‘The past lies in fragments… one might just as well try to reconstruct the idea of a tree from its leaves, or…
As you would |expect from CA’s Archaeologist of the Year, this is an extremely well-researched and well-written book. Split into three parts,…
Skilled as they are at piecing together complex and often elusive clues to reconstruct a sequence of events, you might describe archaeologists…
That picture-postcard village you have just driven through might seem an eternal part of the landscape, but this informative and well-illustrated book…
Another in the series of ‘50 Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme’, this book focuses on Warwickshire, and demonstrates, once again, the…
Based on archaeological and fragmentary documentary evidence, the Irish Sea was a significant superhighway during prehistory, right through to the medieval period,…
Geology has few laws, but the most encompassing and important is the late 18th- to 19th-century Doctrine of Uniformitarianism – ‘the present…
The Roman army is a well-studied aspect of the ancient empire it served, and tourists frequently visit the remains of legionary fortresses…
Visiting any of the great national museums on the Continent (even the regional and local ones, come to that), students of Roman…
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Reformation and the Civil War reduced a great many of Britain’s abbeys and castles to…
Perched on a peninsula in the heart of the Orkney archipelago, the Ness of Brodgar is a truly remarkable site. Long-running excavations…