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Welcome to another episode of Tides of History.

It is wonderful to have you all here and thanks for joining me.

There has never been a more exciting time to study prehistory.

Archaeologists are still excavating as they've done for generations, but they have more

tools than ever before to understand that people whose lives are reflected in the material

record from so long ago.

But there's no division between the new tools, everything from ancient DNA to stable isotopes

to paleoenvironmental studies and the old.

Applying those new tools depends on the quality and quantity of dirt and travel archaeology

that provides the materials on which cutting edge studies are based.

For that reason, the European bronze and iron ages are ground zero for the sophisticated

application of those new tools.

There are so many great archaeologists working in Europe, many of whom we've had the pleasure

of talking with on this show, with access to sufficient resources, on collections of

sites and bodies of evidence accumulated over centuries, that we can ask and answer the

kinds of questions that are just impossible elsewhere.

Few people better embody those exciting trends than today's guest.

Professor Ian Armit is chair in archaeology at the University of York.

He has extensive experience conducting field work in France, Sicily and Scotland, and

has worked on a wide variety of periods and topics in European prehistory.

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