Come and meet us at the World Archaeological Congress!

Friday 13th June 2025

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June Mills, aka Gudbiling Gunuckinimul

The 10th World Archaeological Congress will take place from the 22nd-28th June 2025 in Darwin, Australia. Antiquity will be exhibiting there, so come along to see our editor, Professor Robin Skeates, and get your hands on some Antiquity swag! More details can be found at WAC-10 – Darwin 22-28 June 2025

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Join us at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting!

Thursday 23rd April 2026

We will be at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California from 29th April-3rd May 2026. Come along to meet our editor, grab some swag and find out how you can publish your research in Antiquity!

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Aerial view of archaeologists excavating human remains in an indoor archaeological site

No great equaliser: young labourers hit hardest by Early Modern plague

Tuesday 14th April 2026

Examination of plague victims from a 17^th century AD hospital in Basel, Switzerland reveals the majority of those who died from the plague were working youths from lower social classes, showing how social status impacted disease mortality in the past just as much as it does today.

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Excavated stone tomb on the shore of a loch

From father to son: Scottish Neolithic tombs were used to trace kinship - including descent

Tuesday 14th April 2026

Ancient DNA analysis of individuals buried in chambered tombs from Early Neolithic northern Scotland finds some were closely related along the male line of descent, indicating paternal relatedness was an important social connection to the first Neolithic people in Britain and suggesting funerary landscapes were monumental signifiers of kinship and group identities.