Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, FBA (born 8 July 1941) 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 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.
[10] From 1986, Carver presented four episodes of the BBC 2 documentary series Chronicle (British TV programme),[11] which looked at his work at Sutton Hoo and also explained technological developments in archaeology.
In the episode first broadcast 16 August 1989, Carver went aboard Edda, a replica of the Viking Oseberg Ship, which promptly sank, and the incident became a favourite anecdote in his public lectures.
[13] On St Andrew's Day 2011, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Hon FSA Scot).