title: Martin Bell (archaeologist)
text: # Martin Bell (archaeologist)
  
  Martin Bell FBA is a British archaeologist and academic, who is Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Reading. Bell is a specialist in environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology and coastal and maritime archaeology.
  
  In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * The Mesolithic in Western Britain 2007. York: Council for British Archaeology Research Report 149
  * Late Quaternary Environmental Change (with M.J.C. Walker). Second edition 2005. Harlow: Pearson / Prentice Hall
  * Prehistoric Intertidal Archaeology in the Welsh Estuary 2000 (with Astrid Caseldine and Heike Neumann).
  * The Experimental Earthwork Project 1960-1992. 1996 ( with Peter Fowler and Simon Hillson) York: Council for British Archaeology Research Report 100
  * Past and Present Soil Erosion 1992 (edited with John Boardman). Oxford: Oxbow Monograph 22.
  * Brean Down Excavations 1983-87. 1990. London: English Heritage Archaeological Report 15
  * Wilsford Shaft excavations 1960-62. 1989 (with Paul Ashbee and Edwina Proudfoot). London: English Heritage Archaeological Report 11
  