News Round Up

Ahead of a special Museums at Night concert performance on May 15, Jude Holland, project manager of Doncaster 1914-18, talks about the collection objects and stories from the First World War that have inspired a series of songs by renowned folk…

The Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition displays the remarkable work of German-Jewish photographer Gerty Simon, and features many of her original prints from the 1920s and 1930s When Gertrude (Gerty) Simon fled the Nazi regime in 1933 with her…

The Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition displays the remarkable work of German-Jewish photographer Gerty Simon, and features many of her original prints from the 1920s and 1930s When Gertrude (Gerty) Simon fled the Nazi regime in 1933 with her…

Some splendid Turners travel up north to take you back in time and into the landscapes that inspired one of England’s greatest painters In 1797, aged just 22, JMW Turner set off on his first tour of the north of England, spending three months…

In this final column exploring the stories behind Current Archaeology cover images, I am bringing things right up to date by examining covers from issue 301 (April 2015) onwards. Despite the challenging environment for archaeology in recent years,…

Four years of excavations at a 5,500-year-old causewayed enclosure have shed vivid light on a Berkshire monument and the landscape’s early Neolithic past, illuminating the lives of some of the first farming communities in Britain. The post The last…

Three long-lost gravestones belonging to one of the most significant collections of Viking Age sculpture in Britain and Ireland have been found during a community dig in the churchyard of Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. The stones were (re)…

Previous isotopic analysis of animal remains from Durrington Walls, a large henge enclosure 3km northeast of Stonehenge, demonstrated that both cattle and pigs were brought to the complex from across Britain (see CA 334). Now, a further study…

A lost monastery founded by an Anglo-Saxon princess may have been rediscovered, potentially bringing an end to a search that has gone on for decades. The post Finding Æbbe’s monastery appeared first on Current Archaeology.

In Current Archaeology 339, we reported the discovery of a number of human skeletons on the ominously named ‘Rat Island’ in Gosport, Hampshire. These burials had been exposed as a result of erosion following winter storms and were found to be those…

A team from the universities of Leicester and Southampton recently re-examined previous Avebury excavations and conducted new surveying of the site (in a study published in the journal Antiquity), establishing a possible new chronology of the…

The study of isotopes – chemical signatures preserved in our bones and teeth that shed light on diet and movements during life – are increasingly becoming a major part of archaeology, frequently redefining how we look at different periods and…

An unusual underground Monitoring Post (UGMP), used during the Cold War, has been revealed during an excavation by Wessex Archaeology near Wokingham. The structure is part of a national network of 1,563 UGMPs, which were built for the Royal Observer…

This month marks 40 years since Wessex Archaeology was founded. Milestone birthdays are often a time of reflection as well as celebration, and in this issue we are exploring four of Wessex Archaeology’s recent projects to shed light on widely…

SEVILLE, SPAIN—Carlos Odriozola of the University of Seville and his colleagues analyzed six beads recovered from prehistoric high-status graves—two found in a 5,000-year-old cave tomb known as La Molina in southern Spain, and four 4,000-year-old…

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—Nature News reports that a fossil discovered in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave, which is located on the Tibetan Plateau, has been identified as a partial Denisovan jawbone. The mandible is described as having a robust, primitive shape…

NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND—Earth.com reports that signs of an aggressive bone disease have been found in six of the 130 skeletons unearthed at Norton Priory, a twelfth-century abbey in northwest England. Researchers led by Carla Burrell of the University…

VALDIVIA, CHILE—A team of researchers led by paleontologist Karen Moreno and geologist Mario Pino of Austral University has found an ancient human footprint at the Pilauco archaeological site in northern Patagonia, according to a Live Science report…

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—A new review of 154 Neanderthal sites in central and western Europe, led by Stewart Finlayson of the University of Cambridge, has found golden eagle remains at 26 of them, according to a Science Magazine report. The researchers…

HYDERABAD, INDIA—According to a Times of India report, a life-sized stucco sculpture of a Bhodhisattva has been unearthed at Phanigiri, a Buddhist site in southern India dating back to the first century B.C. “This unique sculpture found in the…