British Archaeology, no 19, November 1996


Contents


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News

`Anglo-Saxon waterfront' discovered at Chelsea
County archaeology heads into crisis
Earliest house found at `oldest village'
In Brief

Features

Finding magic in Stone Age real ale
The first farmers may have grown barley to brew ale. Merryn Dineley reports.

When penance continued in the grave
Medieval graves often contained symbolic artefacts, writes Chris Daniell

And then came clothing and speech
In the second of two articles, Mark Roberts describes the origin of the first Europeans, and argues they were more advanced than we thought

Letters

covering Scottish treasure, Wroxeter doubts, Egyptian drugs and a front cover query

Comment

Richard Morris on opposing the ruin of all we stand for

Books

Peter Davenport on old news revisited about Roman Bath
Mike Parker Pearson on The Hebrides at the centre of the map

Obituary

Stuart Piggott

Essay

Simon Callery reflects on time that links archaeology and painting


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