It's time to announce the dates for this year's CPD days for teachers. We are offering two workshops this year - Prehistory in the Peak...

Of course, it’s that time of year when parents, who may be teachers and vice versa, are looking for things to do with bored, restless and...

As we hit summertime, well in theory anyway, archaeologists up and down the country can be found out doing what most people think they do...

Back in January BBC Radio 4’s History of Ideas broadcast a piece by Dr Matt Pope of University College London in which he explored the...

The subject of cannibalism in prehistory is one that has rumbled on in archaeological circles for quite some time and it has recently...

Archaeologists are, of course, very interested in the things that people in the past made, used and eventually disposed of. We have just...

You might think that finding information on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic of the area you live and work in might be difficult....

Hot on the heels of our Palaeolithic pt 2 blog comes what will be the biggest and oldest news of the week. It comes from Ethiopia where...

As you might well imagine, over the course of almost a million years the environment in what we now call Britain has changed...

The day has something for everyone who wants to know more about art in prehistory. There are short talks from 6 leading experts in the...

What a wonderful day we had in Cheshire! Armed with our trenches, tools and artefacts, Dr Ian Parker Heath (trusty archaeologist husband...

At the end of my prehistoric archaeology workshops, teachers often say to me that they have learned as much as the children have. Of...

After delivering a workshop covering the Stone Age to Iron Age to Y4s at St Andrews CE Primary School in Levenshulme in October, the...

Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...

I love delivering Archaeology Days, because Archaeology Days allow time for me to really develop children’s interest and enable them to...