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3,000-year-old Irish Bronze Age site may be one of Europe’s earliest ‘town-like’ settlements
A major prehistoric centre in Ireland was among the first large, organised settlements to develop in Western Europe more than 3,000 years ago, new research reveals.
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Brain removal and the burial traditions that connected Iron Age northern Scotland
Examination of two burials from Iron Age north-west Scotland suggests complex funerary traditions spread around the coast, suggesting that the Iron Age dead held a strong and compelling presence in the world of the living that was maintained over long distances thanks to mobility and community connections.
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Profit over protection: state institutions destroy African heritage
Examination of four of Tanzania’s most iconic heritage sites finds they are, in the interest of generating income from tourists, being destroyed by the same institutions tasked with preserving them.