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Finds

  • April - First British cave art discovered at Creswell Crags
    Creswell Crags
    Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England near the villages of Creswell, Whitwell and Elmton...

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  • Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell
    Royal saxon tomb in Prittlewell
    The Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell is a high-status Anglo-Saxon tomb excavated at Prittlewell, north of Southend-on-Sea, in the English county of Essex....

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  • Iron Age
    Iron Age
    The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...

     gold coin hoard at Henley-on-Thames
    Henley-on-Thames
    Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, about 10 miles downstream and north-east from Reading, 10 miles upstream and west from Maidenhead...

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Publications

  • Wayne D. Cocroft and Roger J. C. Thomas - Cold War: building for nuclear confrontation 1946-1989.
  • Christopher Dyer
    Christopher Dyer
    Christopher Charles Dyer CBE FBA is Leverhulme Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, England.-Background:...

     - "The archaeology of medieval small towns". Medieval Archaeology 47 pp. 85-114.
  • Adrienne Mayor
    Adrienne Mayor
    Adrienne Mayor is a historian of ancient science and a classical folklorist.Mayor specializes in ancient history and the study of "folk science": how pre-scientific cultures interpreted data about the natural world, and how these interpretations form the basis of many ancient myths, folklore and...

     - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world.
  • Colin Renfrew
    Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
    Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph.D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites...

     - Figuring It Out: What are we? Where do we come from? – The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists.
  • Ruth M. Van Dyke and Susan E. Alcock
    Susan E. Alcock
    Susan Alcock is a American archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire. Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Yale and the University of Cambridge....

     (ed.) - Archaeologies of Memory.

Miscellaneous

  • November 10 - Official opening of the Department of First World War
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     Archaeology in the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community (IAP) at Ypres
    Ypres
    Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, Vlamertinge, Voormezele, Zillebeke, and Zuidschote...

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