A paleoanthropologist reflects on England’s oldest human cranium—and what its changing interpretations say about science.

Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone

Research Report for Woodhenge, Durrington, Wiltshire: Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modelling

A new volume on the Royal Centre at Rendlesham, Suffolk, co-edited by Stuart Brookes and Christopher Scull (UCL Institute of Archaeology), is now available.

For over a quarter of a century the late Neanderthal record of Britain has been considered to relate entirely to a short period between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. This episode of reoccupation is tho...

The Community Archaeology Geophysics Group has been presented with the prestigious Britannia Award by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Slash-and-burn is the dominant strategy for plant cultivation in rural Amazonia yet its antiquity in pre-Colonial times is unclear. Ascertaining both its antiquity and differences compared to modern s...

New research revealed canals used for about 1,000 years to channel and catch freshwater fish on the Yucatán peninsula