History/Archaeology

Crimea, Goths and Archaeology The indigenous people of Crimea are generally regarded as the ‘Crimean Tartars’. But Crimea has older identities than …

In the mid 7th-century someone wrapped 411 objects in a cloth, and buried them in a pit, near what is now the …

I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …

Do we have a submerged ‘Doggerland‘ in New Zealand? In 1950 a boat, the HMNZS ‘Lachlan’ dredged a sample of “lignite” from …

You’d have to really dislike someone to bash a nail up their nose. The day before Wanaka’s Alchemy Cafe closed because of …

So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …

We don’t know what she looked like, because most of her upper body has vanished…. Most of you probably don’t know of …

Tourism – good thing or bad? I’ve written about Develi before –a town in central Turkey, where I was based, along with …

‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …