front cover Mother Christmas? Dominic Andrews' painting of a Neanderthal woman, all dressed up in her finest furs. Is this what the hominids who scavenged at Lynford Quarry looked like?

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53 Lynford Quarry Rescue excavations in a gravel quarry have revealed a 60,000 years old river channel filled with mammoth tusks, rhino bones, and mint-condition handaxes - a Neanderthal butchery site.

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9 Whittlewood

A new medieval settlements project is under way in the Midlands. The leading historians and archaeologists involved set out their plans, explain their methods, and reveal some early results.

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Verulamium

Ros Niblett sums up several big cemetery excavations at Folly Lane, King Harry Lane, St Stephens and two rich burials recently found outside the town

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Piddington The long-running villa excavation has found a first century 'proto-villa' and a Roman penknife

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Tri-radial Cairns A new type of cairn has just been discovered on the Northumberland moors. Excavations at Ray Sunniside have shown what they were like.

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