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Physical Effects of Social Status in Early Medieval Thuringia: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Health and Disease among Individuals from the Merovingian Cemetery of Großvargula, Germany (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jana Meyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Merovingian society (450–751 CE) was strongly stratified with differences in social standing being written in law and affecting many aspects of life, such as occupation and access to material, nutritional, and medical resources. How did these status differences become embodied in Early Medieval Thuringia? This study explores the cumulative effect of...