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Luminescence Dating of Medieval and Early Modern Brickwork [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Essex is a county rich in significant historic brickwork spanning the medieval period. A great deal of earlier archaeological study has focused on the development and use of brick during this period, providing a framework of understanding as to how this
GURLING, THOMAS
core  

The Burning Question: Frequencies of Tobacco Consumption in Postmedieval (16th–19th c. ce) England and the Netherlands

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The frequency of tobacco use during the postmedieval period is widely underexplored; this has repercussions for our understanding of the intoxicant's health impacts during this time. Our study assesses the frequency rates of tobacco consumption in different social groups in England and the Netherlands, two countries in which tobacco use became
Anna M. Davies‐Barrett   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aquatic Diversity and Fishing Practices at Tell Tayinat (Türkiye) in the Iron Age

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While agrarian societies of the Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean relied predominantly on crops and herding of domestic stock for subsistence, local wild aquatic fauna offered a welcomed enrichment, and when opportunities occurred, it could have been a staple in the human diet.
Radovan Kabatiar
wiley   +1 more source

Placing pottery: an actor-led approach to the use and perception of medieval pottery in Southampton and its region cAD700-1400

open access: yes, 2011
This study considers the relationship between how we traditionally categorise pottery in archaeological analysis and the ways that it was understood in the past, using a case study from medieval Southampton (Hampshire, UK).
Jervis, Ben
core   +1 more source

EARLY MEDIEVAL MIRRORS WITH A CENTRAL LOOP FROM THE SUMTSOV KHARKIV MUSEUM OF HISTORY COLLECTION

open access: yesArchaeology and Early History of Ukraine
The archaeological collection of the Sumtsov Kharkiv History Museum contains 69 mirrors with a central loop on the reverse side, which were discovered by museum expedition in 1982—2021 at the Verkhnii Saltiv (VS), Staryyi Saltiv (SS) and Rubizhne burial ...
V. Aksionov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bone Adaptation and Labor Organization in Co‐Located Medieval Anatolian Populations

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skeletal evidence from geographically co‐located populations offers a rare opportunity to disentangle subsistence‐driven bone adaptation from socially organized labor. This study examines upper limb morphology in two Byzantine communities—the urban center of Tyana (10th–13th c.
Gökhan Çakan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This thesis examines the interactions between medieval clergy and laity, which were complex, and its findings trouble dominant models for understanding the relationships between official and popular religions.
Taubman, Andrew W
core   +5 more sources

From cathedral of the Isles to obscurity - the archaeology and history of Skeabost Island, Snizort

open access: yesProceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2015
The island of Snizort at Skeabost, or Eilean Chaluim Chille, in northern Skye contains the important but neglected and poorly known remains of the late medieval cathedral of Sodor or the Isles.
S. Thomas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The beginnings of scholarship on early medieval book illumination (1700-1850): between classicism and ethnicity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2020
This essay addresses historiographical and methodological issues about the very beginnings of the scholarship on early medieval manuscript illumination during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Charlotte Denoël
doaj  

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