Of course, it’s that time of year when parents, who may be teachers and vice versa, are looking for things to do with bored, restless and...

Back in January BBC Radio 4’s History of Ideas broadcast a piece by Dr Matt Pope of University College London in which he explored the...

Here’s the second in our occasional series of what archaeologists actually do, beyond excavating. You might want to look at What do...

The subject of cannibalism in prehistory is one that has rumbled on in archaeological circles for quite some time and it has recently...

Archaeologists are, of course, very interested in the things that people in the past made, used and eventually disposed of. We have just...

You might think that finding information on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic of the area you live and work in might be difficult....

As you might well imagine, over the course of almost a million years the environment in what we now call Britain has changed...

So, as promised in our last post about teaching prehistory in KS2, here we go into more detail about the Palaeolithic – just what you’ve...

The day has something for everyone who wants to know more about art in prehistory. There are short talks from 6 leading experts in the...

Teaching ‘Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’ is now required as part of KS2 History curriculum in England. For many...

What a wonderful day we had in Cheshire! Armed with our trenches, tools and artefacts, Dr Ian Parker Heath (trusty archaeologist husband...

At the end of my prehistoric archaeology workshops, teachers often say to me that they have learned as much as the children have. Of...

After delivering a workshop covering the Stone Age to Iron Age to Y4s at St Andrews CE Primary School in Levenshulme in October, the...

Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...

I love delivering Archaeology Days, because Archaeology Days allow time for me to really develop children’s interest and enable them to...