May June 2022 Number 184 Published April 8

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY FOR OVER 75 YEARS

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From the director News The world in antiquity The new migration Dorstone Hill How to rewild Hazleton North Letters Sharp focus My archaeology Greg Bailey / Phase 2 Books Casefiles Archaeology active Archaeology 8–25 Requiem Spoilheap

Journeys: the 2022 Festival of Archaeology Roman mosaics in London, and ancient Orkney migrations A sacred pool at Motya, and funerary art in Chile Revelations from the largest ancient DNA project to date A monumental Neolithic complex with deep European roots What can archaeology tell us about growing more woodland? The oldest known family tree: patrilineal descent with a twist War in Europe Roman bridge abutment at Chesters fort Rose Ferraby, archaeologist and artist The Real Peaky Blinders Mesolithic Britain and Ireland Former Department Store, Harrogate The Archaeology Audience Network The From Ordinary to Extraordinary awards fund Concluding our feature celebrating archaeological lives The school curriculum may be looking up

FIRST SIGHT A test pit dug during a geophysics survey early in 2020 as part of the Comparative Kingship Project led by Gordon Noble, revealed a classic fifth or sixth century AD Pictish symbol stone (1.7m long), one of only around 200 known. Returning to the site at Aberlemno, near Forfar, after covid delays, archaeologists found 11th- or 12th-century paving, some of which also bore Bronze Age rock art, built over Pictish settlement. Photography University of Aberdeen

What is the purpose of all this new knowledge, if not to reshape our conceptions of who we are and what we might yet become? If not, in other words, to rediscover the meaning of our third basic freedom: the freedom to create new and different forms of social reality? David Graeber & David Wengrow, in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Allen Lane, 2021)

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