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Natural England has shared a fantastic collection of resources on nature, as well as joining us for an evening with Natural England archaeologists, and more. You can access all these for free below.

Archaeologists rarely find a complete skeleton; bones scatter, decay, and go missing long before they're ever excavated. This activity lets you experience that challenge firsthand: reconstruct real animal skeletons from their disarticulated parts, then see if you can do it when several animals are mixed together.

Just like a map needs north, south, east, and west, a skeleton needs its own set of directional terms, otherwise "the bone above the knee" means something different depending on which way the animal is facing. This short resource gets you fluent in the language zooarchaeologists use to describe where something is.

Every animal bone tells a story — but only if we know how to read it. This resource follows that story from the moment a bone leaves the ground to the moment it helps answer a bigger question about our understanding of the past. The pipeline is divided into four stages, at excavation, followed by post excavation and in the lab, to integrating information. Each entry defines key ideas, highlighting their importance, and providing prompts for you to reflect on.

In this activity you will learn how to create your own 3D models of artefacts using open access software. This activity was created by Benjamin Steward, CBA Youth Advisor.