British Archaeology, no 8, October 1995


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Contents


News

Medieval arm bones lend support to left handers
Council cuts put archaeology at risk
`Best year ever' for air photography
In Brief

Features

Before the first woodland clearings
What did Britain's original, natural forest look like? Tom Clare explains

Money for Rome's naval secrets
Roman coins show home Rome used her navy, writes John Orna-Ornstein

From modern apes to human origins
Apes and monkeys provide models for hominid behaviour, Simon Denison reports

Letters

covering the Disability Bill and an arrogant review

Comment

The road that could ruin Stonehenge
The Government is not listening over Stonehenge, writes Peter Addyman

Why are archaeologists not reading? by Mike Heyworth

Books

Diana Chatwin on more than a few plain old timbers
Jeffrey May on everything from everyone on the Celts
Grenville Astill on the landscape of Alfred's Wessex

Obituary

Grahame Clark

Interview

Simon Denison talks to Peter Ucko


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