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WEBCurrent Archaeology 414 – ON SALE NOW. As the sun has proven somewhat unreliable this summer, let’s talk about the moon instead. Stonehenge is best known for its solar alignments, but was its design also influenced by a once-in-a-generation lunar phenomenon? This month’s cover feature discusses an ongoing project that is …
The chances of surviving the Black Death - Current Archaeology
WEBMar 18, 2008 · Sharon DeWitte and James Wood of the University of Albany, New York, have examined 490 skeletons from the East Smithfield plague pit in London and found that the Black Death was selective in picking off the already frail. Lesions (damaged bone) associated with earlier episodes of infection, under-nutrition or other forms of.
Excavating the CA archive: Francis Pryor - Current Archaeology
WEBFeb 5, 2018 · Fengate had been partially excavated by a team led by Christine Mahany in the late 1960s, but from 1971 Pryor led a larger project excavating over five acres of the site on behalf of the Department of the Environment. Off-and-on, teams led by Pryor kept working on this site across the 1970s, and it was here in 1982 that he discovered the ...
News Archives - Current Archaeology
WEBNorthamptonshire’s largest Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered. A large Anglo-Saxon cemetery has recently been discovered at Overstone in Northamptonshire. With 154 interments, it is the largest burial ground from…. News.
Life beside the lake - Current Archaeology
WEBMar 11, 2019 · Around 11,000 years ago, the banks of Lake Flixton were part of a rapidly changing world. This was just four centuries into the Holocene, the geological warm period in which we still live today, whose advent at the end of the last Ice Age heralded a sudden rise in global temperatures. On a more local scale, the area of …
Who did the Anglo-Saxons think they were? - Current Archaeology
WEBJan 29, 2021 · Not so in Kent. Some have stated, not entirely light-heartedly, that ‘Anglo-Saxon’ is inappropriate because it excludes the Jutes. But there is a significant point here: although people in Kent maintained the belief that they were of Jutish descent, and reasserted that by copying Jutlandic gold bracteates in the 6th century, they seem never ...
Peasant houses in Midland England - Current Archaeology
WEBMay 1, 2013 · Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing in the English Midlands, many incorporated into des res village houses. Chris Catling reports on how some peasants lived very well in the Middle Ages. Phoenix Cottage in Warwickshire, is a …
Glastonbury Abbey: the archaeological story - Current Archaeology
WEBOct 6, 2016 · Abbey archaeologists. The archaeological excavations began in the early 20th century, around the same time that Glastonbury emerged as a beacon for spiritual, creative, and occult movements in England. The first director of excavations is also regarded as a founding figure of the town’s New Age community: Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945) was ...
Resolving Repton - Current Archaeology
WEBJun 6, 2019 · In the 1970s and 1980s, investigations at Repton revealed evidence of a 9th-century Viking army camp, as well as a mass grave thought to contain their battle dead. Now new analysis and excavations have shed vivid new light on the nature of these remains, and given hints of a possible second camp nearby. Cat Jarman reports.
Peasant houses in Midland England: How the Black Death …
WEBMay 2, 2013 · It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing in the English Midlands, many now incorporated into des res village homes. Chris Catling reports on how some peasants lived very well in the Middle Ages. The term ‘peasant’ suggests poverty ...