Sir Barry Cunliffe CBE

Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology

Institute of Archaeology
36 Beaumont St, Oxford, OX1 2PG

phone: 01865 278250

fax: 01865 278254

email: barry.cunliffe@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

European archaeology especially in first millennium BC and early first millennium AD. Focusing on social and economic dynamics and the relationships between the Mediterranean world and 'barbarian' Europe.

Current Activities

Current work is on Atlantic trade systems, cultural interaction and state formation in Southern Iberia and social hierarchies in Central Southern Britain. In addition to a number of site-specific monographs (including Porchester Castle, Bath, Fishbourne, Danebury etc).

 

Publications

  • Facing the Ocean (2001)
  • The Ancient Celts (1997)
  • Wessex to AD 1000 (1993)
  • Iron Age Communities in Britain (3rd edition 1991)
  • Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988)

Edited volumes including:

  • Iron Age Britain (2004)
  • The Extraordinary Journey of Pytheas the Greek (2001)
  • Science and Stonehenge (1997)
  • Social Complexity and the Development of towns in Iberia (1995), (with C. Renfrew)
  • Prehistoric Europe (1994:1997), (with S. Keay)