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Registrace 3. 04. 2013
CWA Photo Competition 2022 (sponsored by Hidden History Travel) - RESULTS
Adam Stanford (Aerial-Cam) announces the results of Current World Archaeology's Photo of the Year competition (sponsored by Hidden History Travel)
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2022 Current Archaeology Awards - RESULTS
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Julian Richards announces the results of the 2022 Current Archaeology Awards (sponsored by Oxbow Books, Butser Plus, and Wessex Insurance)
Mutiny in the Duchy: an American uprising in Second World War England -Kate Werran
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Mutiny in the Duchy: an American uprising in Second World War England -Kate Werran
Playing the Past: the archaeology of football in Scotland and its social benefits - Dr Paul Murtagh
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Playing the Past: the archaeology of football in Scotland and its social benefits - Dr Paul Murtagh
Monasteries in the Viking Age: Iona after AD 800 - Dr Adrián Maldonado
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Monasteries in the Viking Age: Iona after AD 800 - Dr Adrián Maldonado
The First Pharaohs: Professor Aidan Dodson
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The First Pharaohs: Professor Aidan Dodson
Iron Age coins in Britain: new advances through Linked Open Data - Dr Courtney Nimura
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Iron Age coins in Britain: new advances through Linked Open Data - Dr Courtney Nimura
Bridge over troubled water: Roman finds from Piercebridge: Prof Hella Eckardt & Dr Philippa Walton
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Bridge over troubled water: the Roman finds from the River Tees at Piercebridge in context: Professor Hella Eckardt and Dr Philippa Walton
Trellyffaint: art and feasting - Dr George Nash
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Trellyffaint: art and feasting - Dr George Nash
Libarna: putting together a fragmented history: Dr Katherine V. Huntley
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Libarna: putting together a fragmented history: Dr Katherine V. Huntley
Flipping the Script on Colonial Narratives: Roman Reliefs on the Antonine Wall - Dr Louisa Campbell
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Full title: Flipping the Script on Colonial Narratives: Replicating Roman Reliefs on the Antonine Wall - Dr Louisa Campbell
Secrets of the Cladh Hallan roundhouses - Professor Mike Parker Pearson
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Secrets of the Cladh Hallan roundhouses - Professor Mike Parker Pearson
Prehistoric diets in the Southern Levant: Dr Shyama Vermeersch
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Prehistoric diets in the Southern Levant: Dr Shyama Vermeersch
Archaeology in Japan: some reflections from the UK: Professor Simon Kaner
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Archaeology in Japan: some reflections from the UK: Professor Simon Kaner
Airfields and their potential for study - Dr Robert Clarke
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Airfields and their potential for study - Dr Robert Clarke
1942: Britain at the brink: Taylor Downing
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1942: Britain at the brink: Taylor Downing
Roman Richborough: the amphitheatre and town - Tony Wilmott
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Roman Richborough: the amphitheatre and town - Tony Wilmott
Rediscovering Fountains Abbey through conservation archaeology - Mark Newman
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Rediscovering Fountains Abbey through conservation archaeology - Mark Newman
The treasure chest of textiles - Dr Margarita Gleba, Dr Malika Kraamer, and Sarah Coleman
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The treasure chest of textiles - Dr Margarita Gleba, Dr Malika Kraamer, and Sarah Coleman
Conserving Stonehenge: the most major works on the sarsen lintels since the 1950s -Dr Heather Sebire
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Conserving Stonehenge: the most major works on the sarsen lintels since the 1950s -Dr Heather Sebire
Visualising Iron Age Shetland - Dr Li Sou
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Visualising Iron Age Shetland - Dr Li Sou
Visualising Dunhuang: the Mogao and Yulin Caves in China - Dr Dora C Y Ching
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Visualising Dunhuang: the Mogao and Yulin Caves in China - Dr Dora C Y Ching
The Priors Hall temple-mausoleum - Paddy Lambert
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The Priors Hall temple-mausoleum - Paddy Lambert
Stable isotope approaches to social differentiation in Indus Valley cities - Ayushi Nayak
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Stable isotope approaches to social differentiation in Indus Valley cities - Ayushi Nayak
Archaeologists in Quarantine- Natasha Billson
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Archaeologists in Quarantine- Natasha Billson
Was Hadrian's Wall an expensive folly? - Professor David Breeze
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Was Hadrian's Wall an expensive folly? - Professor David Breeze
Rise of the mega-henges? A new chronology for Mount Pleasant Henge, Dorset - Susan Greaney
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Rise of the mega-henges? A new chronology for Mount Pleasant Henge, Dorset - Susan Greaney
Old images, new perspectives: the HEIR Project - Dr Janice Kinory
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Old images, new perspectives: the HEIR Project - Dr Janice Kinory
Thames mudlarking - Jason Sandy and Nick Stevens
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Thames mudlarking - Jason Sandy and Nick Stevens
Keeping the dead close: Bronze Age relics in context - Professor Joanna Bruck
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Keeping the dead close: Bronze Age relics in context - Professor Joanna Bruck
Bodacious.
Interesting but as a layperson I'd have liked a bit more information about what we know about the town as it was and not just info on what the specific digs consisted of. But maybe as excavations have been limited, knowledge about the town is also limited. But, for example I read somewhere that evidence of an amphitheatre was found?
It's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that Academia is so far behind the average CZcams content creator as far as video and audio quality... and they don't seem inclined to address the issues either.
Really interesting thank you. I found the sound levels just fine. Listened on headphones on a dog walk, but even without headphones my mobile was perfectly clear. One tip for the presenter is to set your cursor pointer to a different colour and larger size.
I once had a Papperback DK Eyewitness Book of TUDOR.
Nice job of archeology, must have been a lot of work.
There a massive lost civilisation in the Uk 🇬🇧 grab some stones leave them peal , and read the story 😊
Thank you for such an informative and interesting presentation. I really enjoyed it.
Superb.
From Terence Wise.......Are you sure that this was originally a villa. The outline looks like a Fort to me.
Fascinating but the sound was too low even though my pc was max volume.
Wonderful!
We live next to this henge and it's wonderful to find out more! Can't wait for your research to go further. Best of luck with it.
It is most appropriate that Dr. Richard Buckley first speaks about Philippa Langley. He states that he had never heard of her, but that she came to him with her idea to try and find King Richard III. This is true, and we all can be grateful that Philippa Langley was the first person who had the vision, and plan, to try and find the king. And like Dr. Buckley also said, he was initially more interested in finding one of the medieval religious houses there, and not really looking for a long dead king. Thankfully all of us now know that Philippa Langley actually did find King Richard III, exhume him, scientifically authenticate him, and finally see that he was reinterred with all high honor, dignity, and praise. Thanks to Philippa Langley, for she was the one who brought about this momentous historical find.. She was in that first trench, on the first day, and in the first four hours, when she found the leg bones of King Richard III. Doctor George Whitehead
Fortified road coast to coast to move coal, metal ore and other valuable goods to the ships
My uncle George always told me about this
Interesting and highly challenging but I remain unconvinced by the arguments presented. To raise just one point, among very many - why would a protection on the South side be so necessary when we know such protection did not exist in many (most?) similar wall walks - be they Medieval, Ancient or Renaissance?
Thank you for the education. That was very informative. 🙏
I think the problem is historians like to think of the Romans as Romainers. Nice middle-class English people living in a diverse paradise. Face it. The Romans were brutal armed invaders. And when they collapsed they were replaced by another lot of brutal armed invaders - the Saxons. The original population were like the native Americans - wiped out or sent to the fringes
A very plausible interpretation. I often think the resistance the Romans face in the North was something stubborn and long-term. Guerrilla warfare comprising indigenous warrior bands in the tens to hundreds or even low thousands, akin to the sort of warfare encountered between England and Scotland in better documented times. The Border reiving clans, their skirmishes and raids of the 15th and 16th centuries, spring especially to mind.
Very interesting thank you
In early pictures of the dig buildings we're portrayed with crab claw frontages designed to self ventilation, venturi theory for adding small amounts of a liquid to a much larger amount. The vacuum created by the prevailing wind blowing across the open gap sucks the air out of the building. I see this site as a location of an experimental project to find the right direction to self ventilation for a forge.
Just the sort of thing that fascinates me. Thank you so much for posting!
I’m very sorry that I simply wasn’t able to persist with what I’m sure is an interesting talk as the audio was just dreadful.
I had no idea this would be so interesting. Thanks!
Absolutely astonishing and only 5mins from my front door. Cant wait to see what else you unearth and hope that the local community will get the chance to explore the site (with guidance of course) in the near future. Best of luck
Turn up your recording level!
they gave it to the national trust, but they get to live there! i bet you have to pay for everything too!
I visited here in the late 1970s with my son. We took in the nearby 'Devil's needles, 3 tall standing stones, and were the only people visiting the site. A good job we both had good imaginations to fill in the Roman fort from the visible remains. Glad it is being resurrected.
I clicked 'Like' because it is always good to see a presentation from a genuine expert talking about the latest thinking. But surely, in this day and age, you can do better than 720p definition and achieve at least 1080p? If not better. The slides, pictures etc would be far better to see in higher definition
Thank you for your hard work. The presentation was very interesting.
Scotland was home of earliest man that must have moved from the Middle East - this is when the world was in its infancy
Definitely Folly! :) Though perhaps more humane? Perhaps it simply helped to prevent raiding parties? Roman policy seems to have changed a bit, as previously they would simply go offensively pacify, or wipe out the troubling populations.. instead they began to "hold ground" at their borders. Costly, and less plunder. Hadrian's folly.
Thanks for your work.
I was reminded of the patterns I used to make in the margins of my school/university notepads. They were nearly all made up of random lines, overlying each other as the image evolved. (I annoyed some teachers who assumed that I wasn't listening. 1 actually said she was going to stop trying to catch me out with a sudden question.) Occasionally I would branch out into a representational drawing but pattern making was really satisfying. I am sure I am not alone in doing this.
Is it thought that the structures were abandoned and allowed to collapse undisturbed, rather than be robbed out and the stone re-used?
"Speaking of children,little boys and girls in late 18th/19th,Century, in the search on the London Thames Shore's at Mudlarking;I suggest a 'Drama,with hired child actors/actresses--a few adult men/women characters:The plot,would be to re'enact, the 'History Of The Thames Finds,In London. . ."3--30--2021"
Truly fascinating to see what my ancestors got up to thousands of years ago. My family name is Pope
Thank you for this. I grew up in the village next to Thornton Abbey and it has been wonderful to learn so much about it. Very exciting.
I struggled to make out what Dr Papworth was saying through much of that talk, which rather spoiled it. It was though absolutely fascinating, and I hope the National Trust can scrape together some money to continue the exploration of this site.
The enciphered notebook from Nunnington Hall must have been found, what, ten years ago. Has no-one attempted to decipher its contents? If the code has resisted all attempts to decipher it, I suggest you let GCHQ have a go. Someone there ought to be able to crack the code during their lunch break :)
Peoplle grumbling about the sound quality, I don't know what all the fuss is about. Sure, it could have been better, but I had no problem following what he was saying. And it was sobering to realise that the archaeology of Salisbury Plain is better preserved, despite - or even because of - the Army's presence there, than in most of the rest of lowland Britain, where deep ploughing has ripped up and shredded whatever was under the topsoil.
was Kipling ever a good reference ? An author of the contemporary British empire inspired by fortifications in India and the Great Wall of China ? If the walls were constructed by three different Legions what are the widths in their different sectors ? Military fortifications also change over time. Isn't the real question, "was Hadrian's Wall defensible ?"
St. George fought with the dragon,ultimately slaying it.
Hi Alex, Thanks for sharing this very interesting subject with us all. I have a quick question: At what point in time does Zooarchaeology become Paleontology? The Great Auk finds are very interesting because these were flightless birds (as you know) and would have spent most of their time out to sea. However they needed to come ashore to breed and I believe this is the time of the year when they would have been hunted. This simple fact made them highly seasonal. Hugs, Louie x
Hi Louie, thanks for the kind and constructive words, I appreciate it! The Great Auk finds were super incredible, and such a surprise! I actually do a podcast called ArchaeoAnimals and we just did an episode on palaeontology, which may answer your question in more detail! But basically zooarchaeology is the study of the past starting with the Holocene, while palaeontology is the period of time prior to that. Hence why zooarchaeologists do not cover dinosaurs, and why palaeontologists do not typically cover domesticated dogs, for example!
Great introduction to how is table isotope analysis ties up with archaeological evidence to help unearth info on diets and social structures of ancient societies. Thanks.
Fascinating presentation! I looked around the museum when I was a student there (78 - 81) - it is really quirky and completely fascinating! I suspect some of the exhibits then on show have been removed from display. It is pleasing to see the various objects/copies of objects collected by Grant-Bey and to know of the Aberdeen link to the pyramids at Giza. The Forestry Department used to have experts that would undoubtedly be able to identify both the genus and species of tree that the Mason's Measure came from, using the tiniest slither of wood. You would be able to narrow down the description of "cedar-like wood") Does such expertise still exist there? (I believe Dr Alan Petty is still around and would be able to identify it beyond doubt ...) Perhaps, using dendrochronology, it could be discovered from the few tree rings contained within it exactly what year the tree produced the wood? That would be a long-shot, I guess.
A very interesting presentation. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent presentation, easy to understand, and most interesting. Thanks for your time.