News Round Up

HAMDEN, CONNECTICUT—The Milford Mirror reports that three skeletons believed to date to the Revolutionary War period are being examined with computer tomography at Quinnipiac University. The bones were discovered during construction work near the…

The sheer cliffs of the small island of Okinoshima rise abruptly out of the sea some 40 miles off the coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu. Okinoshima’s sole resident is a Shinto priest who serves as the caretaker of small wooden shrines built…

CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS—According to a report by The Southern Illinoisan, human remains unearthed in Black Mesa, Arizona, between 1977 and 1983 by archaeologists from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, have been repatriated to the Navajo Nation…

Excavations in Llandaff, near Cardiff, have uncovered a medieval building next to the Old Bishop’s Castle during a project to construct a new community centre on the site of a block of public toilets. The post Medieval house investigated in…

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA—According to a statement released by the University of the Witwatersrand, researchers including scientists Lyn Wadley and Christine Sievers have found evidence that early modern humans collected and cooked starchy plant…

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—According to a Live Science report, a rare drawing of a demon has been discovered on a 2,700-year-old Assyrian clay tablet held at Berlin’s Vorderasiatisches Museum by Troels Pank Arbøll of the University of Copenhagen. The…

CLARK COUNTY, IDAHO—CNN reports that the DNA Doe Project has identified bones recovered from Idaho’s Buffalo Cave as the remains of Joseph Henry Loveless, an outlaw who broke out of prison in the early twentieth century after he was arrested for…

MIAMI, FLORIDA—Mexico News Daily reports that a collector in the United States has handed over some 3,500 tongue-shaped copper coins to Mexican authorities. Jessica Cascante of the Mexican Consulate in Miami said the coins are thought to have been…

SLIVEN, BULGARIA—Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that a bronze crucifix pendant dated to the tenth century and a medieval seal ring bearing an image of a peacock, which is also considered to be a Christian symbol, were unearthed at the site of the…

XI’AN, CHINA—According to a Xinhua report, 200 terracotta warriors have been recovered over the past ten years from a 4,000-square-foot section of one of the three pits that surround the tomb of Qin Shihuang, who ruled as the first emperor of China…

In 2018, Highways England opened an upgraded section of motorway on the A1 in North Yorkshire. Construction of the new road prompted a series of large-scale excavations, with illuminating results. Stuart Ross and Cath Ross present some of the…

In this third column on Roman villas, Joe Flatman turns his sights north and westwards, into the frontier lands where traditionally villas have not been expected to be found. The post Excavating the CA archive: Roman villas – part 3 appeared first…

Happy New Year! It’s amazing that 2020 is upon us already – which means that our annual conference is also approaching fast – see p.60 for more details of the timetable and how to have your say in the CA Awards. When asked what the Romans did for us…

Museum Review

Archaeological work on L’Ancresse Common, Guernsey, has revealed that a number of earthworks which have long been believed to be Bronze Age burial mounds may, in fact, be the rare remains of Napoleonic-era military camp kitchens.  The post…

124.1 By Claudia Moser. Pp. xvi + 209. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019. $105. ISBN 978-1-108-42885-9 (cloth). Reviewed by Lora Holland GoldthwaiteRoman altars, apart from special ones such as the Ara Pacis, are rarely the focus of…

124.1 Edited by Valentina Di Napoli, Francesco Camia, Vasilis Evangelidis, Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Dylan Rogers, and Stavros Vlizos (Meletemata 80). Pp. xxviii + 652. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 2018. €110. ISBN 978-960-…

124.1 By Sarah Levin-Richardson. Pp. xx + 243. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019. $99.99. ISBN 9781108496872 (cloth). Reviewed by John R. ClarkeLevin-Richardson’s book fills a gap in the scholarship, since—as the author’s careful…

124.1 By Laura Pfuntner. Pp. viii + 306. University of Texas Press, Austin 2019. $55. ISBN 978-1-4773-1722-8 (cloth). Reviewed by Jerrad LancasterFor the seven centuries during which Sicily fell under Roman purview (ca. 250 BCE–450 CE), the…

124.1 By Brent Nongbri. Pp. xi + 403. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2018. $35. ISBN 978-0-300-21541-0 (cloth). Reviewed by Steven M. StannishThe collecting of early Christianity’s remnants has an extraordinary history. In the…