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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 51, February 2000

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Contents

News

From Iron Age toilet to early 'Rayburn': all mod cons in prehistoric Shetland
World's first farming found in Near East
Minerva figurine found in London well
The man, the grave and the antique arrow: Bronze Age warrior found clutching heirloom
Wine 'fresh' after 300 years
Viking house tainted by unlucky death: did the owner fall down a rabbit hole?
Major new rock art discovered in Cumbria
In Brief

Features

Odd man out: Neanderthals and modern humans
New research shows that Neanderthals were far more sophisticated than was thought ten years ago. Still modern humans wiped them out in the end. Paul Pettitt reports.

Return to the Sanctuary
In a tale of espionage, forgotten diaries and missed evidence from earlier excavations, Mike Pitts offers a new interpretation of the mysterious Sanctuary at Avebury

Great sites: Bignor Roman villa
Martin Henig returns to the site that first proved the wealth and sophistication of late Roman Britain

Letters

covering experimental work, old boundaries, locating 'Beowulf' and listed buildings

Issues

Conservation versus change? Archaeology can help society balance the two goals, writes George Lambrick

Peter Ellis

Books

Stonehenge fiction by Richard Lee
After the Romans by Roger White
Neolithic revised by John Gale
Saxon trading by Alan Vince
Kilmartin House by Graham Ritche
Neolithic Europe by Niall Sharples

CBA update

Favourite finds

I blame the champagne: Mick Aston recalls the day he stumbled on a deserted medieval village


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