Archaeology International Volume 28 published

The latest issue of Archaeology International (Vol 28, 2025), published by UCL Press, highlights the breadth of research and activity of staff and students at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in Bloomsbury, as well as contributions from researchers elsewhere. 

The issue opens with an editorial by Andrew Reynolds, alongside the Director’s View from Kevin MacDonald, which reviews key events and appointments over the past year. Readers will also find a curated bookshelf of recent publications, a global perspective on the Institute’s work around the world, alumni reflections, and archival highlights. An obituary remembers the contributions of Johan Du Preez (1957–2025), marking the lives and work of colleagues and friends.

Research Articles

• Piecing together past human encounters with death: a theory and practice of the archaeology of death (The Gordon Childe Lecture for 2025)
• Ritual re-representation and the making of sociality: rethinking elite burials in the Late Shang Yinxu
• Coding the carved: the development of a coding system for inventorying stone-carved graves in Pakistan
• Following the fish? Using ichthyoarchaeology to study the tempo and geography of human dispersals through Island Southeast Asia
• Unnamed, uncaptioned: archaeological photography and colonialism at Jericho, as seen in the Kenyon Archive
• Reuniting The Gang: Georgiana Aitken and Emma Benson at UCL

Reflections, Notes and Field Reports

• Seeding and branching out: sixty years of a laboratory for plants in archaeology
• Middle Bronze Age longhouses at Heybridge, Maldon, Essex
• The Institute of Archaeology Field School 2025: new light on the Roman villa at Alpheton, Suffolk
• Of hillforts and heritage crimes: investigations at Hanbury, Worcestershire, in 2025
• Of battleships and horseshoes: seriation, multivariate statistics and the interpretation of coin hoards

Published annually since 1997, Archaeology International combines news about the Institute of Archaeology and ASE research and global activities with original reports from the field. 

UCL Press, the UK’s first fully open-access university press, ensures all issues can be downloaded freely as PDFs or read online anywhere in the world.