News Round Up

CINCINNATI, OHIO—Archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati have excavated two Bronze Age tombs at the ancient site of Pylos in Greece, according to a report in the New York Times. The burials were first discovered during investigations of an…

It’s not often that museum curators get to hang out on Hollywood film sets. But it happened to me during the making of Troy, starring Brad Pitt and released by Warner Brothers in 2004. Director Wolfgang Petersen generously invited me both to visit…

For this month’s Science Notes, we will be exploring a technology that is mentioned frequently in the pages of CA, and which, in a recent survey of the Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, has allowed hundreds of previously unknown sites…

BONN, GERMANY—Researchers including Nicolaus Seefeld of the University of Bonn and scientists at the Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory at the National Autonomous University of Mexico have analyzed human remains recovered from a 1,400-year-old mass…

EDMONTON, CANADA—Live Science reports that researchers led by Robert Losey of the University of Alberta examined more than 90 atlatls and fragments of such weapons recovered from the Par-Tee shell midden in the 1960s and 1970s. Located on the…

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—In-Cyprus reports that Craig Barker of the University of Sydney and his colleagues investigated Roman infrastructure in the vicinity of the theater at the site of Nea Paphos, which is located in southwest Cyprus. The theater was…

BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND—The Telegraph reports that archaeologists have recovered swivel guns, a gun port lid, a mophead and bucket, clay pipes, wig curlers, and intact bottles from the wreckage of HMS Invincible, an eighteenth century Royal Navy…

RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT—The Wilton Bulletin reports that three male skeletons were discovered during renovation work on an eighteenth-century house in southwestern Connecticut. State Archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni noted the men’s robust skeletons…

Current Archaeology Live! 2020 will be held on 28-29 February 2020, at the University of London’s Senate House. Below is the provisional timetable, and we will be updating this over the coming weeks with more information. We hope to seeing you there…

This book offers an alternative view on the well-trodden path of attempting to identify the site of the fabled last stand of the Caledonii. Offering a new analysis of the earliest Roman invasion, Forder re-examines the extent of the occupation,…

This important publication is the first study of medieval agriculture in Wales to be produced in many years, and as such offers a valuable contribution to a subject that has been far less comprehensively written about than it has in England and…

In England we are so surrounded by brick, much of our cities and towns being built out if it, that we are in danger of taking it entirely for granted. Carolyne Haynes’ delightful paperback book sets out to change this. She introduces the reader to…

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA—Archaeologists are investigating a possible Vietnam War–era military training site at Fort Jackson, an initial entry training center for the U.S. Army in South Carolina, according to an ABC News report. Stacey Young of the…

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA—According to a New Scientist report, Marie Nicole Pareja of the University of Pennsylvania worked with primatologists to re-examine wall-paintings of monkeys in a Minoan building buried in volcanic ash around 1600 B.C. at…

POCKLINGTON, ENGLAND—Conservation of a Celtic warrior’s bronze shield discovered in an Iron Age cemetery in the north of England in 2017 has revealed its scalloped border and detailed decorations, according to an Artnet News report. The shield…

CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, a team of researchers from Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities has unearthed a red granite bust of Ramesses II on private land in Giza. Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said the…

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT—The Hartford Courant reports that excavation ahead of bridge construction over the Farmington River uncovered a 12,500-year-old Paleoindian site under more than six feet of earth. Archaeologist David Leslie of Archaeological…

The tidal reach of the River Thames is the longest archaeological site in Britain, its rhythmically rising and falling waters exposing a wealth of material spanning millennia of human activity along its banks. For the last decade, thousands of…

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—According to a Cosmos Magazine report, cave art discovered in Indonesia’s region of Sulawesi has been dated to at least 44,000 years old by a team of researchers led by Maxime Aubert of Griffith University, who measured the…

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—According to a Live Science report, archaeologist Michael Harrower of Johns Hopkins University and his colleagues have discovered a Christian basilica dated to the fourth century at the site of Beta Samati in northern Ethiopia,…