The three most recent issues of Archaeology in Greece have looked at the preliminary data that has been published on the ‘remarkable decade’ of discoveries from all over Greece spanning the Athens Olympics of 2004. As this material has begun to be absorbed in summary form, and has been made available to readers via AGOnline, the range of chapters included in this issue of AG, which covers reports made available in 2013–2014, turns in a more consciously thematic direction.

This change of emphasis has also been enabled by a redesign of the format and style of AG. Our aim is to make the content more accessible, as well as easier to absorb. We hope that it will be more attractive, too. The Newsround section is an innovation intended to provide readers with a quick survey of important developments that are not otherwise referred to in other chapters of this year's copy. In her View from Greece, Catherine Morgan refers to a number of recent developments that we hope to cover in future editions of AG. These include conference reports and other publications on the Ionian and Aegean islands, and on the countryside of Attica. As contributors to AG, we hope that the selection of news items, alongside the thematic and regional reports, will give readers a clear idea of the range of new developments in Greek archaeological field research.