November December 2011 Number 121

Published October 7

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Letters

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

Taking the stage

The waters of Bedford

Science

Bouldnor Cliff

The stones of Brittany

Craig Phadrig

Festival 1951

Mick’s travels

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Spoilheap

Excavations in Kent continue to reveal a new prehistory

Learning from the past, an old road and metal detecting

Time and history pervade Peter Ackroyd’s many books

Mining the Time Team archive

The unexpected origins of community and farming in Jordan

To medieval eyes urban rivers were more than picturesque

When doing the housework, think of future archaeologists

The slow task of excavating a mesolithic site underwater

When neolithic farmers met native hunters, megaliths grew

How to make historic environment records work for everyone

The country looked forward, but never forgot its past

Mick Aston follows the scent of an aristocratic family in Essex

Aerial photography, human origins and Wessex archaeologists

Conferences, meetings, CBA contacts and exhibitions

The Treasure Act needs to change with the times

When PR and extraordinary archaeology intertwine

FIRST SIGHT These are the bones of a teenage girl, who was cremated around 2200–1500BC. They were found by Arthur St John Booth in 1951, in an urn (left) when a road was dug through a burial mound near Amesbury, Wiltshire. After a new study of the unusually complete remains, Jacqueline McKinley laid them out to be photographed by Karen Nichols for Wessex Archaeology. The urn is displayed in Salisbury Museum

Our distant ancestors who lived in caves, experimented with the sounds of stones and pebbles, shells and sticks and gourds and bones, and heard the music of the winds and waves. Poet Wendy Cope, in her new commentary to Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, reminded the audience at the Last Night of the Proms on September 11 that music has a long ancestory

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