Portrait of first female Oxbridge professor unveiled
14 November 2019
A new portrait of Dorothy Garrod, Disney Professor of Archaeology 1939-1952, by artist Sara Lavelle has been officially unveiled at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Ancient faeces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites
16 August 2019
‘Coprolites’ from the Must Farm archaeological excavation in East Anglia show the prehistoric inhabitants were infected by parasitic worms that can be spread by eating raw fish, frogs and shellfish.