This volume describes the results of some 20 years of investigation at a site near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The work revealed a pit…
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…
As I write, with a mid-August downpour hammering on the roof, this summer’s sweltering heatwave already feels a lifetime ago. During those…
A previously unknown Neolithic passage tomb has been discovered in County Meath, Ireland, beneath the 18th-century manor house of Dowth Hall. The…
Recent analysis of cremated human remains excavated from Stonehenge has shown that some of the individuals buried at the Neolithic monument may…
The search for the lost monastery where the Book of Deer – a tome containing the earliest surviving Gaelic writing – was…
A well-preserved prehistoric hearth has been discovered 5ft below the surface during a commercial watching brief on a pipe trench in St…