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Welcome to the MOLA blog. Explore our latest news, discoveries, stories and content. Our blog posts are created by archaeologists and specialists from across the organisation and cover a range of fascinating and informative topics. Browse our posts using the tags, join in the discussion and share with your network.

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A perfect storm in a tea cup: Archaeology and Britain’s favourite drink

MOLA team
18.04.2018

Today is National Tea Day, where the nation joins together to celebrate the beloved cuppa. But where did our love of tea come from? And what does it have to do with archaeology? Our work is helping to provide some of the answers.

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Gender, pay and archaeology

MOLA team
05.04.2018

Companies that employ 250+ people are declaring their gender pay gap figures to help expose inequalities. We explore our figures and other areas of gender equality in the workplace.

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Are archaeologists putting heritage sites at risk by talking about their work?

MOLA team
19.03.2018

As information sharing becomes ever-easier in our modern digital world: on the internet, across social media, through open-access publications and networks we’re asking: are archaeologists putting heritage at risk by talking about it?

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Ask our Osteologists: Meet Niamh and Elizabeth

Elizabeth Knox and Niamh Carty
08.03.2018

In this blog we speak to Elizabeth and Niamh, two of our dedicated in-house Human Osteologists (human bone specialists) about their fascinating work analysing human remains from our archaeological sites and what this can tell us about women in the archaeological record for International Women’s Day…

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Women in archaeology: A celebration for International Women’s Day

Janet Miller
07.03.2018

To celebrate International Womens Day, our CEO Janet Miller reflects on women in archaeology…

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