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CUCAP as inspiration for Syrian artist working in Cambridge.

AMS sample provides an Aurignacian date for Britain. The artefact and its implications are discussed.

Considers the integration of archaeological theory with practice, such as it is, using work for BAA in the vicinity of Heathrow during 1998 and 1999 as an example.

A complex statistical analysis of 14C dates from European Neanderthal and Early Modern humans has enabled important new understanding of how and when this major population change took place. This data allows the debate on the end of the Neanderthals to continue on what is thought to be firmer ground.

A potentially very important and comparatively neglected source of information in debates about the nature of the Early Neolithic period in Northwest Europe is human skeletal material. A new project is concerned with issues of population diversity, lifestyles and ancestral rites.