Bioarchaeology of injuries and violence in early medieval Europe / edited by Jorge López Quiroga and Luis Ríos Frutos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López Quiroga, Jorge, 1966- editor.

Ríos Frutos, Luis, editor.

Series:

BAR international series ; 3088.

Archaeological studies on late antiquity and early medieval Europe (400-1000 A.D.). Monographs ; 4.

BAR international series ; 3088

Aslaeme. Monographs ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--Europe.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Wounds and injuries--Europe--History--To 1500.

Wounds and injuries.

Violence--Europe--History--To 1500.

Violence.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 195 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

Bioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval Europe presents evidence and documents forms of violence and injuries in skeletal remains. Its contributions address this topic for the first time in a chronologically specific arc (Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages) and a wide geographical area (Greece, England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain). The diversity of examples of interpersonal violence, collective violence (mass graves), punishments, and ante-mortem and post-mortem injuries provides an important data set concerning the degree and dimension of violence and injuries in post-Roman Europe. Osteoarchaeological and bioarchaeological analysis of human remains, together with exhaustive studies of corpses, from the time of burial to exhumation, makes it possible to identify burials as ?non-normative', ?anomalous? or ?deviant? burials that may be the result of violence, including evidence of punishments and executions.

Contents:

Violent societies and/or societies without violence? Injuries and violence in the Early Middle Ages from a bioarchaeological approach

The osteological evidence for execution in Anglo-Saxon England

Skeletal trauma as an indicator of directed interpersonal violence in Early Medieval German. Evidence from the Large Merovingian Cemetery of Mannheim-Seckenheim

Violence in Gaul from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval period

The Byzantine "Wound Man". The bioarchaeology of trauma in the Sixth to Twelth Centuries AD Greece

Injuries, violence and war in Apulia during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Traumatic pathology and violence between the 7th and 11th Centuries in the Hermitic Necropolis of Las Gobas (Lano, Trevino, Burgos)

Violence survival or death. The osteoarchaeological evidence from Christian and Muslim contexts in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Navarre (7th-11th Centuries).

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0.

ISBN:

9781407359939

1407359932

OCLC:

1338668476