New: Grave Goods in Early Medieval Europe: regional variability and decline
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Judith Winters
Jul 30, 2021, 5:08:01 AM7/30/21
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Just published in Internet Archaeology
It is avowedly comparative and deals with “big picture” issues. Crucially, it presents that data in detail (searchable map and downloadable data and code) allowing the reader to effectively ‘ground truth’ the author’s wider conclusions.
Judith
Brownlee, E. 2021 Grave Goods in Early Medieval Europe: regional variability and decline, Internet Archaeology 56. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.11
This new article analyses the transition from furnished to unfurnished burial across early medieval western Europe.
It is the first attempt to systematically compare the way in which the transition occurred across disparate, but connected regions of early medieval Europe, using GIS and statistical methods.
Emma published an article in Antiquity earlier in the year which gave an overview of the way in which grave good use changed across Europe. This article now expands on all of the regional variations and reflects on the way in which the use of different types of grave goods may have changed relative to overall numbers. Using quantitative methods, the article's focus is the insight into long-distance cultural connectivity that can be gained from analysing the same process across a wide geographic area.
In a field, where international comparison, particularly of funerary data, is rare, this article takes a wide-ranging and large-scale overview of the shifting nature and patterns of accompanied burial rites in NW Europe.
It is the first attempt to systematically compare the way in which the transition occurred across disparate, but connected regions of early medieval Europe, using GIS and statistical methods.
Emma published an article in Antiquity earlier in the year which gave an overview of the way in which grave good use changed across Europe. This article now expands on all of the regional variations and reflects on the way in which the use of different types of grave goods may have changed relative to overall numbers. Using quantitative methods, the article's focus is the insight into long-distance cultural connectivity that can be gained from analysing the same process across a wide geographic area.
In a field, where international comparison, particularly of funerary data, is rare, this article takes a wide-ranging and large-scale overview of the shifting nature and patterns of accompanied burial rites in NW Europe.
It is avowedly comparative and deals with “big picture” issues. Crucially, it presents that data in detail (searchable map and downloadable data and code) allowing the reader to effectively ‘ground truth’ the author’s wider conclusions.
Judith
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