Analysis of more than 300 human skeletons, recovered from three different medieval burial sites across Cambridge, has provided interesting new details of…
More than a decade in the making, this book was well worth the wait. It is a thorough compendium of knowledge on…
Anglo-Saxon law codes speak of facial mutilation as a punishment for certain crimes, but until recently no archaeological evidence had been found…
The whereabouts of some of the estimated 1,700 men who died in captivity after the Battle of Dunar was not known until…
Post-excavation analysis of a grave discovered on a hillside just north of Shoreham-by-Sea suggests that its Anglo-Saxon occupant may have met a…
Based on the results of the author’s MPhil research at Durham University, this volume examines an intriguing hypothesis: that the introduction of…
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…
What can a dozen skeletons tell us about life and death in Britain through the ages? Lucia Marchini visits an exhibition at…
It is a startling thought that (thanks to a quirk of the publishing process) this is the last issue of CA with…