“Taken together, the evidence paints early medieval England as a place of constant change. People arrived from near and far, stayed for a time or settled permanently, and shaped the social fabric ...

DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early ...

For several years, Cambridge University’s archaeology department has partnered with the local charity Cambridge Past, Present ...

For centuries, popular history has framed early medieval England as a land reshaped by a handful of dramatic invasions – Romans departing, Anglo-Saxons arriving, Vikings raiding, Normans conquering.

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places and at different rates, a study finds. The researchers found early medieval ...

Researchers give medieval Cambridge residents the 'Richard III treatment' to reveal hard-knock lives of those in the city during its famous university's early years. Study of over 400 remains from a ...

A hoard of early medieval gold coins discovered by two people with metal detectors is the largest of its kind ever found in England, reports Nadia Khomami for the Guardian. Buried in what is now West ...

Very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Vikings settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more meat than other people, a major new bioarchaeological study suggests. Its ...

(CREDIT: Medieval Archaeology) The team analyzed more than 700 chemical signatures from skeletal remains found in early medieval cemeteries across England. These data were paired with ancient DNA from ...