Early Thame: Archaeological Investigations at Oxford Road, Thame, Oxfordshire 2015

Chris Ellis is an experienced site director working fro Cotswold Archaeology. He has spent the last 30 years focusing on projects in south and east England. These include leading the team on the A120 Stansted to Braintree and the A46 road schemes; major prehistoric sites in Kent and Cambridgeshire; numerous projects on Salisbury Plain for Defence Estates; and also projects in London, Newbury, Southampton and Salisbury to name but a few.Alex Davies gained his PhD at Cardiff University in 2016 looking at Late Bronze Age and Iron Age society in the Thames Valley. He joined Oxford Archaeology later in 2016 as a Project Officer in the Post-Excavation department and is now a Project manager in the Post-Excavation and Research team. His special interests are all aspects of the Bronze Age and Iron Age. He is also interested in the use of ethnography in archaeological analysis and how we can integrate all parts of the archaeological record to help understand prehistoric societies.Chris Hayden is a senior project manager in the post-excavation at Oxford Archaeology where he manages the final stages of assessments and publication. Chris has worked at OA for over 14 years on projects ranging from an early Neolithic long house in Kent to the world’s first purpose-built office building, Somerset House in London. He has special interests in the prehistoric period, especially the Neolithic and Bronze Age, and in the use of quantitative methods in post-excavation analysis. Chris has a BSc from the Institute of Archaeology in London and a PhD from Cambridge. He has worked on numerous excavations in Britain, France, Germany, Malta and Peru, and lectured for two years at the University of California, Berkeley.