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DiscoveriesON THE COVER: The pottery menYes, I've been to the British Museum. British archaeology offers you an archaeologist's take on the exhibition that shows how Foster's reading room should really be used.
Did you know that Qin Shihuangdi¹s tomb is reputed to have been built by more than twice as many men as there were soldiers in the Roman empire at its 2nd C AD height? That his mausoleum is ten times the area of the Roman city of London?
The notion that the ceramic faces are not portraits may be unduly influenced by traditional, but more recent concepts of Chinese imagery.
OTHER STORIES INCLUDE
* Offa built a dyke to keep out Wales. Is that it? Offa seized the throne 1,250 years ago in AD757. We look at his achievements, and get up to date on the unique earthwork that came from the era of Beowulf and the burial treasures of Sutton Hoo.
*And what about Watt's dyke? Meanwhile another less well-known dyke in north Wales runs for 65km, but no-one knew who built it. At last scientific evidence has come from a new excavation, dating the dyke to AD792-852, the time of the Mercian kings Coenwulf and Ceolwulf. Last year a gold coin minted by Coenwulf sold for nearly £360,000.
*Lost royal residence found in Hampshire. A hunting house and associated buildings thought to have been used by kings Henry II, Richard I and John are being excavated at Tidgrove Warren Farm. Nothing survives above ground, but a stone-built cellar has been found comparable to those at Henry I's Clarendon Palace.
*Scotland's first people over 12,000 years ago. Two flint arrowheads or spear points found on Stronsay, Orkney are distinctive of late ice age hunters 1310,000BC, evidence for the first settlement of Scotland.
*Interviewing archaeologists. A substantial archive of taped interviews with archaeologists who witnessed the formation of the profession is going online.
*Digging with Ray Mears. Archaeologists who study the British mesolithic our most recent hunter-gatherer era are impressed with the new insights that Ray Mears is bringing to our prehistoric past.
*Tutankhamun disgrace. It's about time the Tutankhamun tomb was properly studied and published that goes even for the famous gold mask. A levy will be charged on visitors to the Dome exhibition opening in November, but none of the money raised by the Egyptian government is to be spent on the boy king.
*Viking hoard latest. Excavation continues of the extraordinary hoard of silver that the finder at first thought was a toilet ball cock.
*Is it because they is slaves? Oxford Archaeology surveyed old slavery plantations on the Caribbean island of Montserrat shortly before its volcano erupted in 1995. An archaeologist returns to one of Britain's last sherds of empire to find that important remains reflecting 17th19th century global transformations are not receiving the respect UK legislation would afford them.
*Angus McBride. A tribute to the late great illustrator.
REGULARS
*Mick's travels. Time Team's Mick Aston goes to the Outer Hebrides. *On the web. Christine Finn's blog of her house excavation, and archaeological science. *In view. Angela Piccini and Karol Kulik consider deception and archaeology on TV. *Books. Early clothing, wild food and modern pagans. We have two copies of this issue's Editor's choice to give away: Cloth & Clothing in Anglo-Saxon. England by Penelope Walton Rogers, published by the CBA at £19.95, and described by our reviewer as a "moving evocation of life in early Anglo-Saxon [England]". See magazine for details. *Letters. Can the orientation of Islamic churches help understand medieval England. *CBA correspondent. Pioneering publication initiatives. *Briefing. The comprehensive events listing, with exhibition news. *My Archaeology. John Romer talks about ancient Egypt.
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