Julian Richards

Julian Richards is Professor of Archaeology and Head of Department at the University of York. His direct involvement in archaeological computing began in 1980 when he undertook a PhD on pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon burial ritual using the computing power of an ICL mainframe and an early Z80 micro-computer. Since 1996 he has been Director of the Archaeology Data Service and Co-Director of the e-journal Internet Archaeology. His other research interests focus on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. He has excavated Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlements at Wharram Percy and Cottam, and a Viking cemetery at Ingleby. He is author of Viking Age England, now in its third edition, and of OUP's Very Short Introduction to Vikings.