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The EAS Census is the research database of the Beyond the Tribal Hidage Project. The project examined the emergence of regional Anglo-Saxon kingdoms across southern England using archaeological data, adopting an explicitly comparative approach to establish reasons for spatial and temporal variation between different population groups. Three kingdoms shared a geographical region, yet each had contrasting characteristics at the point of entry into the historical record. The project database comprises all finds pots (to 2007), all burial records and all associated artefacts for the period AD450-700. The artefacts are identified by type, raw material and weight - this data was used to plot comparative distributions across the study area.

The excavation revealed several features of probable late Saxon date, including a number of aligned ditches (property boundaries), a dog burial within a pit and other smaller pits. Some of these features can be correlated with recorded documentary evidence. Medieval features include an east to west aligned ditch just to the north of the present day northern boundary wall of the former Redworth House, other ditches and some intercutting pits. In addition several other ditches and some quarry pits can be assigned to the post-medieval and modern periods. The evidence from these features was relatively typical for the periods represented, with domestic pottery, ironwork (including an awl and nails) and worked bone. A small amount of evidence for earlier activity includes worked flint, and a few residual Roman and early/middle Saxon sherds, with a collection of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints found during the watching brief. This deposition includes the site data and post-excavation data gathered from the excavation and watching brief, the physical archive is being held in the Salisbury and Wiltshire Museum under the accession number 2018.99.

Diplomová práce se zabývá problematikou dětství ve středověku. První část práce je věnována obecnému teoretickému úvodu do problematiky dětství v minulosti. Důraz je zde kladen především na vymezení předmětu studia, dějiny bádání a na řešené otázky a problémy popř. metody výzkumu spojené s touto problematikou. Dále se práce zabývá dějinami dětství a zejména pohřbíváním dětí ve středověké Evropě. Důraz je kladen na specifika dětských pohřbů v průběhu raného až pozdního středověku. Cílem práce je prostřednictvím analýzy a syntézy raně až pozdně středověkých pohřebišť vystihnout specifika pohřbívání dětí v průběhu středověku a na základě těchto specifik interpretovat možné postavení dítěte ve středověku a jeho vztah k dospělé populaci. Katedra archeologie Neobhájeno This thesis is addressing the issue of childhood in the Middle Ages. The first part pursues the goal of a theoretical introduction into the field of childhood in the past. The emphasis is on the definition of the subject at matter, research history and the questions and problems at hand, eventually the methodology of research concerning the field of study. Further on it looks into the history of childhood and child burials in medieval Europe in particular. The emphasis lays on th e specifics of child burials from early to late Middle Ages.The concluding chapter contains the results of the authors own research, based on the study of graveyards and burials. The thesis contains the analysis of sixteen burial sites from the periods of early to late Middle Ages. The goal of the thesis was to trace the changes in the burials of non-adult individuals in the focused period.

Gender has long been recognized as an important structuring agent in Bronze Age communities across Europe. A strong impression of binary gender emerges from some Early Bronze Age cemeteries, and models of social organization developed from this evidence have greatly influenced understandings of gender across the continent. This article focuses on two regions with more equivocal evidence: Ireland and Scotland, where idiosyncratic practices characterize individual cemeteries alongside wider trends. Expressions of gender varied in radical ways between different communities, and this cannot be captured or explained by the current grand narratives for the European Bronze Age. Instead, the author argues that gender could be subtle, contextual, and of varying importance to individual communities at different times, not necessarily a common feature unifying the European Bronze Age.

John Moore Heritage Services carried out an archaeological watching brief during groundworks for an extension to All Saints Church, The Green, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire (NGR SU 41692 85717). A total of 28 skeletons were recorded during the watching brief, in addition to four brick built vaults. Without exception the skeletons were found within earth cut graves; the grave cuts were rarely visible, except where truncation of an earlier burial had occurred. The date range of the burials encountered is uncertain, though a late-medieval or early post-medieval date is likely based on the depth of burials A proliferation of shrouded burials was evident, though four probable 18th or early 19th century burials were also recorded. Of the burials excavated 20 adults were identified, 3 sub-adults, 1 juvenile and 1 infant; 3 remained of undetermined age due to poor preservation. Skeletons 30 and 36 were the only earth cut burials associated with coffins, while two well preserved wooden coffins were present within brick vault 1006. These were dated to the late 18th or early 19th century on the basis of the lid motifs, examples of which had previously been identified on coffins during archaeological excavation at St George's Church, Bloomsbury. On the whole the burials recorded during the watching brief do not appear to correspond with any of the tombstones present prior to the commencement of works, again indicating that they are likely to be earlier in date. The exception of this is chest tombs M13 and M14, which correspond to vaulted grave shaft 1015 and grave cut 1016 (1017) and M18, which corresponds to vaulted tomb 1006.

В статье анализируется 278 костяков и могил, в которых костяки были нарушены, из Астраханцевского (АКМ), Басандайского (БКМ) курганных могильников и могильника у Устья М. Киргизки (МУМК). Указанные памятники относятся к басандайской культуре. Они расположены в Томском и Шегарском районах Томской области. Во всех могильниках выявлено семь направлений ориентации: СВ–ЮЗ, ССВ–ЮЮЗ, СЗ–ЮВ, ССЗ–ЮЮВ, С–Ю, З–В, ЗСЗ–ВЮВ (кроме ССЗ–ЮЮВ в АКМ). Погребения с указанием ориентации нанесены на планы могильников, на которых выделились отдельные группы (АКМ, МУМК) или захоронения в одном кургане нескольких костяков с разной ориентацией (АКМ, БКМ, МУМК), вероятно, принадлежавшие разным этносам или этнографическим группам одного этноса. Сравнение ориентации погребенных в могильниках в раннем, развитом и позднем Средневековье Томского Приобья показало сохранение у значительной части населения ориентации по линии СВ–ЮЗ на протяжении всего Средневековья. The article analyzes 278 skeletons or graves from the Astrakhantsevsky burial mound (ABM), the Basandaysky burial mound (BBM), and the burial mound at the mouth of the Malaya Kirgiska River (MKBM) where the skeletons were broken. These sites can be attributed to the Basandaika Culture. They are located in the Tomsky and Shegarsky districts of the Tomsk Region. In all of these burial mounds seven orientations were identified: NE-SW, NNE-SSW, NW-SE, NNWSSE, NS, WE, WNW-ESE. The graves indicating the orientation were marked on the layouts of the burial mounds. The layouts demonstrate separate groups (ABM, MKBM) or several skeletons differently oriented in a single mound (ABM, BBM, MKBM), which could belong to different ethnic groups or ethnographic groups of the same ethnic group.