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Bodzia. A late Viking-age elite cemetery in Central Poland /
Bodzia is one of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the post-war period in Poland. It is one of the few cemeteries in Poland from the time of the origins of the Polish state. The unique character of this discovery is mainly due to the fact that a small, elite population was buried th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Koninklijke Brill NV,
2014.
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| Colección: | East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ;
27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Looking Towards Bodzia: An Introduction; Part 1 The Area of the Middle and Lower Vistula River Valley between the 10th-11th Centuries: Archaeology and History; Chapter 1 The Archaeological Context of the Bodzia Cemetery and the Trade Route along the Middle and the Lower Vistula during the Middle and Late Viking Period; Chapter 2 The Historical Context of the Discoveries at Bodzia; Part 2 The Bodzia Cemetery: Site Location, Environmental Data, Graves and their Contents
- Chapter 3 Bodzia: Site Location and History of ResearchChapter 4 The Effect of Depositional and Post-Depositional Processes on the Preservation of Skeletal Remains in the Bodzia Cemetery; Chapter 5 The Inventory of the Burials and their Contents; Appendix: Wood and Plant Macro-Remains Analysis; Chapter 6 Analysis of the Skeletal Population from the Cemetery of Bodzia; Part 3 Grave Goods and their Context; Chapter 7 Overview of the Finds from the Bodzia Cemetery; Chapter 8 Merchants' Implements (The Folding Balance); Chapter 9 Weapons
- Appendix: Metallographic Analyses of Selected Finds from a Young Warrior's Grave (E864/I)Chapter 10 Status and Magic. Ornaments Used by the Bodzia Elites; Chapter 11 Glass Beads; Chapter 12 Iron Artifacts; Chapter 13 Costume Elements of Leather; Chapter 14 Ceramic and Wooden Containers; Chapter 15 Objects Made of Antler and Stone; Chapter 16 The Obol of the Dead; Part 4 Funeral Rites; Chapter 17 Description of the Cemetery, Organization of the Burial Space, the Burial Rites in the Light of the Cultural and Historical Determinants; Chapter 18 Tentative Reconstruction of Coffins
- Chapter 19 Symbolic Aspects of the Remains of Wood from the CemeteryPart 5 Chronology of the Cemetery; Chapter 20 Chronology of the Cemetery; Appendix 1: AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia; Appendix 2: Radiometric Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia; Part 6 Locals or Aliens?; Chapter 21 Isotopic Proveniencing of the Bodzia Burials; Chapter 22 Genetic Analysis of Selected Graves from the Cemetery; Part 7 European Contexts of the Bodzia Cemetery; Chapter 23 The Cemetery at Bodzia in a Broader European Context
- Chapter 24 The Cemetery at Bodzia in the Context of the Funerary Practices in the Polish Lands in the Late 10th-11th CenturyPart 8 The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research; Chapter 25 The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research; Bibliography; Index