Description
About the Author
Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester. His research interests focus on medieval, post-medieval and contemporary mortuary archaeology, archaeologies of memory and the history of archaeology. His fieldwork includes Project Eliseg, investigating the context of the Pillar of Eliseg (Denbighshire, Wales). Howard has published over 70 book chapters and journal articles as well as edited books, most recently Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape (Boydell and Brewer, 2015) and he is Honorary Editor of the Archaeological Journal (2013-2017) and his monograph is titled Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain (CUP, 2006). Melanie Giles in an expert in the British and northern European Iron Age, specialising in funerary archaeology as well as Celtic art and artefacts. She is the author of 'A Forged Glamour: Landscape, identity and material culture in the Iron Age' (Windgather Press) and the forthcoming 'Bog Bodies: Face-to-face with the past' (Pen & Sword Press).
Reviews
Howard Williams and Melanie Giles have produced a book that will be of interest to professionals and general readers alike. * Jo Appleby, Times Literary Supplement *
[a] thought-provoking book ... The breadth and rigour of analyses, from fieldwork to museum displays ... offer plenty of food for thought. * Current Archaeology *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198753537
Author Howard Williams
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 946g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm * 29mm