The Roman city of Clunia has many prestigious monuments, such as the massive theatre shown on the cover. So why was the city a failure?
Europe’s First Farmers
November 7, 2008
Filed Under: Issue 32, Czech Republic, Features
Meet the ancestors: current research on skeletons from the Neolithic cemetery of Vedrovice is offering individual portraits of Europe’s first farmers
Litlu-Nupar Boat Burial
An account of the new discovery of a 9th century Viking pagan boat burial – the first to be discovered in Iceland for 40 years
Archaeology of Antalolia
A retrospective on the work of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, as they celebrate their 60th anniversary this year
New Method of Restoring Ancient Paintings
It is a problem that has frustrated many an archaeologist faced with recreating an ancient wall painting, mosaic or pot: just how to fit the thousands of jigsaw pieces together to recreate the original. This article is an extract from the full article published in World Archaeology Issue 32. Click here to subscribe
The Original Dairy Farmers
Cattle, sheep and goats were domesticated by the 8th millennium BC but until recently the earliest evidence for milk processing, most likely to make butter, ghee, yogurt and cheese, came from the 5th millennium BC. This article is an extract from the full article published in World Archaeology Issue 32. Click here to subscribe
Lost Towns
Far from the Amazon being virgin forest, it once supported a network of densely populated towns, according to Prof. Mike Heckenberger, from the University of Florida, in Gainesville, whose team has found evidence of a grid-like pattern of settlements connected by road networks and arranged around large central plazas in the Upper Xingu region of [...]
Beehives in the Jordan Valley
Beehives dating to the time of Solomon discovered in the Jordan Valley
Maritime Archaeology
Andrew Selkirk travels to Madrid to discover more on maritime archaeology and trade
Roman Amphitheatre in Britain, The
Tony Wilmott started with the re-excavation of one amphitheatre, that of Chester. He promptly went on to a re-examination of amphitheatres, sorts of amphitheatres (you need to read the book!), and theatres of Roman Britain to explain how they worked in practice. But this book is far more than a warm up for an excavation [...]
Cultural Heritage in Post War Recovery
Maintaining conservation standards in our towns and villages is essential work but light years away from the stench of cordite in Beirut or the poignant sight of Italian soldiers distributing bread below the citadel in Durres. This uplifting collection of 12 papers reminded me of our core values for they bring together the experiences of [...]
Viva La Revolucion!
Viva La Revolucion! is a wonderfully engaging title featuring recipes from Mexico’s best chefs. Cook-books are certainly all the rage at Christmas, but why pick one for an archaeology magazine? Quite simply because author Fiona Dunlop appreciates the strong cultural element of food and she makes that connection in this book. Thus, in introductory narratives to each [...]
Roman Empire, The
Instead of plastic toys that will be broken before Christmas dinner, how about one of the British Museum pocket series as stocking-fillers this year? Pitched at older children/younger teenagers, two new titles in the series have just appeared. Sam Moorhead takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the Roman Empire, sampling Gaulish wine, visiting the [...]
Second Royal Tomb of Vergina Reveals Alexander the Great, The
According to the archaeologist Manolis Andronikos, the Royal Tombs of Vergina, in northern Greece, belong to King Phillip II (388-336 BC) and his wife. However, D. Papazois, a retired Major General and a meticulous historical researcher, has a different view. After over a decade of research through the historical sources and through detailed examination of [...]
Out of Eden
Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He has been digging in Southeast Asia for the past 40 years. For anyone interested in the broad brush of human prehistory, then it is now essential to become acquainted with archaeogenetics. [...]
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