Martin Millett
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Martin John Millett BA, DPhil, FSA (born 30 September 1955) is currently the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Professor Millett is a world-renowned archaeologist who currently excavates a Roman-period site in Yorkshire (with Peter Halkon), directs the Roman Towns Project (with Simon Keay and the British School at Rome), and directs the Greek Colonization and Archaeology of European Development project. Professor Millett has profoundly changed Romano-British archaeology by implementing and calling for new approaches to the excavated materials.
Professor Millett is also a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, a fellow of the British Academy, and a director on the council of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He previously was at the University of Durham. Professor Millett obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford.
[edit] Select Bibliography
- 1990 The Romanization of Britain: an essay in archaeological interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (Paperback edition issued 1992)
- 1995 Roman Britain (UK; English Heritage/Batsford) (Second edition 2005)
- 1995 (with J. M. Carreté and S. J. Keay) A Roman Provincial Capital and its Hinterland: the survey of the territory of Tarragona, 1985-1990 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series no. 15)
- 1995 (edited with J. Metzler, N. Roymans and J. Slofstra) Integration in the Early Roman West: the role of culture and ideology (Dossiers d'Archéologie du Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art IV, Luxembourg)
- 1999 (with P. Halkon) Rural Settlement and Industry: studies in the Iron Age and Roman archaeology of lowland East Yorkshire (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Roman Antiquities Section monograph no. 4)
- 2001 (edited with J. Pearce and M. Struck) Burial Practice in the Roman World: contextual studies (Oxford: Oxbow Books)
- 2001 (edited with S. T. James) Britons and Romans: advancing an archaeological agenda (York: Council for British Archaeology Research Report 125)
- In press Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire: archaeological studies of a Romano-British roadside settlement (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Roman Antiquities Section monograph)
- 2005 (with S. Keay, L. Paroli, and K. Strutt) Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome (British School at Rome Monograph)
