News Round Up

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—Cosmos Magazine reports that traces of Mediterranean wine have been found in vessels recovered in different areas of the Heuneberg site, which dates to around 500 to 700 B.C. and is located in southwest Germany. Maxime Rageot of…

YORK, ENGLAND—Art historian Christopher Norton of the University of York has suggested that the Bayeux Tapestry was commissioned within a few years of the Norman conquest of England in A.D. 1066 to hang in France’s Bayeux Cathedral, according to a…

The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research excavation at the Ness of Brodgar has been nominated both by Professor Eszter Bánffy of the German Archaeological Institute, and Dr. Michael Boyd of the University of…

SWANNANOA, NORTH CAROLINA—A team of researchers led by David Moore of Warren Wilson College has found a small piece of plate armor at Fort San Juan, a well-preserved fort built by Spanish soldiers some 450 years ago on the site of the Catawba town…

SEWANEE, TENNESSEE—Science News reports that the weathering of volcanic rock at the site of Easter Island’s major rock quarry enriched the surrounding soil with phosphorus and other elements crucial for the growth of crops. Sarah Sherwood of the…

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a BBC News report, researchers including Marcel Niekus of Stichting STONE/Foundation for Stone Age Research suggest that Neanderthals were capable of complex thinking, based upon adhesive made from birch tar…

The latest publication in the 50 Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme series uses a wide range of artefacts, carefully selected from the 10,000 objects recorded through the PAS in Berkshire, to tell the story of life in this landscape. The…

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Deutsche Welle reports that traces of a well-preserved 1,500-year-old Christian church were uncovered during a construction project to the west of Jerusalem by a team of archaeologists led by Benjamin Storchan of the Israel…

NAPLES, ITALY—According to a Reuters report, Herculaneum’s House of the Bicentenary, a lavish three-story property boasting more than 6,000 square feet of living space, has reopened following extensive conservation. Gaius Petronius Stephanus and his…

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that researchers from AOC Archaeology Group have reconstructed the face of a man whose 600-year-old remains were uncovered during a construction project in northeastern Scotland’s city of Aberdeen. Examination of…

This book offers a unique interpretation of the Lullingstone Roman Villa in the Darent Valley of Kent, exploring how its inhabitants used space to assert their position in society, as well as their cultural identity. The post Review – Culture and…

The White Horse at Uffington, a giant, sinuous hill figure (or, if you prefer, a geoglyph on a par with the Nazca Lines of Peru) has mystified and inspired in equal measure for centuries. Once thought to mark the victory of Alfred’s Saxon army over…

ECATEPEC, MEXICO—Mexico News Daily reports that archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have discovered 11 images built into the walls of a 27-foot-long tunnel dating to the seventeenth century. The tunnel is part…

JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA—The Daily Press reports that archaeologists have found the outline of another west-facing grave in the soil adjacent to the 1639 church building site at Jamestown. At the time, it was common to bury Christians with their feet and…

ROME, ITALY—Wanted in Rome reports that medieval burials were unearthed during utility work on the Via del Governo Vecchio in central Rome. The graves had been damaged by previous construction projects. The first burial contained the remains of a 25…

CHILIOMODI, GREECE—According to a Tornos News report, a Roman-era bath complex dating from the end of the third century to the mid-first century B.C. has been discovered among the public buildings at the center of the site of Tenea, which is located…

Knole is a house with a long and historically significant past. Since the present house was built in 1446, it has had many different phases: from the archiepiscopal palace of Thomas Bourchier in the 15th century, and a royal palace of Henry VIII and…

124.1 By Karyn M. Wesselingh (MeditArch Suppl. 11). Pp. xvii + 241. Mediterranean Archaeology, Sydney, Australia 2018. AUD$110. ISBN 978-0958026581 (cloth). Reviewed by Emmanuelle VilaThis zooarchaeological study is the sixth volume in the…

LONDON, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that 453 bronze objects dating to around 800 B.C. were discovered in four separate groups within a large, square-shaped enclosure ditch near the northern edge of the River Thames. Researchers from Historic England…

EUBOEA, GREECE—Officials from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that researchers from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Euboea returned to the Antikythera shipwreck site this month. Known for a bronze, complex clockwork mechanism…