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ArticleAfter the annexation of Gaul into the Roman empire, a new religious practice began in the Gallic provinces: offering votive objects representing either parts of the body or the entire body at healing sanctuaries. Analysis of these votives…

ArticleThis paper critically assesses the transformation of material culture assemblages on Crete between its conquest by Rome in 69–67 B.C.E. and the mid first century C.E. by first applying the frameworks of eventful archaeology and globalization…

ArticleThis article focuses on periodization in ancient art history, on aesthetic notions and judgments in ancient literary sources, and on the creation of the modern stylistic and cultural classification of the Severe Style period. Conventionally,…

ArticleOur study of Black-on-Red sherds found in well-stratified Iron IIA contexts at Megiddo shows that the earliest examples of this ware appear in an early stage of the Late Iron IIA, radiocarbon dated to the late 10th to early ninth century B.C.…

AJA IndexAdornato, G., Kritios and Nesiotes as Revolutionary Artists? Ancient and Archaeological Perspectives on the So-Called Severe Style Period: 557–87 Agre, D., D. Dichev, and G. Agre, Roman Balsamarium Shaped as a Male Head in Feline-Skin Cap…

GLEN FALLS, NEW YORK—Excavations at Rogers Island in the Hudson River have turned up a range of items dating to when it was a major British military staging ground in the mid-eighteenth century, and even earlier, according to a report from The Post-…

NEWGRANGE, IRELAND—A geophysical survey at the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site on Ireland's eastern coast has identified about 40 previously unknown monuments, The Irish Examiner reports. The monuments the team found are located on both sides of…

JALLARPUR, INDIA—The Hindu reports that researchers from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have radiocarbon dated a Chalcolithic, or Copper Age, village first identified last year in eastern India's Odisha state. Extensive mud architecture,…

WICKHAM, ENGLAND—The Southern Daily Echo reports that Winchester University students have recovered wreckage from a Hawker Hurricane fighter plane that crashed in a Hampshire field in 1940. Among the remnants of the plane left behind by RAF recovery…

Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s column below can be accessed for free for one month via Exact Editions, from 1 August. Use the links within the text to…

A large Norse hall has been discovered during excavations at Skaill Farmstead, on the island of Rousay, Orkney. The hall probably dates to the 10th to 12th centuries AD and was discovered below a more recent farmstead. A team of… Continue reading →

The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute undergraduate programme offers a professional placement in a commercial or academic organisation. This provides students with the vital experience of working in the often demanding…

‘Easy Company’, the American paratroopers also known as the ‘Band of Brothers’, is one of the best-known Allied units involved in the D-Day landings. Less well known is the fact that they trained for the campaign in Wiltshire. Richard Osgood…

‘Easy Company’, the American paratroopers also known as the ‘Band of Brothers’, is one of the best-known Allied units involved in the D-Day landings. Less well known is the fact that they trained for the campaign in Wiltshire. Richard Osgood…

New excavation and analysis of three crannogs – or man-made islands – in the Outer Hebrides has clearly demonstrated that they had Neolithic origins, changing our understanding of these enigmatic sites. The post Rethinking Scottish crannogs…

Remnants from the Battle of Glensheil – the Highland battle that ended the 1719 Jacobite Rising and James Francis Edward Stuart’s ambitions of sitting on the throne from which his father, James II and VII, had been deposed – were recently discovered…

An excavation at Kirkton of Fetteresso near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire has yielded some of the earliest Neolithic pottery yet found in Scotland. The post Early evidence of the Neolithic in Scotland appeared first on Current Archaeology.

During excavations at Warth Park in Raunds, Northamptonshire, archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology east made an unusual roman discovery: a wooden arm with an open right hand. The post A handy discovery in Northamptonshire appeared first on…

Previously, large-scale changes in population were quite difficult, if not impossible, to discern from the archaeological record. But while there are still many biases and pitfalls, new statistical techniques are starting to provide innovative ways…

The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire was recently given UNESCO World Heritage status, making it the 32nd site to make the list in the UK. The post New World Heritage Finds Tray site for the UK appeared first on Current Archaeology.