# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-carver
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:07:47.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-carver"
name: "Martin Carver"
slug: "martin-carver"
description: "Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and survey. He specialises in the archaeology of early Medieval Europe. He has an international reputation for his excavations at Sutton Hoo, on behalf of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries and at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack Tarbat, Easter Ross, Scotland. He has undertaken archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria."
tagline: "British archaeologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.36
  momentum:             0.7744107744107744
  historical:           5.278186666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://martincarver.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Martin Carver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارتن كارفر"
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    title: "مارتن كارفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Martin Carver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carver"
    title: "Martin Carver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carver"
    title: "Martin Carver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump