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Remembrance abroad: 16th century graveslabs of German merchants in Shetland and Iceland (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the context of Hanseatic trade, many ships and merchants from Bremen and Hamburg sailed to the North Atlantic islands in the 16th century to bring dried fish and other goods back to northern Germany. Some of these merchants met their deaths abroad. This paper...