British Archaeology, no 28, October 1997


Contents


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News

Three Mesolithic houses discovered near Avebury
Oldest occupation site in East Scotland
Skeletons reveal brutality of warfare
In Brief

Features

High living in Rome's distant quarries
Rome saw to it that the imperial quarry workers remained happy, writes Marijke Van der Veen

Uncovering an Anglo-Saxon `royal' manor
Finds from Flixborough have shed new light on the rich Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey, writes Chris Loveluck

Letters

covering storytelling, the first farmers and Welsh archaeology

Comment

Why peat extraction must be stopped, by Richard Morris

Books

Stephen Rippon on peeling back the layers of landscape
Nick Ashton on the popular version of Boxgrove's story

Obituaries

Robert Kiln by Clive Partridge
Alan Hannan by Glenn Foard

Essay

Simon Denison reports on the Young Archaeologists' Club on its silver anniversary


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