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This volume provides a detailed study of the archaeology of Britain and its inshore islands between AD 400 and 1100. For the first time a single-author book treats early medieval Britain as a whole, enabling Carver to show that the primary cultural, political and ideological foundations of the island's population were laid during this time.

Explores the procedures used in field archaeology travelling over the whole process from discovery to publication. Divided into four parts, this book: argues for a set of principles, describes work in the field, shows how to write up, and, explains the modern world in which all types of archaeologist operate, academic and professional.

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Who wants archaeology? Who should pay for it? Who should do it? And how? Making Archaeology Happen is an attempt to answer these questions - campaigning for a more liberated, imaginative and productive field profession.

An accessible, higher-level introduction to a key selection of continental European thinkers from Spinoza to Zizek. Covering 'classical' exponents of the tradition such as Hegel and Marx, 'moderns' like Gramsci and Habermas and 'postmoderns' like Lacan and Deleuze, the volume introduces the main ideas of each thinker and reflects on their enduring theoretical relevance. The impressive breadth and contemporary angle make this a unique, up-to-da...

Who wants archaeology? Who should pay for it? Who should do it? And how? Making Archaeology Happen is an attempt to answer these questions - campaigning for a more liberated, imaginative and productive field profession.

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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 ...

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37 studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process.

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.

The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant finds ever made in Europe. It lies in a burial ground which contains all the elements of archaeological mystery: seventeen mounds, buried treasure, and sacrificed horses. In this very accessible book, Martin Carver explains what we know of this site, at which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signalled the pagan and maritime nature of their court. This is the story not ...

The newest research on a major Anglo-Saxon site paints a vivid picture of the beginnings of England.

Explores the procedures used in field archaeology.