Recently added articles from Antiquity:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * The archaeology profession, not yet half a century old, has had plenty of ups and downs. Is it now facing an abyss? Maybe it is time to reconsider how we ply our trade--whether what we do should be a function of the ...
The Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction Some of the most enduring questions in palaeoanthropology concern evidence for the repeated expansions of genes, populations and/or cultural practices from sub-Saharan Africa into Eurasia. The initial dispersals of Pliocene hominins and the dispersal of anatomically ...
Who was buried at Stonehenge?(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The human remains at Stonehenge Stonehenge is Britain's largest cemetery of the third millennium cal BC and yet we know very little about who was buried there and when. Excavations across almost half of its area have yielded 52 cremation burials, many cremated fragments and over ...
The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction The Greater Stonehenge Cursus was first identified in 1723 by William Stukeley, who famously supposed it to have been a Roman chariot-racing track (Stukeley 1740: 41). As well as the first cursus monument to have been recognised, it is also one of the largest. At ...
Exploiting a damaged and diminishing resource: survey, sampling and society at a Bronze Age cemetery complex in Cyprus.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction Readers of Antiquity will be aware of the increasing destruction of archaeological sites through development and illegal excavation. Nowhere is this of greater concern than on the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus. There is a consequent imperative to develop ...