This record primarily consists of a spreadsheet with links to the files that constitute the data and other supporting information that detail the excavations in 2017. The main record for the Aldborough project is here: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275723...

Supply chains have become increasingly global, complex, and multi-tiered. Consequently, companies have been gradually losing visibility of their supply network topology, that is, the structure formed by supply chain participants and their inter-dependencies across multi...

This work tackles long held assumptions in both archaeology and history surrounding elite diets in early medieval England i.e., that higher status individuals had a more meat-heavy diet and that this was especially true for males. We utilise the largest isotopic dataset...

It has long been accepted that royal households in the pre-Viking period subsisted on annual renders of food, sometimes termed feorm, from the free peasantry. This model of royal support is historiographically fundamental, in the sense that it is built into the foundati...

Historians have often assumed that the development and dissemination of a clarified geography of the afterlife was central to late medieval eschatological preoccupations, albeit that they have differed on a central question, the causes and chronology of Purgatory’s emer...

This dataset consists of: $$ \ $$ I. Source code and documentation for the "Shared Lexis Tool", a Windows desktop application that provides a means of exploring all of the words that are statistically associated with a word provided by the user, in a given corpus of tex...

Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of ecological globalization. By contrast, the main origin of walrus ivory destined for eastern Eur...

The second, 1849 edition of John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy contained the judgement that Fourierism presented ‘in every respect the least open to objection, of the forms of Socialism’ a verdict that can seem peculiar to those who recall the eccentrici...

The archaeology of collective action addresses a widespread myth about the past–that premodern societies were despotic, and only produced public goods when everyday people convinced a separate and distinct ruling class to provide them. Archaeological evidence from the I...