Martin Carver: 3 books
by Martin Carver
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Drawing its numerous examples from Britain and beyond, Archaeological Investigation explores the procedures used in field archaeology travelling over the whole process from discovery to publication.
Divided into four parts, it argues for a set of principles in part one, describes work in the...
Formative Britain
An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian...
Making Archaeology Happen
Design versus Dogma
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
‘Archaeology is for people’ is the theme of this book. Split between the academic and commercial sectors, archaeological investigation is also deeply embedded in the needs of local communities, making it simultaneously an art, science and social science. Such a multi-disciplinary discipline needs...