IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 204: Rules for Early Medieval Grave Goods?: Implications for the World of the Living from the World of the Dead
Monday 9 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg |
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| Organiser: | Marion Sorg, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Roland Steinacher, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 204-a | Are Brooches Personal Possessions of the Deceased?: An Empiric Investigation Based on Analyzing Age-Relatedness of Brooches (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Mentalities |
| Paper 204-b | Invisible Rules: The Study of Grave Goods in the Context of Privately Organized Intergenerational Transmission in Families (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Law |
| Paper 204-c | Things to Be Taken from the Dead: A Case Study on Reopened Graves (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Were Merovingian grave goods personal possessions of the deceased or were they family property? According to which rules were they put into graves and removed from them? These questions will be discussed in the session, as well as the consequences different theories on that topic have on chronology. Furthermore, a detailed empiric view on personal possession is developed by examining if there are correlations between wear marks on brooches and the age-at-death of the women buried with them. A case study on reopened graves at a regional level will explore possible rules and reasons for retrieving things from graves. |