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Martin Carver

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#2210

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Archeology

#498

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#694

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According to Wikipedia, Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and survey. He specialises in the archaeology of early Medieval Europe. He has an international reputation for his excavations at Sutton Hoo, on behalf of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries and at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack Tarbat, Easter Ross, Scotland. He has undertaken archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria.

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Martin Carver's Published Works

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Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? (1998) (72)
On archaeological value (1996) (66)
A framework for assessing cumulative effects in watersheds: An introduction to Canadian case studies (2013) (64)
The cross goes north : processes of conversion in northern Europe, AD 300-1300 (2003) (52)
Excavating a parchmenerie : archaeological correlates of making parchment at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack, Easter Ross (2005) (43)
The York Gospels: a 1000-year biological palimpsest (2017) (41)
Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts (2008) (34)
Why that? Why there? Why then? The politics of early medieval monumentality (2001) (33)
Three Saxo-Norman Tenements in Durham City (1979) (32)
Underneath English Towns: Interpreting Urban Archaeology (1987) (29)
Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness: Changing Ideologies in North-East Scotland, Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD (2016) (27)
An Iona of the East: The Early-medieval Monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat Ness (2004) (25)
Making Archaeology Happen: Design versus Dogma (2016) (20)
Stable Isotope Evidence for Dietary Contrast Between Pictish and Medieval Populations at Portmahomack, Scotland (2014) (20)
The Age of Sutton Hoo : the seventh century in north-western Europe (1995) (20)
Early Scottish Monasteries and Prehistory: A Preliminary Dialogue (2009) (18)
Digging for ideas (1989) (16)
Agency, Intellect and the Archaeological Agenda (2010) (15)
Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited (2010) (15)
Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited (2010) (15)
Diagnosis of headwater sediment dynamics in Nepal’s middle mountains: implications for land management (1997) (13)
In search of cult : archaeological investigations in honour of Philip Rahtz (1993) (12)
FORTY FRENCH TOWNS: AN ESSAY ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE EVALUATION AND HISTORICAL AIMS (1983) (11)
A Tropical Rainforest Site in Belize: Field Archaeology from Around the World: Ideas and Approaches (2015) (11)
Chemical evidence for the persistence of wine production and trade in Early Medieval Islamic Sicily (2021) (9)
Development and application of a peak-flow hazard model for the Fraser basin (British Columbia). (2009) (9)
V. Contemporary Artefacts Illustrated in Late Saxon Manuscripts (1986) (9)
Commerce and Cult: Confronted Ideologies in 6th–9th-Century Europe (2015) (8)
Anglo-Saxon objectives at Sutton Hoo, 1985 (1986) (6)
Theory and practice in urban pottery seriation (1985) (6)
Environment and economy in Anglo-Saxon England : a review of recent work on the environmental archaeology of rural and urban Anglo-Saxon settlements in England : proceedings of a conference held at the Museum of London, 9-10 April 1990 (1994) (6)
Coastal Erosion and the Archaeological Assessment of an Eroding Shoreline at St Boniface Church, Papa Westray, Orkney. By Christopher Lowe. 310mm. Pp xvi + 215, 184 ills., 52 tables. Stroud: Sutton Publishing (for Historic Scotland), 1998. ISBN 0-7509175-5-5. £35.00. (2000) (5)
Archaeology journals, academics and Open Access (2007) (5)
New insights into early medieval Islamic cuisine: Organic residue analysis of pottery from rural and urban Sicily (2021) (5)
Development of a low-flow hazard model for the Fraser basin, British Columbia. (2009) (5)
Bronze Age pottery (and a spindle whorl). In M. Carver, J. Barrett, J. Downes and J. Hooper : Pictish byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993–5 (2012) (5)
Formative Britain (2019) (5)
Sicily in transition : new research on early medieval Sicily, 2017-2018 (2019) (5)
Sicily in Transition Research Project. Investigations at Castronovo di Sicilia. Results and Prospects, 2015 (2016) (5)
The York Gospels: a one thousand year biological palimpsest (2017) (4)
S. Maria foris portas at Castel Seprio: A famous church in a new context (1987) (4)
What were they Thinking? Intellectual Territories in Anglo‐Saxon England (2011) (4)
Central Interior Ecoregional Assessment: Freshwater Analysis (2011) (4)
Witchcraft and Deep Time–a debate at Harvard (2010) (4)
Overview: Signals of Power (2011) (3)
Bulletin of the Sutton Hoo Research Committee (1983) (3)
Portmahomack (2016) (3)
Lost, found, repossessed or argued away – the case of the Picts (2011) (3)
Valutazione, strategia ed analisi nei siti pluristratificati (1983) (3)
Intellectual Communities in Early Northumbria (2011) (2)
Sequenza insediativa romana e altomedievale alla Pieve di Manerba (BS) (1982) (2)
Commodities carried in amphorae AD 600-1200. New research from Sicily (2018) (2)
Sicily in transitionInterim report of investigationsat Castronovo di Sicilia 2016 (2018) (2)
Sicily in Transition Research Project. Investigation at Castronovo. Results and Prospects (2016) (2)
Two town houses in medieval Shrewsbury : the excavation and analysis of two medieval and later houses built on the town wall at Shrewsbury (1983) (2)
Medieval archaeology: families and freedoms (2014) (1)
Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness (2019) (1)
Architects and artisans (2008) (1)
Sutton Hoo - An Archaeography (2011) (1)
Early Medieval, AD 400 to 1000. (2013) (1)
The best we can do? (2011) (1)
The Sutton Hoo Story: Encounters with Early England (2017) (1)
Archaeology: What is it for (2010) (1)
Travels on the sea and in the mind (2014) (1)
Editorial (2004) (1)
Editorial (2005) (1)
Birgit Arrhenius & Uaininn O'Medhra (ed.). Excavations at Helgö XVIII: conclusions and new aspects. 214 pages, 170 illustrations, 7 colour plates, 6 tables. 2011. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien; 978-91-7402-401-2 hardback SEK250. (2012) (0)
Editorial (2004) (0)
Editorial (2008) (0)
Book reviews (2013) (0)
Aftermath: St Colman's Church (2008) (0)
Editorial (2005) (0)
Carvers and thinkers (2008) (0)
On the trail of music: origins of the Scottish triple pipes; On the trail of folk furniture: a Highland heritage shared across the seas; The North Sea Highway: cultural arena or political barrier. (1995) (0)
Narratives – reflections – legacies (2019) (0)
The Medieval Europe Research Committee (MERC) (2014) (0)
AQY volume 85 issue 329 Cover and Front matter (2011) (0)
Digest 5 | Catalogue of Sculpture (2019) (0)
Chapter 1: The Late Iron Age, Pictish, Medieval and Later Settlement at Portmahomack (2016) (0)
Evaluation and Project Design (2013) (0)
Appendix 4: Original Early Medieval Period Working Group Document The Early Medieval Period (2010) (0)
AQY volume 85 issue 330 Cover and Front matter (2011) (0)
Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj A. Makarov & Evgenij N. Nosov (ed.). The archaeology of medieval Novgorod in context: studies in centre/periphery relations. xxviii+500 pages, 158 illustrations, 46 tables, CD. 2012. Oxford & Oakville (CT): Oxbow; 978-1-84217-278-0 hardback £ 60. (2012) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Digest 6: Catalogue of diagnostic artefacts (2016) (0)
What we found (2008) (0)
Wearmouth and Jarrow. Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape. ByTurner Sam,Semple Sarah andTurner Alex. 250mm. Pp xix + 244, ills (some col), maps, plans.University of Hertfordshire Press,Hatfield,2013.ISBN9781909291133. £20 (pbk). (2014) (0)
Sequence and Date (2015) (0)
Serving new masters (2008) (0)
List of contributors to the Central Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference Session, Birmingham, December 2011: (2012) (0)
Editorial (2008) (0)
Digest 1 | Archaeological Interventions at Portmahomack (2019) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
SICILY AND ENGLAND: (2020) (0)
Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Excavations and Surveys 1824–1992 . By William Filmer-Sankey and Tim Pestell. 300mm. Pp xiv plus 277, 151 figs, 58 pls, tables. Ipswich: East Anglian Archaeology 95, 2001. ISBN 0860552640. £23.50. (2003) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
Editorial (2009) (0)
Designing the expedition (2008) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
Projects galore: Integrated Field Research (2013) (0)
Mound-building and State-building : a poetic discourse (2016) (0)
Living and Dying at Auldhame, East Lothian: The Excavation of an Anglian Monastic Settlement and Medieval Parish Church, By Anne Crone and Erlend Hindmarch, with Alex Woolf (2018) (0)
Rosemary Cramp. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Volume VII, South-West England . xviii +446 pages, 29 figures, 565 plates, 3 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy; 0-19-726334-8 hardback £65. (2007) (0)
Chapter 6: Trading Farm (Period 3, c AD 800 - c AD 1100) (2016) (0)
Editorial (2005) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
2 | Description of the Investigation (2019) (0)
AQY volume 85 issue 328 Cover and Front matter (2011) (0)
Chapter 3: The Outcome (2016) (0)
Ideological Transitions in Pictland (2016) (0)
Working from home (2019) (0)
Preface (2021) (0)
Publication in Field Archaeology (2020) (0)
AQY volume 82 issue 317 Cover and Front matter (2008) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Chapter 4: Foundations (Periods 0-1, to c AD 680) (2016) (0)
Seven Ages of Britain: The Story of Our Nation Revealed by Its Treasures (2010) (0)
Field Method in Archaeology: Overview (2020) (0)
Graham Connah. Writing about archaeology. xiv+210 pages, 31 illustrations. 2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-86850-1 hardback £50 & $88.99; 978-0-521-68851-2 paperback £16.99 & $24.99. (2011) (0)
Digest 9 | Table of Contents of Online Archive (2019) (0)
Ritual landscape, with portage (2008) (0)
Digest 2: Index of periods, structures and churches (2016) (0)
Editorial (2009) (0)
7 | Medieval Township (Period 4, c 1100 – c 1600) (2019) (0)
Archaeology, monasticism and Romanitas in northern Britain (2008) (0)
Materiality in words (2019) (0)
The prehistoric pottery from the ring-ditch and linear ditch. In: M. Gondek and G. Noble, The land before symbol stones: a geophysical survey of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, and the excavation of a Middle Bronze Age structure near the Craw Stane, Barflat (2015) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
Editorial (2005) (0)
Digest 8: Monuments and place-names on the Tarbat peninsula (2016) (0)
KEY ELEMENTS OF B IODIVERSITY IN BR IT ISH COLUMBIA : SO ME EXAMPLES FROM THE TERRESTRIAL AND FRESHWATER AQUAT IC REALM (2007) (0)
The monks arrive (2008) (0)
5 The Pictish Monastery (Period 2, c AD 700 – c AD 800) (2019) (0)
Editorial (2009) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Editorial (2004) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
Looking for personhood (2019) (0)
Editorial (2004) (0)
On the Streets: Archaeologists and Society (2016) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
Excavating Burials in Anglo-Saxon England (2015) (0)
Welcome to Portmahomack (2008) (0)
A holy place in history (2008) (0)
Editorial (2008) (0)

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Underneath English towns: interpreting urban archaeology