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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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Queering the archaeological record: gender identities in 5th-7th century burial

Cecilia Levratto Francese
30.06.2020

In this blog, MOLA Archivist Cecilia Levratto Francese shares why we should avoid thinking about gender in a binary way when we interpret burial evidence from the 5th – 7th centuries…

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A joint effort: understanding kneecaps past and present

Emma van der Velden and Christian Steven Hoggard
01.04.2020

Researchers from the University of Southampton recently visited MOLA to record 58 patellae, as part of their project to generate models to improve sex classification scores in osteology.

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MOLA specialist appointed as Field Archaeologist in Residence at University of Cambridge

MOLA team
22.01.2019

We’re delighted to be sending another member of our team to take up the position of Field Archaeologist in Residence at the University of Cambridge.

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The Medieval Mystery of the Booted Man in the Mud

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
04.12.2018

A mysterious male skeleton, lying face-down deep in the Thames mud, with a pair of in-situ thigh-high leather boots has been discovered by our MOLA Headland archaeologists working on one of the sites being used to build London’s super sewer in Bermondsey.

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Full steam ahead for HS2 archaeology programme

MOLA Headland Infrastructure
31.10.2018

HS2's archaeology programme is the largest archaeological project to have ever taken place in the UK. Over 1,000 specialists are working across 60 sites along the 150 mile route. The project is an unprecedented research opportunity.

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