I have now examined the archaeology of every county in Britain bar one – Wiltshire. This was no accident, for I have…
In 1995 the discovery of part of a Royal Navy warship hidden in the Wheelwrights Shop at The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, sparked…
When Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in November 1922, the Western world was seized by an epidemic of Egyptomania. What is less…
It’s Guy Fawkes night — 5 November 2012 – and I have been in London for 50 years. I first came to…
It is a common complaint today that our society has become too unequal. To an archaeologist, of course, the complaint is nonsense.…
What to do when you retire A lot of my friends seem to be retiring at present and for the same…
Lincoln – Mick ‘Lindiana’ Jones retires On October 20th2012, I went up to Lincoln, to the Retirement Party for my…
Now that I am Editor-in-Chief, it means that I am at least semi-retired from Current Archaeology and I am therefore able to…
This year’s Arbeia Society conference will feature recent discoveries on Hadrian’s Wall, as well as plans for future research involving the local…
Operation Nightingale, the innovative rehabilitation project using archaeological fieldwork to help the recovery of soldiers wounded in Afghanistan, has added two more…
1-2 March 2013 - Click here for full details, and to purchase tickets…