According to the publishers, the 10th birthday issue contains: Editor in Chief – and founder – Andrew Selkirk flicks back through the last 60 issues to look at the digs and discoveries that have shaped our opinion of our past. But what of the future? A panel of eminent archaeologists share their thoughts, not only on the last ten years, but also on what we can expect in the next.
The future of archaeology has arrived at Çatalhöyük in Turkey. This phenomenal Neolithic site is witnessing a technological revolution as an international team of archaeologists pioneers 3D scanning and modelling: read how cyber archaeology is changing the way future excavations will be recorded and assessed.
Cutting edge technology is making its mark on Egyptology: CWA reveals how kit used by bomb disposal units is helping to save the Step Pyramid of Djoser; while hospital MRI scanners are revealing what mummies are hiding beneath their shrouds.
Ten years before CWA was launched, Richard Hodges (President of the American University in Rome) visited the idyllic site of Butrint, Albania, and the Butrint Foundation was born – followed by 20 years of excavation. Forty years ago America’s best selling archaeological writer Brian Fagan needed a text book, so he wrote one. Today it is a stalwart on every archaeology student’s bookshelf. And 40 years before that the irrepressible cartoonist Bill Tidy – archaeology’s funny man – was born.
In our travel section we explore Iraqi Kurdistan and Serbia; our book reviews consider the latest releases; and we reveal the ‘must-see’ exhibition of the season.
Current World Archaeology reports on news, research and excavation around the world, and is read by professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts.
