My paper on early medieval corpses, grave goods, and the relationship between the two, is now available online in the European Journal of Archaeology!
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Summary below 👇 1/ This paper stemmed from dissatisfaction in the way we commonly talk about mortuary practices, often from the perspective of the mourner, and the society they leave behind. But what about the corpse itself? There are plenty of societies where corpses maintain a social presence 2/

THREAD on why the new @AfterThePlague1 PNAS paper on sixth-century #plague in Britain is so important, and why we need to pay more attention to the plague in discussions of the early medieval world #medievaltwitter pnas.org/content/early/… 1/10 The reach of the First Pandemic (or Justinianic plague) was massive. First recorded in Egypt in 541AD, it spread rapidly to Byzantium, and then further west, reaching Gaul in 543AD, and Ireland in 544AD. We now know that it reached Britain at the same time too 2/10