Martin Bell

Martin is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading where he has worked since 1997. At Reading he taught Geoarchaeology, Coastal and Maritime and Experimental Archaeology.  A particular research focus for the last 32 years has been the prehistory of the Severn Estuary on which he has published four monographs which, with current fieldwork, provide the basis of this day school contribution. A current focus is on Mesolithic research in the Severn Estuary and Kennet Valley. He also has a project on Experimental Archaeology and the formation processes of the archaeological record and is part of as team writing up an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Sussex. He is author, with M.J.C. Walker, of Late Quaternary Environmental Change: physical and human perspectives, 2nd edition 2005. His most recent book is 2000 Making One’s Way in the World: The footprints and trackways of prehistoric people. Oxford: Oxbow.  He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the British Academy.