Un Profesor Emérito de Arqueología, este autor se especializa en el período de la Europa medieval temprana. Es internacionalmente reconocido por sus excavaciones, que fueron pioneras en nuevos métodos tanto en técnicas de excavación como de prospección. Su investigación ha profundizado significativamente nuestra comprensión de la vida y los asentamientos de la Alta Edad Media en toda Europa y más allá. Es una figura destacada en el campo, celebrado por sus contribuciones a la arqueología de la Europa medieval temprana.
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.
An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD
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.