‘The past lies in fragments… one might just as well try to reconstruct the idea of a tree from its leaves, or…
In this fascinating book, geneticist David Reich reveals the origins of modern populations through the study of DNA. The results of analysis…
Conventional wisdom has it that very little of the English landscape can be traced further back than the Anglo-Saxon period; and while…
In the last 15 years, the Implement Petrology Group – its members colloquially known as the mad-axers – has been reinvigorated and…
his book tells the story of the Harvard Archaeological Mission, which worked in Ireland between 1932 and 1936 to explore the Celtic…
The popular (and beautifully illustrated) series exploring Portable Antiquities Scheme finds in different areas continues with a slim volume focused not on…
The New Forest is in many ways a paradox: a liminal landscape that many of us have ventured past or through and…
Students of Irish archaeology will be familiar with John Waddell’s Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland. This new publication is far removed from that…
Neither Harry nor June Welsh require an introduction in Northern Irish archaeology, being the authors – both jointly and separately – of…
This new publication by Oxford Archaeology is a monograph report of an excavation undertaken between 2009 and 2013 ahead of house-building just…
A biography normally explores the life of an individual person, but in this wide-ranging new book, Richard Hingley (Professor of Roman Archaeology…