IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 806: Gestures of Mourning and Expressions of Loss of Human and Material Resources in Early Medieval Cemeteries
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham |
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Organiser: | Olga Magoula, Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Christopher P. Callow, Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham |
Paper 806-a | Graves and their Contexts: The Burials and Artefacts from the Basilica of Empuries, Spain (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites |
Paper 806-b | Cancelled Tools of Trade: Concepts and Facts of their Deposition in Northern Frankish Burials (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites |
Paper 806-c | The Expression of Regard: The Deposition of Money in Anglo-Saxon Inhumation Burials (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General |
Abstract | This session aims at current interpretations of loss of material and human resources to burials in different localities in early medieval Europe. Coins, artefacts, tools in burials within their contexts are treated usually as a point of departure for a number of assumptions and not as a point of study. Paper A focuses on grave goods in regard to the location of burials, the position of the body, and the nature of the graves and material correlates within a Basilica in Catalonia. The deposited sets of tools and implements associated with smithing and weaving activities in two cemeteries from Normandy, is the pretext for Paper B. Paper C is on coins and grave goods from Anglo-Saxon inhumations, how these express regard to the dead and reveal varied economic activities and ways to benefit the dead. All the papers explore how tools, coins, and other grave goods point to transactions, productive relations and their loss and its meaning within different early medieval societies. |