About the Author

Richard Hodges, formerly Director of the British School at Rome, is Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, and Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation (Butrint is the site of extensive excavations in Albania). He is series editor of the Duckworth Debates in Archaeology series and author of many books, including Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement and Villa to Village.