British Archaeology Magazine

7 October 2020

A rock that holds the story of humanity: our new cover shows a flint nodule rebuilt by archaeologists from the debris left when someone made a flint knife – its shape can be seen from the hollow it left. This is part of the extraordinary evidence for how a group of people butchered a horse at Boxgrove, West Sussex, 480,000 years ago. We tell the story of the dig, of what was found, and how archaeologists pieced it all together to gain unique insights into early human behaviour. Also featured are archaeologists in a World War Two propaganda movie, an Anglo-Saxon hall newly built in Oxfordshire, and the search for the grave of an unjustly hanged man. With new columns including a review of archaeology around the world and all our usual regulars, this is a packed edition of the UK’s best archaeology magazine.