Issue 45/Features/Italy Fieldwalking In 1996, Alastair Small and his wife Carola launched a major fieldwalking project to examine the countryside near Gravina. Focusing on the…
Issue 45/Features/Italy Life and Death at Vagnari Throughout most of Italy, the 2nd and 1st centuries BC were a time of increasing prosperity. Towns sprang up and flourished, while…
Issue 45/Features/Italy Metapontum and Tarentum The fate of the inland cities of Southern Italy depended to a considerable extent on the fortunes of the Greek colonies springing…
Issue 45/Features/Italy Venusia’s supersize colony The Samnites were hardy folk. Living in a region dominated by the Apennine mountains to the southeast of Rome, they proved reluctant…
Issue 45/Travel/Turkey Travelling Turkey To sail the Turkish Coast is to embark on an historical and archaeological adventure that spans over 3,000 years of history. It…
Issue 45/Australia/Travel Govett’s Leap I clearly remember the day in October 1957, when news swept through the Institute of Archaeology in London that Gordon Childe had…
Issue 45/Italy/Travel Postcard from the Asso Valley For years I have directed small armies of excavators through a project manager, so returning to the role of quartermaster (and co-director)…