The nearly 10,000-year-old skeleton who came to be known as ‘Cheddar Man’ was found in 1903, in Gough’s Cave at Cheddar Gorge,…
Ancient DNA analysis of an Anglo-Saxon woman from East Anglia, afflicted with leprosy, has indicated that there could be a link between…
In the first ‘Science Notes’ (CA 333), we discussed the identification of a possible female Viking warrior using ancient DNA analysis. This…
The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Britain is a widely debated topic, particularly with regard to the role migration played in spreading Neolithic farming…
For this month’s ‘Science Notes’, we went to the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU ) to explore the enigmatic process behind radiocarbon…
A newly opened exhibition at Stonehenge documents the diet of the community thought to have been responsible for erecting the main phase…
Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s column…
It is a problem not often considered: the difficulty of feeding armies while they are hundreds of miles from home or any…
In this month’s ‘Science Notes’, we take an in-depth look at archaeomagnetic dating, highlighting recent advances in reliability and its future prospects…
What can a dozen skeletons tell us about life and death in Britain through the ages? Lucia Marchini visits an exhibition at…