Summer Course: Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork in the Catalan Pyrenees

10/06/2016

02/06/2016

Maps are everything!

29/05/2016

How cool is that?

On her way to America! Reports from the crew says it is freezing cold and a bit difficult navigating round all the icebergs but stunningly beatiful.

28/05/2016

A team of researchers say the 2,400-year-old tomb was excavated as part of a 20-year exploration of ancient Stagira, where the great philosopher was born in 384 BC, reported the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.

24/05/2016

If you want to live in Bergen https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/125676/4-phd-scholarships-in-medieval-studies

Job title: 4 PhD-scholarships in Medieval Studies (125676), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: 8/1/2016

19/05/2016

Archaeology of the Undead... (not the walking dead eh)
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/zombie-archaeology/483195/

From decapitation to stakes in the chest, gruesome tricks to keep corpses in graves reveal an enduring fear of them rising.

17/05/2016

A list of books about how people in the Middle Ages went about traveling as pilgrims, merchants, royals or just peasants heading for the market

15/05/2016

May open access be the future of scholarly work? Some good stuff is already free and online! http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/med_arch/

Medieval Archaeology journal seeks to support and advance the international study of the period from the 5th to the 16th century AD. While maintaining a special concern for the medieval archaeology of Britain and Ireland, the journal also provides a forum for the discussion of important finds and de...

10/05/2016

This is a sponsored post on behalf of the British Museum

06/05/2016

How did medieval women dress? http://m.phys.org/news/2016-05-medieval-women-men.html

Women in the Middle Ages often wore better quality clothes than men. This is one of the conclusions drawn by Leiden archaeologist Chrystel...

06/05/2016

Why matters? http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/29/looking-back-archaeology

From the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb to the outrage at the destruction of Palmyra, archaeology never ceases to arouse interest

01/05/2016

Last year, Taoiseach Enda Kenny claimed that ISIS wants to destroy Newgrange and the Rock of Cashel. Given Ireland’s lack of regard for its heritage, it’s a wonder we haven’t beaten them to it, writes Donal O’Keeffe. A century ago, in September 1915, the Amesbury Abbey estate in Wiltshire was divide…