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To celebrate the start of a new academic year here at Southampton, we have launched a new website to showcase some of our bioarchaeology, palaeopathology and osteology research. Continue reading →

Today is (apparently) International Left Handers Day…. There are few lefties among the Archaeology staff… Prof Jon Adams (our UG admissions tutor) for one – he is usually recognizable when diving as the only left handed underwater archaeologist (just see the films of the excavation and lifting of the Mary Rose). More famously (?) Leonardo da Vinci was a leftie. So why is this? Population-level right-handedness is a defining characteristic of being human. Continue reading →

Today is (apparently) International Left Handers Day…. There are few lefties among the Archaeology staff… Prof Jon Adams (our UG admissions tutor) for one – he is usually recognizable when diving as the only left handed underwater archaeologist (just see the films of the excavation and lifting of the Mary Rose). More famously (?) Leonardo da Vinci was a leftie. So why is this? Population-level right-handedness is a defining characteristic of being human. Continue reading →

Today is (apparently) International Left Handers Day…. There are few lefties among the Archaeology staff… Prof Jon Adams (our UG admissions tutor) for one – he is usually recognizable when diving as the only left handed underwater archaeologist (just see the films of the excavation and lifting of the Mary Rose). More famously (?) Leonardo da Vinci was a leftie. So why is this? Population-level right-handedness is a defining characteristic of being human. Continue reading →

Are you ready to join us? Did you get your place with us? We’re really looking to seeing you soon!  If you got your A-level grades, we’re really pleased that you’re going to be joining us in September. Let’s hope that it is with better weather than today! If you didn’t get the A level results you wanted, don’t panic! Archaeology still has a few places for suitable candidates. Continue reading →

Are you ready to join us? Did you get your place with us? We’re really looking to seeing you soon!  If you got your A-level grades, we’re really pleased that you’re going to be joining us in September. Let’s hope that it is with better weather than today! If you didn’t get the A level results you wanted, don’t panic! Archaeology still has a few places for suitable candidates. Continue reading →

Are you ready to join us? Did you get your place with us? We’re really looking to seeing you soon!  If you got your A-level grades, we’re really pleased that you’re going to be joining us in September. Let’s hope that it is with better weather than today! If you didn’t get the A level results you wanted, don’t panic! Archaeology still has a few places for suitable candidates. Continue reading →

Waiting for your A-level results? Good luck! We’ve got our fingers crossed for you and hope that you get the results that you hoped for. In the meantime, while you’re waiting for your results, why not read our departmental summer newsletter? Find out what everyone has been up to in Artefact here: Artefact_2015_Summer. Continue reading →

  Fig. 1: Gun carriages salvaged from Gribshunden on display at Blekinge Museum (photo by Mattias Mattison, adopted from Svensson 2015). Introduction Within the sheltered waters of Ronneby archipelago near the island of Stora Ekön, southeastern Sweden, lies the remains of a rather disjointed but well-preserved wooden wreck. The wreck, previously known as the Stora Ekö or Ekö wreck, was already discovered by local sport divers in the 1970s. Continue reading →