Made in the autumn of 2019 by filmmaker Nick Edwards, this short film “Ouse-side Barrows and Fishing Weirs: Palaeochannel Archaeology at Over/Needingworth” follows the Cambridge Archaeological Unit’s (CAU) excavations in Hanson Aggregates ’ Needingworth Quarry. The land is being restored as an RSPB bird reserve, and is...

Medieval Greenlanders may have chased dwindling walrus herds ever farther north in an effort to maintain their economy, when the value of walrus ivory tanked after the introduction of elephant tusks into European markets in the 1200s.