Martin Carver 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.
12 Facts About Martin Carver
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Martin Carver has undertaken archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria.
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Martin Carver was educated at Ladycross School, a Catholic preparatory school in Seaford, East Sussex, and then Wellington College, a private school in Crowthorne, Berkshire.
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Martin Carver was promoted to lieutenant in January 1963, and to captain in July 1967.
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Martin Carver practised as a freelance archaeologist, setting up the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit, later called Birmingham Archaeology at the University of Birmingham to carry out archaeological contract work.
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Martin Carver was the first secretary of the Institute of Field Archaeology, now Institute for Archaeologists.
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Martin Carver has developed a number of procedures for archaeological investigation and analytical methods for writing up excavations, and has championed evaluation and project design as key elements in "value-led" archaeology.
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Martin Carver has served on UK, British, Irish, Danish and European research councils.
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Martin Carver was editor of the world archaeology journal Antiquity from 2002 to 2012, personally editing some 800 articles.
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Martin Carver is a director of The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company, which aims to build a full-size and seaworthy replica of the Anglo-Saxon ship found in Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo.
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From 1986, Martin Carver presented four episodes of the BBC 2 documentary series Chronicle, which looked at his work at Sutton Hoo and explained technological developments in archaeology.
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On 8 January 1981, Martin Carver was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.