In this section we aim to include summaries of current affairs and news clippings, and even interim excavation reports - anything that might interest, provoke debate, or both.
All contributions are welcome.
It now appears that our ancestors were walking bipedally over 2 million years earlier than originally thought. The game appears to be intact with the first two moves apparently made, although there is a mystery in that one side has 11 glass counters and the other has only 10. The gaming board, 50cm by 35cm, was made of wood and had copper alloy corner pieces. The three thousand two hundred year old Dover Boat is being recreated by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust using authentic materials and techniques. Well, just to prove it, beer- making equipment found in a kitchen complex at Tel el Amarna, Egypt, in 1990, was analysed and found to contain traces of emmer and coriander.