‘Around the Ancient World in 22 Journals’: The global reach of Cambridge’s open access publishing in Archaeology
Cambridge is proud to publish Archaeology journals that span every region of the world and all periods of history

Cambridge is proud to publish Archaeology journals that span every region of the world and all periods of history

In the 2021 Netflix film The Dig, Peggy Piggott was portrayed as a young woman of moderate skill, very much stumbling into archaeology.…

In Late Iron Age Scandinavia, roughly 500-1100 CE, increasing numbers of people started going to the grave with animal companions. As a general rule, the higher a person’s station in society, the more animals they were likely to take with them, and in a higher diversity of species.…

Sometimes archaeologists are forced to study what they can identify, even when they recognize that it is not representative. One instance of this concerns burials of people who died of plague during the Black Death in the mid-14th century and later outbreaks.

As each generation of researchers deconstruct and unpack their own preconceptions of the world around them, it reveals new shortcomings in our understanding of the past.…

The Viking Age (c. AD 790-1050) represents the very notion of uprootedness and social transformation. Yet there are signs of inherent nostalgia in Scandinavian Viking Age communities; hundreds of rune stones scatter the landscape with tales of genealogies and memories, and older burial mounds are reused for new graves.…

Hobby metal detecting for archaeological objects is a contentious issue, not least in Europe. Especially since the 1990s, the activity has increased in popularity in many places with little prospect of this reversing.…

Ran Zhang, of Durham University, discusses his recent paper ‘A Chinese Porcelain Jar Associated with Marco Polo: A Discussion from an Archaeological Perspective‘.…