Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries by Duncan Sayer

Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries by Duncan Sayer

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, using a multi-dimensional methodology to move beyond artefacts. It offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistically focused perspective. The physical communication of digging a grave and laying out a body was used to negotiate the arrangement of a cemetery and to construct family and community stories. This approach foregrounds community, because people used and reused cemetery spaces to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased, based on their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social archaeology. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY) licence. -- .

'This is an absolute must read for anyone interested in funerary archaeology, especially for those interested in the early medieval period'
Current Archaeology

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Duncan Sayer is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire

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ISBN 13	9781526135568
ISBN 10	1526135566
Titel	Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
Autor	Duncan Sayer
Serie	Social Archaeology And Material Worlds
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-11-24
Seitenanzahl	336
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