Carenza Rachel Lewis is a British archaeologist who became famous as a result of her appearances on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Time Team is a popular and populist Channel 4 television series dealing with archaeology, first shown in 1994. ...

Educated at the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) as a field archaeologist for Wessex. During part of her time with the RCHME she was seconded to the History Department of the University of Birmingham to research the relationship between settlement and landscape in the East Midlands. She followed this with a similar project for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Since 1999 she has been teaching archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ... Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England. ... The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. ... Hampshire (abbr. ... The Isle of Wight is an island off the south coast of England, opposite Southampton. ... Full name The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cambridge Motto There is a toast, Floreat antiqua domus (May the old house flourish), from which the colleges nickname, Old House, is derived Named after The citys Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin...

In 1993 she joined the team creating the first Time Team series, shown in 1994. The success of Time Team encouraged the production of other programmes in similar formats, such as House Detectives by the BBC. In 2002 House Detectives at Large starred Carenza Lewis with architectural historian Dan Cruickshank. She also devised and presented a series called Sacred Sites for HTV. 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Time Team is a popular and populist Channel 4 television series dealing with archaeology, first shown in 1994. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dan Cruickshank is an architectural historian and television presenter, currently working for the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... HTV logo, 1990s HTV Group plc is a television company, the ITV contractor of Wales and the West of England, owned by ITV plc. ...

Carenza Lewis is widely admired for going public about her experience when she was wrongly diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 and had an unnecessary double mastectomy. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In medicine, mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. ...

Works

• Michael Aston and Carenza Lewis (eds.), The Medieval Landscape of Wessex (Oxbow: Oxford 1994).
• Carenza Lewis, Patrick Mitchell-Fox and Christopher Dyer Village, Hamlet and Field: Changing Medieval Settlements in Central England (Manchester University Press 1997).
• Carenza Lewis, Phil Harding and Mick Aston, ed. Tim Taylor, Time Team's Timechester: A companion to archaeology (Macmillan: London 2000).
• Alan Aberg and Carenza Lewis (eds.) The Rising Tide: Archaeology and Coastal Landscapes (Oxbow: Oxford 2000).

External links

• Carenza Lewis: profile from Channel 4
• Carenza Lewis's Home Page at the University of Cambridge