IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1607: Artefact Studies in a New Millennium: Portable Antiquities and Fresh Approaches to Material Culture
Thursday 13 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | John Naylor, Department of Archaeology, University of York / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Julian D. Richards, Department of Archaeology, University of York |
| Paper 1607-a | Early Saxon Cemeteries in their Landscape, and Metal-Detector Finds in their Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites |
| Paper 1607-b | Northumbrian Nobles, Viking Warlords, and Ecclesiastical Dynasties: The Economic History of Deira in Troubled Political Times, 700-920 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Economics - General, Numismatics |
| Paper 1607-c | Anglo-Scandinavian Perceptions: Identity and Change in the Danelaw (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Daily Life |
| Paper 1607-d | Sacred or Profane?: Human Representations in Later Anglo-Saxon Metalwork (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General |
| Abstract | Artefact-based studies have been a traditional mainstay of archaeological research for many years. With the advent of the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Early Medieval Corpus, and their online databases, vast quantities of new data have become available for study. This allows researchers the opportunity to study early medieval material culture in unprecedented detail, and with new methods. ‘Artefact Studies in a New Millennium’ focuses on the recent, wide-ranging work of material culture specialists, and how this is fundamentally changing our perceptions of early medieval society. |