The tumultuous history of the legionary fortress and civilian town of aquincum, Roman Budapest
Ziyaret Tepe
What was life like on the northern frontier of the assyrian empire?The colonial site of Ziyaret Tepe reveals how boom went bust
Serra Da Capivara
The compelling rock art of north-eastern Brazil explored. But how might it redraft the story of early human migration
Obituary: Lawrence Barfield
Lawrence Barfield (1935-2009) As remembered by the Editor This article is an extract from the full article published in World Archaeology Issue 37. Click here to subscribe
A New Dating Technique for Fired-Clay Ceramica
Arelatively simple and inexpensive technique for dating ceramics has been developed by scientists at the UK’s Manchester University that could revolutionise the dating and phasing of archaeological sites. Called ‘rehydroxylation dating’, the method is based on the discovery that fired-clay materials, such as brick, tile and ceramic, recombine chemically with environmental moisture at a constant [...]
Tooled Up Chimps
‘Why don’t we study the chimpanzee stone age?’ asks an international group of researchers in a paper recently published in the journal Nature (Vol 460, July 2009). Based at leading universities in Europe, Asia and America, the authors argue for the creation of the new interdisciplinary field of primate archaeology to answer such fundamental research [...]
Athens Revisited
A walk through the heart of Athens, taking in the latest archaeological gems, but ably avoiding the crowded Acropolis
Salento
Richard Hodges tours the Salento in South Italy; there he finds a clash of civilizations and some intriguing Medieval graffiti
Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire
The starting point of Stamper’s book is his reconstruction of the original Temple of Jupiter Optimus aximus on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, built c.525-509 BC. Part of the aim of his reconstruction is to take account of recent archaeological work on the site and to situate the temple more comfortably within the construction techniques [...]
Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
The Rape of Mesopotamia is not an exaggerated title, unfortunately. His book is an ‘autopsy of a cultural disaster’, writes Lawrence Rothfield, a former director of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, an institution long associated with Mesopotamian archaeology. Indeed he draws heavily on the experience of McGuire Gibson, his archaeologist colleague [...]
Milk Jug was a Goat: Two Families, Two Caribbean Islands, 1635-1987, the
This is a book about those members of two English families who were long resident in the islands of St Kitts and Nevis, one from the earliest days of the English settlement and the other from the latter part of the 18th century. Both families contained men who were highly placed in the governance, administration [...]
Sutton Hoo
September 3, 2009
Filed Under: Issue 37, Great Discoveries, UK
The Sutton Hoo ship cemetery was one of the ideological forging-houses of early Medieval kingship in Europe. Here we discover how kings were first made.
Ceramic Figures from Ancient Japan
September 3, 2009
Filed Under: Issue 37, Exhibition, Japan
A look at the ancient Japanese ceramic figures currently on show at the British Museum
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