Producers, Traders, and Consumers in Urban Societies in Southern Britain and Europe: post-excavation and museum studies presented to Professor Mark Brisbane

This article is from Current Archaeology issue 426

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REVIEW BY ANNE THOM

This book was written to honour Professor Mark Brisbane with up-to- date and historical analysis of archaeological records, sites, and museum studies that have interested him across his long career. As is the case with many amalgamated texts, readers will find some chapters more relevant than others, depending on their own areas of interest.

The early chapters focus primarily on medieval Hampshire and Dorset, with particular focus given to pottery and its importance for analysing trade and production, before turning to focus on early medieval Southampton and Winchester. Chapters on zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical studies are broad-spectrum and far-ranging, analysing evidence from early medieval Bedfordshire, Winchester, Antwerp (Belgium), and Novgorod (Russia), while chapters on craft and industry include medieval to post-medieval workshops of Kyiv, salt ‘ships’ in Cheshire, and pottery kilns in southern England.

Overall, this book provides several good starting points for a broad range of European archaeological and museum studies.

Producers, Traders, and Consumers  in Urban Societies in Southern Britain and Europe: post-excavation and museum studies presented to Professor Mark Brisbane
Mark Maltby and Deborah Hodges (eds)
Archaeopress, £40
ISBN 978-1803279237