Discussions at the recent archaeometallurgy conference in Bradford in honour of Gerry McDonnell have resulted in the creation of an email list for those (like me) interested in archaeometallurgy in Ireland. Click "Read More" below for a more complete...

This is the first in a series of videos just uploaded to YouTube that nicely demonstrate a number of Scandinavian flint knapping styles. 

Apparently the Ordnance Survey in the UK are planning on making all of their mapping data available free online next year. It will be interesting to see how its made available - formats, downloadability etc It would certainly be nice if the OSI...

The County Kildare Archaeological Society has recently produced a DVD containing every volume of the society's journal from 1891-2007. A huge and incredibly useful resource for archaeologists, historians and many others. The DVD was launched by Cllr...

I've been away in New Zealand taking a break from all that is Archaeology so Archnews has slipped a bit. Considering that this is likely to happen quite frequently I have decided to make it a roughly monthly post - making it more of a trip down...