‘The past lies in fragments… one might just as well try to reconstruct the idea of a tree from its leaves, or…
Time’s Anvil: England, archaeology and the imagination Richard Morris Phoenix, £9.99 ISBN 978-1780222448 The press release for this remarkable book announces that…
This is a book that reflects the uncomfortable truce that has been reached between pragmatism and ideology within the archaeological community in…
This is another quietly evangelising publication, priced to ensure a wide circulation and written by the leading experts in their field, part…
It is astonishing to think that this two-volume report, the definitive account of Roger Mercer’s excavations at Hambledon Hill between 1974 and…
Nothing is as good as a question to establish the theme of a book. But in this case the question is not…
This is an excellent book about a subject so fundamental to archaeological field practice that nobody should be let loose on an…
Many archaeologists regard Druids with disdain, as cranks or romantics who claim to have roots deep in the ancient past, but whose…
Tuscany is famous for handsome villas set in elevated positions overlooking formal gardens of clipped box that give way to an increasingly…
Coming to a library near you soon (one hopes, given the investment involved in owning a copy) is the third volume in…
Bryony Coles gave the name ‘Doggerland’ to the drowned landscape beneath the North Sea in her 1998 paper in the Proceedings of…