British Archaeology, no 14, May 1996


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Contents


News

`Largest Neolithic site' found in central Wales
Romans `in London after conquest'
Neolithc skulls `suggest river-burial'
In Brief

Features

Yes, the Romans did invade Ireland
And we don't need Roman forts as evidence, says Richard Warner

When Romans and natives didn't mix
Simon Clarke finds evidence for a slow pace of Romanisation in North Britain

Searching for the elusive first humans
There was no magic moment when humans evolved, argues Robert Foley

Letters

covering museum storage, the Lancashire SMR, excavation reports, and no cost cutting

Comment

Frances Griffith warns that opportunities for finding sites from the air will be lost this summer

Books

Brita Green on cultured ruffians of the Viking North
Cathy King on Roman soundbites for the well-informed
Debbie Griffiths on monuments as part of the landscape

Obituary

Jacquetta Hawkes

Interview

Simon Denison talks to Penny Stokes


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