Pattern and Process in the Material Culture of Anglo-Saxon Non-Elite Rural Settlements
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781407317014
Subjects: Anglo-saxons; Material culture
Description: "The research presented in this book advances scholarship on Anglo-Saxon non-elite rural settlements through the analysis of material culture. Forty-four non-elite sites and the high-status site of Staunch Meadow, occupied throughout the Anglo-Saxon period (c. 5th-11th centuries) and geographically representative of Anglo-Saxon settlement in England, were selected for study. Comparative analyses of the material culture assemblages and settlement data from these sites were evaluated from four main research perspectives: the archaeological contexts and distributional patterns of material culture at the sites; the range and character of material culture; patterns of material culture consumption; and material culture as evidence for the economic reach of rural settlements."--Back cover (page  4 of cover).