Martin Carver
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Martin Carver BSc(London), Dip.Archaeol. (Durham), FSA, MIFA, Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, is 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 work in Europe and for his major research project at Sutton Hoo, on behalf of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries. He is now directing major new excavations on the Pictish monastery of Tarbat, Easter Ross, Scotland.
His previous post was at the University of Birmingham, where he set up the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit (BUFAU), now called Birmingham Archaeology, one of the leading professional archaeological units in Britain, carrying out widespread contracting work.
