Six Cambridge academics elected to prestigious British Academy fellowship
20 July 2018Six academics from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Earliest church in the tropics unearthed in former heart of Atlantic slave trade
06 November 2015Remains of a church on Cabo Verde’s Santiago Island, off the West African coast, dates back to late 15th century – when Portugal first colonised the islands that played a central role in the global African slave trade. Archaeological excavations are helping Cabo Verdeans gain new insight into their remarkable and long-obscured history.
Inside Britain’s biggest Iron Age fortress
01 September 2011A major excavation at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain the meaning and purpose of the enigmatic site.
Revolutionising the understanding of the early social fabric of Cambridge
09 January 2009A new book published by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) suggests that population density in the later prehistoric / Roman Cambridge area may have been much higher than previously thought.
