Professor Helena Hamerow

M.A., D.Phil., F.S.A.
University Lecturer in European Archaeology (Early Medieval), Professor of Archaeology

Institute of Archaeology

Email: helena.hamerow@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Dr Hamerow has published on the rural settlements and buildings of early medieval Europe and more generally on the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England.

Supervision Interests

The archaeology of northwest Europe between c AD 400-1000.

Selected Publications:

• Mucking Excavations II: The Anglo-Saxon Settlement. (London, 1993)
• 'Migration Theory and the Migration Period' in Building on the Past. (1994)
• (ed.) Europe Between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Recent Archaeological Research. . (Oxford, 1995)
• (ed.) Migrations and Invasions in Archaeological Explanation . (Oxford, 1997)
• 'Angles, Saxons and Anglo-Saxons: rural centres, trade and production', Studien für Sachsenforschung. Vol 13 (1999) pp. 189-206
• Early Medieval settlements: The archaeology of rural communities in Northwestern Europe, AD 400-900. (Oxford, 2002)

Future Publications:

• 'Intensification of agrarian production in Mid Saxon England' in Post-Roman Towns and Trade in Europe, Byzantium and the Near-East. (Berlin - New York, 2006)

Research Interests and Activities

• Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages