New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Jones.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 1992 to 2002, the Humayma Excavation Project investigated a fairly modest palatial structure dubbed Field F103 at the site of al-Ḥumayma in southern Jordan. Early on, the excavators recognized that this structure should be identified as the qasr and mosque complex described in Arabic historical sources as having...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Soderberg.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland triggered a complex swirl of changes that presage dynamics of European colonialism in modern times. One key pattern is the emergence of divides between Anglo-Norman (colonizer) and Gaelic (indigenous) identities. Negotiating differences between “being Anglo-Norman”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Zaneri.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The later Middle Ages saw significant changes in the ways that humans exploited their natural environments, fueled by rising populations in cities and the development of commercial industries. This has been studied historically, often through the lens of urban elites, but it is less clear how these changes occurred...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Bowyer-Kazadi.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will look at the religious phenomenon of anchoritism, popular in Western Europe during the medieval period and how we, in the twenty-first century can engage with it. The medieval anchorites (men) and anchoresses (women) lived in isolation in their anchorhold (cell) in order to live the life of a solitary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pam Crabtree.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Provisioning played a critical role in the establishment of early medieval towns in northwestern Europe from the eighth through the tenth centuries CE. Zooarchaeology can reveal how the inhabitants of early medieval towns obtained meat and other animal products. Recent zooarchaeological research has revealed how the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Wiley.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The twin estuaries of the Firths of Forth and Clyde in southern Scotland boast a wealth of evidence for studying early medieval settlement. The modern population density around Glasgow and Edinburgh has resulted in a relatively large amount of data from rescue excavations and surveys compared to other parts of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleks Pluskowski. Guillermo García-Contreras. Michelle Alexander. Rowena Banerjea.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the highlights of the Landscapes of (Re)Conquest project (2018–2023), which has investigated the impact of conquest, migration and cultural transformation in the frontier societies of medieval Iberia and Pyrenean Occitania. Focusing on specific regional case studies, it considers how the creation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Jasper.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the context of an archaeological excavation in northern Lazio, Italy, this paper will discuss solutions for incomplete datasets in the study of pre-modern agriculture. The focus of excavation is a Roman imperial period, monumental fountain located 300 m from the western coast of Lake Bolsena in central Italy. Its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Kirk. Michael Kolb. William Balco.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Defensive Settlement or late medieval escape for nobility? When it comes to castles and many of their associated settlements it seems the latter has been pushed in English language literature more than the former for a few decades now. In this paper, we present a case study that showcases the development of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharon DeWitte. Janet Montgomery. Julia Beaumont. Rebecca Redfern.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous bioarchaeological work in medieval London (ca. 1000–1540) has produced evidence of higher survivorship and lower hazards of mortality and, by inference, better health in adults with nonlocal isotopic (lead and strontium) signatures compared to those with local signatures. This may be a medieval example of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kerr.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buildings archaeology somewhat lags behind the broader discipline of archaeology in its adoption and creation of new theoretical propositions possibly due to the misconception that the built environment lies solely in the remit of architectural historians rather than archaeologists. It is not, however, sitting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Brody.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In what ways did early medieval people of the Atlantic Archipelago encounter parasitic worms within and about their bodies, and how did these gutsy matters affect their daily lived experiences? To begin answering these questions, we should consider, alongside environmental archaeological data, textual sources in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florin Curta.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite great advances in the archaeology of nomadism, in Eastern Europe, medieval nomads are still associated archaeologically with burials in prehistoric barrows, along with horses or parts of the horse body. Huns, Avars, and Magyars are all labeled "nomads," but the actual conditions for nomadism in the Carpathian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Scott. Finola O'Carroll. Laura Corrway.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dominican friary in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland was established in AD 1263 by Geoffrey de Geneville, then Lord of Trim. Located just outside the town wall, the Black Friary was an important institution during the late medieval period, as indicated by its large size and double cloister as well as its use for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Claire Adams.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the emerging questions surrounding the interpretation of archaeologically attested communities which blur the lines between religious, familial, and independent productive centers in the early medieval West. Recent scholarship has begun to appreciate the interrelationship between cult sites...