Download Dr John Carman is an archaeologist, Senior Lecturer in Heritage

Dr John Carman is an archaeologist, Senior Lecturer in Heritage Valuation at the Ironbridge International
Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham and a regular presenter at major archaeological
conferences. He has written extensively on issues of archaeological resource management and heritage,
with special interests in issues of value, ownership, and the international comparison of heritage
practices. He has authored in particular the books Valuing Ancient Things: archaeology and law (1996),
Archaeology and Heritage (2002), Against Cultural Property: archaeology heritage and ownership
(2005), and Archaeological Resource Management: an international perspective (2016), co-authored
Archaeological Practice in Great Britain (2011) and co-edited Heritage Studies: methods and approaches
(2009) and The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology (2012).
As an early contributor to the field of Conflict Archaeology, he co-founded the Bloody Meadows Project
with Patricia Carman in 1998. Among many other publications, he is co-author with Patricia Carman of
the book Bloody Meadows: Investigating Landscapes of Battle (2006), sole author of Archaeologies of
Conflict (2013), editor of Material Harm: archaeological approaches to warfare and violence (1997) and
co-editor of Ancient Warfare: archaeological perspectives (1999). He is also co-founder and Convenor of
ESTOC: European Studies of Terrains of Conflict, an international expert group on battlefield
archaeology.
He is the subject of an entry in the Springer Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology (2013) to which he also
contributed the sections on ‘Battlefield Archaeology’, ‘Community Archaeology’ and ‘Legislation in
Archaeology’.