Een Emeritus Hoogleraar Archeologie, deze auteur is gespecialiseerd in de vroege middeleeuwse periode van Europa. Hij is internationaal bekend om zijn opgravingen, die nieuwe methoden introduceerden in zowel opgravings- als onderingstechnieken. Zijn onderzoek heeft ons begrip van het vroegmiddeleeuwse leven en de nederzettingen in heel Europa en daarbuiten aanzienlijk verdiept. Hij is een toonaangevende figuur op dit gebied, gevierd voor zijn bijdragen aan de archeologie van vroegmiddeleeuws Europa.
Before 1996, no one assumed Portmahomack held a key to the understanding of the mysterious Pictish world. This book develops the interpretation of a prime Pictish settlement site in north east Scotland, along with chapters exploring Iron Age, Medieval and European contexts of the settlement.
Focusing on the archaeology of Britain and its inshore islands from AD 400 to 1100, this volume presents a comprehensive analysis of early medieval Britain as a unified entity. The author, Carver, explores how this period established the cultural, political, and ideological foundations that shaped the island's population, offering fresh insights into the significance of archaeological findings in understanding Britain's early history.
Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the communities within which they work. While insisting on the highest levels of investigation, we celebrate the different designs, concepts, scientific detection methods and recording systems applied - so embracing standards, but not standardisation. The book is organised in four parts: Part 1 offers a summary of field procedures. Part 2 reviews the principal methods applied, above and below ground, and how the results are analysed. Part 3 illustrates the huge variety confronted by field workers with a series of exemplary commercial and academic projects enacted in downland, jungle, desert, permafrost, road schemes and towns. Approaches also differ according to the traditional methodologies that have evolved in particular countries. In Part 4 we give examples of some the strongest and oldest of those practised on four continents.
A definitive account of Sutton Hoo, its discovery, history and famed treasure.