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Landscape Project on the Isle of Man and Chairman of the Directors of the Cotswold
Archaeological Trust. His publications include Ancient monuments in the countryside and Prehistoric
Britain from the air.
Simon Esmonde Cleary teaches archaeology at the University of Birmingham, principally
on the Roman period in Europe. His research interests centre on the transition from the ‘high’
Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and the early mediaeval period; including the ways in which
these are reflected in the archaeological record and how this affects our perceptions. His
publications include The ending of Roman Britain. He is currently undertaking fieldwork on the
Roman and mediaeval town of St-Bertrand-de-Comminges in south-western France.
Roberta Gilchrist is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, and archaeological
consultant to Norwich Cathedral. Her research focuses on the archaeology of medieval England
(particularly buildings and church archaeology), and on the study of gender in the past. Her
publications include Gender and material culture: the archaeology of religious women (Routledge: 1994)
and Contemplation and action: the other monasticism.
Bill Hanson is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and is a former
President of the Council for Scottish Archaeology. His research interests include Roman Britain,
particularly the impact of the conquest on the indigenous population and on the landscape,
Roman frontiers in the western empire and aerial reconnaissance. He is co-author of the standard
text on the Antonine Wall—Rome’s north-west frontier: the Antonine Wall.
Colin Haselgrove is now a Professor of Archaeology at Durham University, where he has
taught since 1977. His research interests include the Iron Age of Britain and France, particularly
coinage; the Roman impact on indigenous societies; and field survey techniques. He recently coedited
Reconstructing Iron Age societies.
Catherine Hills has been a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University
for many years, where she is currently Head of Department. Her main interests are Anglo-Saxon
archaeology, Europe and Scandinavia in the first millennium AD and the relationship between
history and archaeology. She has excavated the Anglo-Saxon cemetery of Spong Hill in Norfolk,
the reports on which are published in the series East Anglian archaeology.
Steven Mithen is Reader in Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. Between 1988 and
1998 he directed the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project and is currently a co-director of an
Early Prehistory project in south Jordan. He has particular research interests in the use of computer
simulation in archaeology, and cognitive archaeology. His books include Thoughtful foragers: a study
of prehistoric decision making and The prehistory of the mind. He is editor of Creativity in human evolution
and prehistory (Routledge: 1998).
Mike Parker Pearson lectures in archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He was previously
an Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage. His current fieldwork projects include
the excavation and survey of Early Bronze Age to nineteenth-century settlements on South Uist
in the Western Isles, the study of funerary monumentality in southern Madagascar, and the
excavation of a Neolithic rock shelter burial site near Sheffield. He is author of Bronze Age
Britain.