For my third and final column on the Palaeolithic, I will clamber into some of the most famous caves in the country. Even ...

Exploring landscapes of power in early medieval East Anglia Over the last two decades, evidence of a high-status early ...

The turning of the year is always a point to pause and reflect. For me, this issue marks a mindful milestone, as it is my ...

Below are some of the publications we feel most deserve to be recognised for their contribution to the field – the nominees for the Book of the Year award.

Rescue archaeology is carried out in areas threatened by human or natural agency. We’ve collated some of the best rescue projects that have been highlighted in Current Archaeology over the past year.

Below are the three individuals nominated for 2026’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’, whose achievements reflect the diverse work taking place within our field. Voting is now open, and all the winners of ...

The Current Archaeology Awards celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding contributions to ...

Did ‘the Anglo-Saxon migrations’ take place, and were Romano-British leaders replaced by those of Germanic descent? Susan Oosthuizen’s new book, The Emergence of the English, is a call to rethink our ...

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 ...

The Snettisham treasure was first discovered in 1948. The field was being ploughed deeper than usual, and in the course of ploughing the ploughman discovered an interesting lump of metal. He took it ...