For this month’s Science Notes, we will be exploring a technology that is mentioned frequently in the pages of CA, and which,…
A recent study has identified the first direct evidence of milk consumption by humans anywhere in the world, by analysing the teeth…
These 12 quite disparate papers cover mining/quarrying of flint, chert, and other fine-grained silicic rocks within the British Isles (and Norway), although…
This report describes excavations by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) on the edge of Daventry. The archaeology was concentrated in three areas,…
The most recent season of surveying at Brú na Bóinne in County Meath, Ireland, has proven very successful, identifying 40 previously unrecorded…
As this year’s dig season at the Ness of Brodgar came to an end, an international team of archaeologists uncovered a surprising…
Excavation in the Carrowmore complex of megalithic monuments in County Sligo, Ireland, known for its prehistoric passage tombs, has shed interesting new…
New excavation and analysis of three crannogs – or man-made islands – in the Outer Hebrides has clearly demonstrated that they had…
An excavation at Kirkton of Fetteresso near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire has yielded some of the earliest Neolithic pottery yet found in Scotland.…
A recent ancient DNA study looking at the genetics of Neolithic Britons provides strong evidence to suggest that the shift to farming…