Grave Matters: Eight studies of First Millennium AD burials in Crimea, England and southern Scandinavia. Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fourth Annual Meeting in Göteborg 1998

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Collection of eight papers which treat three different areas of study: Late Scythian cemeteries, Anglo-Saxon England and southern Scandinavia. Two main dimensions of society were studied: ethnicity and social status, both expressed through material culture and mortuary customs. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Opening Quotation Table of Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION The Roman Period necropolis of Zavetnoe in southwest Crimea. Burial structures and mortuary ritual The Late Scythian burial rite in the Belbek Valley of southwest Crimea in the Roman Period The Early Anglo-Saxon burial rite: moving towards a contextual understanding Theoretical and methodological approaches to Migration Period burials Placing the dead: investigating the location of wealthy barrow burials in seventh century England Swords and brooches. Constructing social identity Late Iron Age barrows at Lyckås, Skärstad parish, Småland, southern Sweden Communities in southeast Scandinavia in the Viking Period. An introduction to research in progress