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Your comments, complaints, and compliments 8 NEWS
Burning questions at Dun Deardail; Highland housing in the Mesolithic; Never a dull moment: the lives of Early Bronze Age axes; Bronze Age barrow discovered in Cornwall; Reading the painting on the wall; Science notes; Deciphering the Anglo-Saxon diet; Finds tray 14 COMMENT
Joe Flatman excavates the CA archive 16 CONTEXT
Grand designs: Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
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CULTURE
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The Hidden Bones; Writing and Power in the Roman World: literacies and material culture; Cave Canem: animals and Roman society; Along Prehistoric Lines: Neolithic, Iron Age, and Romano-British activity at the former MOD headquarters, Durrington, Wiltshire; Roman Record Keeping and Communications; 50 Finds from Staffordshire
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Settlers: genetics, geography, and the peopling of Britain at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History 60 CALENDAR
Our selection of exhibitions and events 62 OPINION
Think differently: think Archaeology! 64 SHERDS
Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues 66 ODD SOCS
ON THE COVER The central panel of Fishbourne's Cupid on a Dolphin mosaic
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British Arachnological Society
Roman Palace/Sussex Archaeological Society
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How a Roman palace and its gardens came to light Fishbourne at 50 FiFiFiFshshshsboururourourone at e at e at ne at ne at n 5050 Fishbourne at 50
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Embracing the Palaeolithic ❙
Celebrating unusual scheduled sites
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Viking memories at Coppergate
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