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POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeology and Text in Northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval Periods Edited by Charlotta Hillerdal and Kristin Ilves A collective summary of our current understandings of Iron Age and early medieval northern Europe.
Delves into the current state of Iron Age and early medieval research in northern europe. Over the last two decades of archaeological explorations, theoretical vanguards and new methodological strategies, together with a growing amount of multidisciplinary critical studies in archaeology, have dramatically changed our understanding of northern Iron Age societies. This book provides a collective summary of our understanding and facilitates a renewed interaction between academia and the ever-growing field of infrastructural archaeology.
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Oxbow Books • 9781789254501 • Hardback • b/w illus. 280 x 216mm • 200 pages • June 2020 • £45.00
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Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns
Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800–1100 Edited by Letty ten Harkel and D.M. Hadley Explores everyday life in Viking-Age towns from both sides of the Irish Sea. The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. This book focuses instead on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements. What was it really like to grow up, live and die in these towns? What did people eat, what did they wear and how did they make a living for themselves?
Oxbow Books • 9781789255461 • New in Paperback 242 x 170mm • 272 pages • July 2020 • £29.95
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Exploring Celtic Origins
New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics Edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch
Explores the background of Celts and speakers of Celtic languages. The fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics and archaeogenetics over the past ten years, this book aims to improve understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. Contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively user-friendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers.
Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 By Neil Christie and Paul Stamper
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, economics and population, bringing together evidence drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, historical geographical analysis and documentary and place-name study. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white, and written by expert contributors, the volume includes a comprehensive, integrated bibliography and an index. It will be essential reading for everyone researching and interested in medieval settlements and the medieval rural landscape.
Windgather Press • 9781911188674 • New in Paperback 246 x 185mm • 304 pages • October 2020 • £25.00
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Horse and Rider in the Late Viking Age
Edited by Merete Schifter Bagge and Anne Pedersen Places a rich equestrian burial from the 10th century in a wider context.
In 2017 an exceptionally rich equestrian burial from the 10th century was discovered at Fregerslev near Skanderborg, Denmark, which contained a high-status horseman, buried with valuable grave goods. This volume seeks to place the burial in a wider context and to determine whether the burial was an expression of a new powerful elite, of new religious symbolism, funerary rituals, or new cultural impulses and changing values.
Aarhus University Press • 9788771849981 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 280 pages • October 2020 • £35.00
Pecsaetna
People of the Anglo-Saxon Peak District By Phil Sidebottom Recent research into the ‘lost’ Anglo-Saxon Pecsaetna people.
This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. This group of people is shrouded in the mists of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and are only known to us by the chance survival of less than a handful of documents.
The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650–1100
By Rose Broadley
The first comprehensive work examining early medieval glass.
Oxbow Books• 9781789253726 Paperback• 192 pages Available Now• £35.00 Interpreting Medieval Effigies
By Brian Gittos and Moira Gittos A detailed examination of more than 200 examples of surviving monumental effigies.
The Wealth of England
By Susan Rose
A fascinating exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England.
Oxbow Books• 9781789253825 New in Paperback• 238 pages Available Now• £28.00 The Anglo-Saxon Princely Burial at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea
By Sue Hirst and Christopher Scull Describes and illustrates years of study of the Prittlewell princely burial.
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The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey
B y Wa r w i c k R o d we l l a n d David S. Neal
A holistic study of an oustanding group of momnuments.
Oxbow Books• 9781789252347 Hardback• 724 pages
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S e t t l e m e n t C h a n g e across Medieval Europe
Edited by Niall Brady and Claudia Theune Examines how changes in the past affected landscapes and
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Oxbow Books • 9781789255027 Paperback • b/w and colour illus. 240 x 170mm • 192 pages • November 2020 £30.00
About the author:
Nick Bellantoni, PhD, serves as the emeritus state archaeologist with the Connecticut State Museum of Natural Histor y and Adjunct Associate Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. He is a former President of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut and the National Association of State Archaeologists.
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Exploring Archaeology and Forensic Science within Connecticut's Historical Family Mausolea By Nick Bellantoni Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology Tells the stories of the Connecticut State Archaeologist’s investigations into five 18th-/19thcentury family tombs.
Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire was to be interred within burial vaults rather than have their wooden coffins laid into the earth in direct contact with crushing soil burden led many prominent families to construct large above-ground and semi-subterranean tombs, usually burrowed into the sides of hills as places of interment for their dead. And The Tomb Remains tells the stories of the Connecticut State Archaeologist’s investigations into five 18th-/19th-century family tombs: the sepulchers of Squire Elisha Pitkin, Center Cemetery, East Hartford; Gershom Bulkeley, Ancient Burying Ground, Colchester; Samuel and Martha Huntington, Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich; Henry Chauncey, Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown; and Edwin D. Morgan, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford. In all of these cases, the state archaeologist assisted in identifying and restoring human skeletal remains to their original burial placements when vandalized through occult rituals or contributed to the identification of unrecorded burials during restoration projects. Each investigative delves into family histories and genealogies, as well as archaeological and forensic sciences that helped identify the entombed and is told in a personal, story-telling approach. Written in essay form, each investigation highlights differing aspects of research in mortuary architecture and cemetery landscaping, public health, restoration efforts, crime scene investigations, and occult activities.
