In Search of Cult: Archaeological Investigations in honour of Philip Rahtz

by Martin Carver (Editor), James Bond (Contributor), Ann Woodward (Contributor)

Philip Rahtz's years of tenure at York were marked by substantialdevelopments both within the department and in the larger world of field archaeology. He operated with scholarship and practical energyat both ends of his profession, and now colleagues and associatesgather to honour him in a volume of essays devoted to the archaeologicalsearch for cult - a search now undertaken all the more confidentlyas scientific system is increasingly employed in this vital area ofenquiry. Contributors: Prehistoric: ANN WOODWARD, RICK TURNER, GRAHAMWEBSTER and MARGARET GRAY. Dark Ages: S.M. HIRST, TANIA M. DICKINSON, CATHERINE HILLS, MARK WHYMAN, HENRIETTA QUINNELL, JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, MARKJOHNSON, WARWICK RODWELL and JIM GOULD. Medieval: HEATHER JAMES, ROBERTA GILCHRIST, RICHARD MORRIS, PETER LEACH, PETER ELLIS, GRENVILLE G. ASTILL, SUSAN M. WRIGHT, MICKASTON and JAMES BOND. Modern: HAROLD MYTUM, PATRICIA M. ELLISON, IAN BURROW, RONJ. LAMPERT, ALAN TURNER, LAWRENCE BUTLER and L. WATTS.

234 pages, Hardcover

First published August 5, 1993

About the author

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.