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• What language tells us about the roots of the stone age diet

  22 Oct 2014: David Shariatmadari: Buzzwords: As a restaurant offering ‘paleo’ food opens in London, can linguistics shed any light on what our ancestors ate?

• Tutankhamun does not deserve this 21st-century desecration

  21 Oct 2014: Jonathan Jones: Computer-scan images of the ‘real’ boy pharaoh are crass and morbid. Archaeological techniques should be used to enhance our understanding of the past, not destroy its mysteries

• Secrets from the Sky review – touring King Arthur’s castle … by drone

  18 Oct 2014: An archaeologist with an octocopter explores Tintagel Castle and surprises a few tourists in this novel take on the history show, writes Sam Wollaston

• Staffordshire hoard research reveals secret of Anglo-Saxon ‘gold’

  17 Oct 2014: Scientists studying stash of ‘warrior bling’ discover use of secret technique which gave lower grade metal the appearance of gold

• Anthropocene: is this the new epoch of humans?

  16 Oct 2014: Geologists, climate scientists, ecologists – and a lawyer – to rule on whether impact of human life on Earth has pushed us into a new epoch

• Viking treasure trove discovered in Scotland

  14 Oct 2014: Retired businessman Derek McLennan found more than 100 objects, including solid gold jewellery, on church land last month

• Mosaic uncovered in northern Greece could mark royal Macedonian tomb

  12 Oct 2014: Archaeologists excavating Amphipolis site have discovered an intricate, and largely intact, floor mosaic dating back to 300BC

• Christine Ball obituary

  12 Oct 2014: Other lives: Librarian who became involved in many groups researching and collecting information on industrial history

• Scientists hope to unravel mystery of the ‘Titanic of the ancient world’

  10 Oct 2014: Third search for truth about sunken vessel near Antikythera island in Greece reveals objects including bronze spear

• In search of archaeological wonders

  7 Oct 2014: Country diary: Birchen Edge, Derbyshire: The moorland and birch scrub is smothered in archaeological wonders – cairns, field systems, tumuli

• If great architecture belongs to humanity, do we have a responsibility to save it in wartimes?

  7 Oct 2014: Jeff Sparrow: Ancient sites exemplify the persistence of our collective culture, our sole consolation for the inescapability of our death. What should be done when such treasures are destroyed?

• Haiti shipwreck is not Columbus’s Santa Maria, says Unesco

  6 Oct 2014: UN researchers find proof that wreck initially believed to have been explorer’s flagship is actually from later period

• John McIlwaine obituary

  28 Sep 2014: Forensic archaeologist with a leading role in the operation to find the bodies of people murdered by Irish Republican paramilitaries

• 'Extinct' cat-sized chinchilla found alive in shadows of Machu Picchu

  26 Sep 2014: Mongabay: Living arboreal chinchilla rat thought to have been extinct is tracked down in Peruvian cloud forests

• Britain’s romance with the ancient Romans

  24 Sep 2014: Natalie Haynes: Archaeologists hope that the public will be able to help with the reconstruction of a temple to Mithras in the City of London, adding another chapter to an enduring affair

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