Human Identities in the Archaeological Record : Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Modern Period.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diana, Annamaria.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe - spanning from Late Antiquity to the early modern period - analyse and interpret the archaeological record to detect and reconstruct human identities and diversity persistence.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ONLINE MATERIALS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION HUMAN IDENTITIES THROUGH THE LENS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT: STRIVING FOR INTERDISCIPLINARITY Annamaria Diana, Alice Toso and Daniela Marcu-Istrate

Why another 'archaeology and identity' volume?

Archaeology and identity dialogues - a brief overview

Volume structure and themes

Religious and spiritual resistance

The dead speak for the living: stories from the burial context

Colonialism, social transitions and the (re)shaping of identities

Expressions of individuality and 'otherness'

Endangered identities

Reconstructing voices from the past

Note

References

PART I BELONGING, RESILIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY

CHAPTER 1 AKSUM AND BEYOND: PLURALITY, HYBRIDIZATION AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN THE HORN OF AFRICAG abriele Castiglia

Contexts and identities: an introduction

Identity and spirituality in formation: the complex adoption of Christianity

Towards new identities: the nebulous transition to Islam

Discussion: liminality, identity formation, colonization and the longue durée

CHAPTER 2 MARTYRDOM NARRATIVES AND IDENTITY FORMATION AT THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF EPICTETUS AND ASTION FROM HALMYRIS Ciprian Crețu and Andrei Dorian Soficaru

Introduction

Materials and methods

Epictetus and Astion from Halmyris

Archaeological and architectural evidence

Anthropological analysis

The postmortem fate of martyrs' bodies: intersection of disciplines andidentity (re)construction

Conclusions

CHAPTER 3 IRISH IDENTITIES REFLECTED IN PRE-FAMINE HEADSTONE ICONOGRAPHY Gerry Mullins

Political, economic and social background

Political background.

Economic background 1: agriculture

Economic background 2: migration

Social background 1: religion

Social background 2: language and culture

The region selected for sampling

Memorials

Headstones

Survey results

Number of headstones

Identifying with a place

Catholic/Christian identity

Passion stones

PART II STORIES FROM THE BURIAL CONTEXT

CHAPTER 4 MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL LISBON: A MULTI-ISOTOPE DIET AND MOBILITY STUDY OF THE RUA DOS LAGARES #74 NECROPOLIS Rebecca Anne MacRoberts, Lucy Shaw Evangelista, Marina Lourenço, Manuel Fialho Silva, Cristina Barrocas Dias, Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar, Bernd R. Schöne and Anne-France Maurer

Historical context

Archaeological context

Anthropological assessment

Results

Discussion

Mobility patterns

A multi-faith African community

Final considerations

CHAPTER 5 A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE? ATYPICAL AND DEVIANT BURIAL PATTERNS AT TURDA VECHE'S REFORMED CHURCH CEMETERY, TRANSYLVANIAHorațiu Dorin Groza and Annamaria Diana

Historical overview and previous research

Archaeological investigations of the Reformed church

Position and/or orientation non-conformity

Interpreting bioarchaeological evidence

Notes

CHAPTER 6 GRIPS AND GRIP PLATES: GETTING AHOLD ON IDENTITY IN POST-MEDIEVAL YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND Diana Swales

Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Carver Street Methodist Chapel

The Upper Chapel, Sheffield

Minster Church, All Saints, Rotherham, South Yorkshire

St John the Baptist Church, Hooton Roberts, South Yorkshire

All Saints Cathedral, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Square Chapel, Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Ebenezer Chapel, Victoria Gate, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Simplicity and elaborate ostentation

Furniture fixings and familiarity

Consumers and commercialism

Conclusion

PART III BIOCULTURAL TRANSITIONS

CHAPTER 7 EXPLORING TRANSITION AND IDENTITY THROUGH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF THIRD- TO SEVENTH-CENTURY NO RTHAMPTONSHIRE: A THEORETICAL DISCUSSION Alvaro Felipe Ortega-González

Change

Identity

Future research

CHAPTER 8 ANIMALS AS WITNESS TO CULTURAL IDENTITIES: THE SPANISH IMPRINT OF THE COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS Aurélie Manin, Noémie Tomadini and Ophélie Lebrasseur

Early introduction of European animals to the Americas

Cerrito de Tres Mezquites: importing the Spanish identity beyond Mesoamerica

The multiple signatures of the Spanish presence in the Americas

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 9 THE TASTE OF THE LAND: ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE OF URBAN AND RURAL IDENTITIES IN MEDIEVAL PORTUGAL Alice Toso, Cleia Detry, Ines Simão, Jaoquina Soares,Ana Margarida Arruda and Michelle Alexander

Biomolecular analysis

CHAPTER 10 PADDOCK TO PLATE AT THE BARRACKS: MEAT CUTS AS A SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL TRIABUNNA (TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA) Madeleine E. Lucas, Sofia C. Samper Carro, D. A. Lenton, Catherine J. Frieman and James L. Flexner

Zooarchaeology of historic Australian foodways

Materials and methods: developing the Triabunna Barracks meat cut typology

Skeletal representation

Meat cuts and recipe identifications

Meat cut analysis

Meal type identification

Socioeconomic status at the Barracks

References.

PART IV EXPRESSIONS OF INDIVIDUALITY

CHAPTER 11 NEW INSIGHTS ON THE IDENTITY OF A SEVENTH-CENTURY HORSE RIDER: THECASE OF GRAVE 104 BIS FROM TÂRGȘOR Erwin Gáll, Andrei Soficaru, Ana Ștefan, Andrei Măgureanu, Gergely Szenthe and Bogdan Ciupercă

Introduction: the grave

The analysis of the grave in previous studies

Grave analysis

Orientation

The horse burial

The grave inventory

Stable isotope results

14C analyses and observations of individual osteobiography

CHAPTER 12 ARCHAEOLOGICAL STORYTELLING, OR STORIES ABOUT THE 'OTHER'? COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ITS POTENTIAL TO UNDERSTAND EMOTIONAL ACTIONS TOWARDS THE DECEASED Patrycja Godlewska

Cognitive archaeology

Psychology and the archaeology of emotions to understand the past

Materializing emotions in archaeological evidence

Emotions in archaeology vs. the archaeology of emotions

The midwife, the doctor, the weaver, the homosexual: the potential 'other' in the consciousness of medieval Slavic people

Midwives and female physicians, in the burial context

Other, effeminate, homosexual?

Spinning and gender or social identity

CHAPTER 13 BRICK BY BRICK: CONSTRUCTING ANTHROPOMORPHIC GRAVES FORTHE EARLY NOBILITY Daniela Marcu-Istrate

Anthropomorphic burials in Transylvania

Anthropomorphic graves built of bricks

A style or status choice?

The built anthropomorphic graves in the local context

CHAPTER 14 'IN A COMMUNITY OF PIPES IS A COMMUNITY OF HEARTS': GLAZED TOBACCO PIPES AS A REFLECTION OF IDENTITY Ionuț-Cosmin Codrea

Historical background

The glazed tobacco pipes discovered in Deva fortress

PART V RECLAIMING AND PROTECTING IDENTITIES.

CHAPTER 15 AFTER THE STORM: COUNTERACTING THE IMPACT OF CATASTROPHIC WEATHER EVENTS ON THE INDIGENOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD WITH CREATIVE MITIGATING SOLUTIONS IN THE MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES Elizabeth C. Reetz and John F. Doershuk

Project background

Section 106 Archaeology at Lake Delhi

Creative mitigation

Educational web resource development

Discovery and planning

Content creation

Review and launch

Implementation and feedback

CHAPTER 16 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BULGARIANS OF TRANSYLVANIA AND THE FRANCISCAN MONASTERY IN VINŢU DE JOS: HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DIASPORA Sebastian Ovidiu Dobrotă

The Communitas Bulgarorum Alvincziensis

The Franciscan monastery

Archaeological evidence

The Church of St Peter and Paul

The friary

Discussion and conclusions

CHAPTER 17 IDENTITY WITHOUT CONTEXT: INTEGRATING ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND FORENSIC METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ISOLATED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SKULLS Annamaria Diana, Daniel O'Meara and Julieta Gómez García-Donas

Morphoscopic assessment

Morphometric assessment

Methodological approaches and statistical analysis

AncesTrees results

Photogrammetry

EPILOGUE TO BE OR TO BELONG: A PERPETUAL DILEMMA Annamaria Diana, Daniela Marcu-Istrate and Alice Toso

INDEX.

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ISBN:

1-350-53625-3

9781350536258

OCLC:

1583181261