Vicki CummingsVicki 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 monumenality, 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). Read More Read Less