The Melsonby Hoards: rerouting the evidence for vehicles in Iron Age Britain Our article for Antiquity provides the first overview of the Melsonby Hoards, probably the largest deposit of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the…

The Melsonby Hoards are "probably the largest deposit of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain"!

In an #AntiquityBlog, Tom Moore and Sophia Adams discuss the hoards' exciting discovery and the next steps for research and display in the Yorkshire Museum 🏺

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Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off…

Did you miss Antiquity authors Benjamin W. Roberts and R. Alan Williams on #DiggingForBritain yesterday? No problem! You can catch up on BBC iPlayer at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... or go straight to the source in their #AntiquityBlog: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off…

The next episode of #DiggingForBritain is tonight and features Antiquity authors Benjamin W. Roberts & R. Alan Williams on their excavations of the Bronze Age tin trade at St. Michael's Mount!

Can't wait? They wrote on their findings in an #AntiquityBlog 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age Benjamin W. Roberts and R. Alan Williams discuss their archaeological investigations at St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, long thought to have been Ictis, the tin trading island described by Pytheas the Greek in c. 320 BC in the earliest written account of Britain.

Enjoying the latest series of #DiggingForBritain? Antiquity authors appear in an upcoming episode, exploring the Bronze Age tin trade that connected Britain to the East Mediterranean!

They wrote about it in the latest #AntiquityBlog, available to read 🆓 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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St. Michael's Mount : a tidal island on which stands a castle.

Research in Antiquity last year explored how tin from Britain shaped the European and Mediterranean Bronze Age. Now, excavations at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall have found evidence for tin trading ports. The authors write about it in the latest #AntiquityBlog

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Forging a Bronze Age City: The Next Chapter at Semiyarka Recent excavations and analysis at Semiyarka uncover even more exciting information about this early urban centre of the Kazakh steppe

You may have seen the recent #ProjectGallery on Semiyarka: a Bronze Age permanent settlement on a scale previously unknown for the Eurasian steppe! 🏺
In our latest #AntiquityBlog, the authors discuss the first excavations there & next steps for the research:
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How climate change is threatening Indigenous Yup’ik heritage « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog On 12 October, 2025, Typhoon Halong reached the shores of Southwestern Alaska, with devastating consequences for many of the Indigenous communities living here. Whole villages were destroyed and…

Antiquity author Charlotta Hillerdal discusses the damage to the site in more detail, and the overall threat of climate change to Indigenous Alaskan heritage in our latest #AntiquityBlog

How climate change is threatening Indigenous Yup’ik heritage « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog On 12 October, 2025, Typhoon Halong reached the shores of Southwestern Alaska, with devastating consequences for many of the Indigenous communities living here. Whole villages were destroyed and…

Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology.

Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺

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As well as the tragic destruction of many Southwestern Alaskan villages, Typhoon Halong has damaged the archaeological site of Nunalleq: a rich source of precontact Yup'ik #Archaeology
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog

As well as the tragic destruction of many Southwestern Alaskan villages, Typhoon Halong has damaged the archaeological site of Nunalleq: a rich source of precontact Yup'ik #Archaeology
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog

Daniela Vargas Ariza, stood with her hands in her pockets, smiling towards the camera.

Meet Daniela Vargas Ariza, whose recent Project Gallery on the shipwreck of the San José Galleon has been making a splash in the press! 🏺

Check out her #AntiquityBlog exploring the research and the importance of seeing past simplistic ideas of 'sunken treasure' 🆓 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Into the Heart of the San José Galleon: Where Gold Meets Archaeology « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog Many sites around the world have been harmed because they were targeted for profit rather than for research. When objects are valued mainly for their economic worth, we miss out on the reach and…

Often remembered for legends of sunken treasure, the San José galleon wreck is more valuable for what it can teach us about the past.

Explore the importance of targeting archaeological sites for research rather than profit in the latest #AntiquityBlog:

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Title of the blog (Kach Kouch, Morocco: shedding light on late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa) and aerial photograph of the site, located on a hill next to a river running through a hilly landscape to the coast.

Was the Maghreb marginal in relation to other regions of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean? Absolutely not! Antiquity author Hamza Benattia from @ub.edu explores the long-neglected importance of the region in the latest #AntiquityBlog

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