News Round Up

This book is a model of its kind. The extent to which the structure of St Peter at Gloucester has been altered – as with all large Norman churches in England – requires, on the one hand, a close analysis of the remains and, on the other, clear and…

TROMSØ, NORWAY—Science Magazine reports that archaeologist Hans Peter Blankholm of the Arctic University of Norway and his colleagues found “unhealthy” levels of toxic metals in the bones of Atlantic cod and harp seals recovered from garbage pits at…

JENA, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 5,200-year-old grains uncovered in the Chinese Altai Mountains by researchers led by Xinying Zhou of Beijing’s Institute of Vertebrate…

MISSOULA, MONTANA—Missoulian reports that artifacts dating back to the late nineteenth century were recovered by a team led by University of Montana archaeologist Kelly Dixon working at a construction site in downtown Missoula, in what was the city’…

In this month’s ‘Science Notes’, we will look at the way three-dimensional (3D) imaging can be used to study the accuracy of plaster casts created by 19th-century archaeologists to record and preserve ancient monuments. A recent study published in…

Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) based at Orkney College has received a grant of £10,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the Orkney Energy Landscapes Project. The work will be carried out in partnership with the European…

Visitors to Stonehenge have been taking photographs of the monument – and themselves – for almost 150 years. Lucia Marchini visited the site to explore a new exhibition showcasing some of these images, and the stories they tell. The post Review –…

DUNKELD, SCOTLAND—The BBC reports that a team of archaeologists and volunteers in central Scotland has excavated the site of a hilltop fort thought to have been inhabited by Pictish elites between the seventh and ninth centuries A.D. The researchers…

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that 83 graves dated to the first half of the fourth millennium B.C. have been discovered in the Nile Delta to the northeast of Cairo. Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said the burials belonged…

VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA—Science Magazine reports that geologist Erin Matchan of the University of Melbourne and her colleagues have dated volcanic rocks at southeastern Australia’s Budj Bim Volcanic Complex and the Tower Hill volcano, which is located…

KRAKÓW, POLAND—According to a Live Science report, researchers led by archaeologist Radosław Palonka of Jagiellonian University employed laser scanning and photogrammetry to create highly detailed 3-D models of 800-year-old artworks inscribed on…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—According to a DCist report, workers renovating the basement of a Georgetown townhouse discovered human remains thought to date to the early nineteenth century. City archaeologist Ruth Trocolli said the site may have been part of an…

AYLESHAM, ENGLAND—Kent Online reports that contract archaeologists have unearthed two ancient skeletons and traces of a Roman settlement at a building site on high ground overlooking Canterbury and the Roman ports of Richborough and Dover in…

A collection of beautiful but seemingly unloved maritime paintings has been restored in Hull for the re-opening of the Hull Maritime Museum in 2023. Like some paintings in local museum collections, a number of the artworks in the Hull Maritime…

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter reveals its extraordinary collection of Devon lace and tells the story of how Queen Victoria revived the cottage industry The fine craft tradition of bobbin and needlelace in Devon is said to date back to…

Imagining prehistoric structures, how they were thousands of years ago and examining long lost society is one of the most exciting elements of any archaeological study of the past. Digital technology now allows us as archaeologists to visualise…

At the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge University a stunning new display of fine native, stuffed specimens celebrates the diversity of British birds If you’re not a birdwatcher, you might be surprised by the sheer diversity of bird species that we…

An auxiliary bunker built during the Second World War has been discovered during deforestation work in southern Scotland. The post Home Guard Auxiliary bunker discovered appeared first on Current Archaeology.

NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA—The Canberra Times reports that a stone-carved boomerang was discovered in southeast Australia in a creek bed after a bushfire cleared the groundcover in the village of Cobargo. Dave Johnston, director of the Australian…

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by Tel Aviv University, researchers including Shua Kisilevitz and Oded Lipschits of the university’s Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology and Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists…