Just opened at The British Museum (BM) is Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art. This is the first major exhibition of sculpture...

One of the metaphorical things about archaeology is that archaeologists like to put real things into categories so they can make sense of...

Just a little video to highlight some of the work I do with Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield. I appear about 8 seconds in, wearing ...

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

If you go down to the woods today you could be in for a surprise, well at least if you go into Grin Low woods in Buxton. For while the...

Down in South Devon a team of local enthusiasts and volunteers have just completed a two week excavation of a site which looks as if it...

Its getting to that time of year when we begin to look around to what’s going to be happening in the archaeological world over the summer...

KS2 pupils and teachers are just so lucky – they get to study heaps of interesting things in the History curriculum. One of these can be...

Norfolk, quiet rural backwater right? Nothing much ever happens there . . . if only that were true! After last week’s story of the...

Hot on the heels of our Palaeolithic pt 2 blog comes what will be the biggest and oldest news of the week. It comes from Ethiopia where...

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

We try our best here at Enrichment to stay out of controversy, but we’ve just heard on Radio 4 that ISIS are bulldozing Nimrud the...

On the face of it, finding wheat DNA from a sample dated to 8,000 years ago shouldn’t be so exciting. After all, people had been growing...

A muddy field in Norfolk, in December, in the cold and wet might not sound promising but this did not deter Tom Lucking. A first year...

Here at Enrichment Through Archaeology, a good deal of out time is spent focusing on the prehistory of Britain. This is not to say that...