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Six academics from the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Remains of a church on Cabo Verde’s Santiago Island, off the West African coast, dates back to late 15th century – when Portugal first colonised the islands that played a central role in the global African slave trade. Archaeological excavations are helping Cabo Verdeans gain new insight into their remarkable and long-obscured history.

A major excavation at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain the meaning and purpose of the enigmatic site.

A new book published by the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Archaeological Unit (CAU) suggests that population density in the later prehistoric / Roman ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ area may have been much higher than previously thought.