January February 2012 Number 122

Published December 9

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Letters

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

London’s origins

Local authority cuts

Making lists

Ancient modernity

Science

Russian archaeology

No ordinary career

Embroidering history

Mick’s travels

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Spoilheap

What happens when archaeologists dig up hoards

Where did the British neolithic come from?

Artist Grayson Perry sets sail in the British Museum

Into the past with both feet

Who created London? And why? The city reveals its past

Don’t shoot the counsellors

A word from English Heritage

Dating Europe’s first modern humans

Spotting a winner

Heinrich Härke reports on kurgans, politics and sprit

An archaeological experiment in rehabilitating the wounded

What the Nazi party made of the Bayeux Tapestry

Mick Aston searches for the less visited in Brittany

History of ancient Britain, castles and Thomas Hardy

CBA contacts, lectures, meetings and exhibitions

Highlights from the year’s listed building casework

The country that banned metal detectors

FIRST SIGHT This scene of Britons fighting off Italians (the outcome being centuries of occupation, to which many still date the beginning of British history) is a detail from a large marble frieze by John Deare (1759–98). Caesar Invading Britain (1791–96) was a private commission from William Penn’s grandson, and remained little seen until bought in October by the V&A (photographed by Stephen James at Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd)

As the scientists have now shown, if you go back far enough we are all, in a sense, non-indigenous. I find this fact reassuring. Abdal Hakim Murad on “Thought for the day”, BBC Radio 4 Today, November 8 2011

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