team of English Heritage archaeologists seized the opportunity to enter the mound. Their recently published work has revolutionised our view of this ...