Prof. Dr. Vicki Cummings
Vicki Cummings is Professor of Neolithic Archaeology at Cardiff University. Her research has focused on the start and spread of the Neolithic in Britain, Ireland and north-west Europe. She has a particular research interest in Early Neolithic monumentality, especially chambered tombs, and has excavated sites in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. More recently her work has focused on the Early Neolithic of Orkney as well as Early Neolithic kinship. She is the author of The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland and Monuments in the making: raising the great dolmens in early Neolithic northern Europe (with Colin Richards).
Books by Vicki Cummings
The early Neolithic of Northern Europe
New approaches to migration, movement and social connection
Edited by Daniela Hofmann, Vicki Cummings, Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist & Rune Iversen | Forthcoming
In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice. Some aspects of these practices are similar in both regions,…
