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Mike Pitts

The Spectator

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Was Easter Island less isolated than we previously thought?

07.07.2025 5

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

We finally know what an ancient species of human looked like

20.06.2025 5

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

The remarkable quest to identify Captain Cook’s Endeavour

17.06.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

The impossible politics of ‘ancestral remains’

14.06.2025 5

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

How Cornwall led Europe into the Bronze Age

07.05.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

The significance of the Melsonby hoard

30.03.2025 9

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Why is Australia reburying ancient human remains?

25.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Were the builders of Stonehenge black?

04.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

I can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud

There are many reasons to be excited about the dinosaur footprints whose discovery was announced last week. They will bring new understandings to...

05.01.2025 40

The Guardian

Mike Pitts

The mystery of Stonehenge's long-lost megaliths

Around 4,500 years ago, the famous silhouette of Stonehenge would have looked very different. Writer and archaeologist Mike Pitts digs up clues to...

22.12.2024 100

BBC

Mike Pitts

How was the Stonehenge Altar Stone moved from Scotland?

I’ve had a keen interest in Stonehenge since I directed my first excavation there more than 40 years ago. A personal highlight was identifying a...

18.08.2024 3

The Spectator

Mike Pitts