IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 620: Poor or Rich?: Synoptic Cemetery Profiling in Unearthing Medieval Life Style - Theoretical and Methodological Aspects
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki, Centrum Mediewistyczne, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
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| Organiser: | Jarosław Wenta, Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki, Centrum Mediewistyczne, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
| Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 620-a | Early Medieval Cremation Graves as a Source for Economic Strata and Social Structures Research: Data Interpretation Problems - Baltic Area Example (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - General, Daily Life, Social History |
| Paper 620-b | Trader or Not?: Capabilities and Limitations in Interpreting the So-Called 'Traders' Graves' in the Baltic Area (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Social History |
| Paper 620-c | The Archaeometric Record: Physical Findings, Radiography, Chemical and Molecular Analyses (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Daily Life |
| Abstract | The amendment of archaeological records by natural scientific analyses has widely proven to be a powerful tool in historical research. The introduction and refinement of (novel) techniques within the last two decades has provided valuable additional data, especially in analyzing human remains, completing our knowledge on life and life style of past societies. The first two papers represent the 'archeological point-of-view'. The third paper sets out to reveal the potentials and limitations of archaeometric cemetery investigation referring to certain aspects of paper a and b. |