July August 2011 Number 119 Published June 10

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Letters

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

The first invaders

At the movies

Flying over Wales

A Roman villa to save

North Sea shores

Science

Bishopstone & Lyminge

Archaeology for people

Mick’s travels

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Spoilheap

Marlborough Mount, bone heap and what’s been in the news

The cost of treasure and the challenge of archives

David Clarke looks back on a life in Scottish museums

Farmers on the radio, corrections and extra book notes

What happened when archaeologists dated the neolithic

7 great films archaeologists say you should see

Toby Driver looks down on 25 years of archaeological finds

Will Bowden argues the case for Southwell’s unusual villa

Special feature on new art and archaeology of early hunters

Sebastian Payne looks at new ways of examining rock art

Gabor Thomas considers village origins in Sussex and Kent

James Dixon reflects on the April riots in Bristol

Mick Aston goes to west Dartmoor

Hunter-gatherers, modern Britain and Bishopstone

Listings of fieldwork, CBA network and conferences

Don Henson looks at successes and challenges in education

The curious things archaeologists sometimes get up to

FIRST SIGHT Photo shows a detail of 31 Chinese neolithic pots that constitute the artwork by Ai Weiwei, Colored vases (2010), in the UK for the first time. Ai is arguably the world’s most important practising artist, and his controversial use of antiquities is deeply archaeological. He disappeared on April 3, and as we go to press he and four colleagues detained by the Chinese authorities remain uncharged. See Briefing

As archaeologists, with the entire span of culture history as our “laboratory”, we cannot afford to keep our theoretical heads buried in the sand. We must shoulder our full share of responsibility within anthropology. Lewis R Binford, in “Archaeology as anthropology” (American Antiquity 1962), who died on April 11 aged 79

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