Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, CBE,FBA,FSA (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British
archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the
University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an
emeritus professor.
In 1966, he became an unusually young professor when he took the chair at the newly founded Department of Archaeology at the
University of Southampton. There he became involved in the
excavation (1961–1968) of the
Fishbourne Roman Palace in
Sussex. Another site in southern England led him away from the Roman period. He began a long series of summer excavations (1969–1988) of the
Iron Agehill fort at
Danebury,
Hampshire and was subsequently involved in the Danebury Environs Programme (1989–1995). His interest in Iron Age Britain and Europe generated a number of publications and he became an acknowledged authority on the
Celts.
The Roman Occupation, Introduction, Cumberland and Westmorland, The Buildings of England,
Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth: Penguin (1967)
Roman Hampshire, Introduction, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth: Penguin (1967)
The Roman Occupation, Introduction, Worcestershire, The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth: Penguin (1968)
Roman Kent, Introduction, North East and East Kent, The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth: Penguin (1969)
Fishbourne: A Roman Palace and Its Garden (1971), (updated ed., Stroud: Tempus, 1998)
ISBN978-0-75241-408-9
Cradle of England: An Introduction through Archaeology to the Early History of England and a Brief Guide to Selected Sites in the South, London:
British Broadcasting Corporation (1972)
ISBN0-5631-2197-1
The Regni in the "Peoples of Roman Britain" series Ed.Keith Brannigan, pub. Duckworth (1973)
ISBN0-7156-0699-9
Iron Age Communities in Britain (1974)
ISBN0-7100-8725-X (4th edition, Jan 2005)
Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500 Oxford University Press (2001)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe (2001)
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek: The Man Who Discovered Britain (2001), Walker & Co;
ISBN0-8027-1393-9 (2002 Penguin ed. with new post-script:
ISBN0-14-200254-2)
Les Fouilles du Yaudet en Ploulec'h, Côtes-d'Armor. Volume 1: Le Site, Le Yaudet, dans L'Histoire et la Legende with Patrick Galliou, Oxford School of Archaeology (2004)
ISBN9780947816599
England's Landscape: The West (English Heritage 2006)
Les Fouilles du Yaudet en Ploulec'h, Côtes-d'Armor. Volume 2: Le Site, de la Prehistoire, a la Fin de L'Empire Gaulois with Patrick Galliou, Oxford University School of Archaeology (2006)
ISBN978-0-95496-270-8
Les Fouilles du Yaudet en Ploulec'h, Côtes-d'Armor. Volume 3: Le Site, du Quatrieme Siecle apr. J.-C. a aujourd'hui with Patrick Galliou, Oxford University School of Archaeology (2007)
ISBN978-0-95496-272-2
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC – AD 1000, Yale University Press (2008)
ISBN978-0-30011-923-7
Celtic from the West 2: Rethinking The Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe editor with
John T. Koch, Oxford: Oxbow Books (2013)
ISBN978-1-84217-529-3
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia, Oxford University Press (2015)
ISBN978-0-19968-917-0
Le Yaudet en Ploulec'h, Côtes-d'Armor: Archéologie d'une Agglomération, IIe siècle av. J.-C. – XXe siècle apr. J.-C. with Patrick Galliou,
Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2015)
ISBN978-2-75354-174-0
Celtic from the West 3: Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages – Questions of Shared Language editor with John T. Koch , Oxford: Oxbow Books (2016)
ISBN978-1-78570-227-3
On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500, Oxford University Press (2017)
ISBN978-0-19875-789-4
Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics editor with John T. Koch, Oxford: Oxbow Books (2019)
ISBN978-1-78925-088-6
Sark: A Sacred Island? volume 1: Fieldwork and Excavations 2004–2017 with Emma Durham, Oxford University School of Archaeology (2019)
ISBN978-1-90590-546-1
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe, Oxford University Press (2019)
ISBN978-0-19882-012-3
Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity, Oxford University Press (2021)
ISBN978-0-19885-162-2
Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa, Oxford University Press (2023)
ISBN978-0-19285-888-7
Video interview Prof Cunliffe describes the East Gate at Danebury hillfort.
Breton, Britons, Celts and King Arthur Podcast in which Cunliffe discusses prehistoric links between Brittany and the British Isles (published 26 May 2021).