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Grave Disturbances
Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revea...
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken and shared by two trade parties, dog jaws accompanying the dead in Mesolithic burials, fragments of ancient warships commodified as souvenirs, parts of an ancient dynastic throne split up between different colonial collections... Pieces of the past are everywhere around us. Fragments have a special potential precisely because of their incomplete format – as a new matter that can reference its original whole but can also live on with new, unrelated meanings. Deliberate br...
Viking-Age Transformations
The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and organized use of woodlands and alpine regions and domestic raw materials, together with the increasing standardization of products intended for long-distance trade, the volume sheds light on the emergence of a strong interconnectedness between remote rural areas and central markets. Viking-Age Transformations explores the connection between legal and e...
The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology
Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent. This Handbook provides an extensive set of specially commissioned chapters, each of which summarizes and critically reflects on progress made in this dynamic field during the early years of the twenty-first century. The authors identify and discuss the key current concepts and debates of sensory archaeology, providing overviews and commentaries on its methods and its place in interdisciplinary sensual culture studies. Through a set of thematic studie...
The European Countryside during the Migration Period
Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new archaeological discoveries that allow for increasingly refined pictures of socio-economic development. Yet the perspectives adopted by historians and archaeologists are frequently different, and so are their conclusions. Diverging views exist in respect to varying geographical areas and scholarly traditions too. This volume brings together history and archaeology to address the impact of the inflow and outflow of migrations on the rural landscape, the creation of new settlement patterns, and the role of migrations and mobility in transforming society and economy. Such themes are often investigated under a regional or macro-regional viewpoint, resulting in too fragmented an understanding of a widespread phenomenon. Spanning Eastern and Western Europe, the book takes steps toward an integrated picture of territories normally investigated as separate entities, and critically establishes grounds for new comparisons and models on late antique and early medieval transformations.
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life worlds and object worlds in medieval society. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Julie Lund is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Sarah Semple is Professor at Durham University, UK. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
Archeologia Medievale, XLVIII, 2021
Il volume XLVIII (2021) è suddiviso, come di consueto, in tre sezioni, Saggi, Notizie scavi e lavori sul campo e Note e Discussioni. Tra i saggi viene presentato un corposo contributo su S. Sisto Project (PIsa) a cura di F. Cantini. J. Celani pubblica un contributo sulle città dell’Umbria nel primo alto Medioevo, mentre M. Randazzo presenta uno studio sulla transizione bizantino-islamica nell’area di Enna. Conclude il volume la sezione Recensioni e segnalazioni. La sezione dedicata alle notizie degli scavi contiene un contributo sullo scavo della pieve di Santa Maria in Castello a Toano (dal cimitero alla torre di età comunale) (N. Mancassola), un secondo articolo è incentrato sulle ...
Recht und Kultur im frühmittelalterlichen Alemannien
Dieser Band bietet eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme der Forschung zu den frühmittelalterlichen Lebenswelten in der Alamannia. Angesichts erheblicher Fortschritte und gewandelter Perspektiven in Rechtsgeschichte, Archäologie und Geschichtswissenschaft wird damit ein Desiderat erfüllt. Die Beiträge zeichnen anhand von Text- und Sprachzeugnissen sowie archäologischen Befunde ein komplexes Bild frühmittelalterlicher Lebenswelten in der Alamannia, wobei die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von rechtlichen Normen zu sozialen, kulturellen sowie religiösen Praktiken im Mittelpunkt steht. Fünf zentrale Felder strukturieren den Aufbau des Bandes: Archäologie und Geschichte, Recht und Sprache, Habitus und Bestattungen, Siedlung und Wirtschaft sowie Kirche und Glaube. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz bilanziert methodische Probleme der Quelleninterpretation ebenso wie die Folgen wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Ballasts und bietet eine komplexe Rekonstruktion frühmittelalterlicher Lebenswelten.
