Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Life and Lore in the Late Iron Age (c. 550-1050 AD) North
Content:
Over the last two decades of archaeological explorations, theoretical vanguards, and the introduction of new methodological strategies, together with a growing amount of critical studies in archaeology taking their stance from a multidisciplinary perspective, have dramatically changed our understanding of Northern Iron Age societies. One example being the recognition of the profound effect of 6th century AD climatic events on the emerging, collapsing and surviving networks visible from the archaeological, biocultural and paleoclimatic records. Other recent examples of such landwinnings are found in the reintegration of written sources and archaeological material, genetic and isotopic studies entirely reinterpreting previously excavated grave material, and emerging understanding of the varied nature of cross-cultural contacts.
The aim of this session is to provide an intense and cohesive focus on the characteristics of contemporary Late Iron Age research in Scandinavia and northern Europe.
We welcome contributions:
• presenting up-to-date insights from field projects facilitating more comprehensive understanding of large-scale networks characteristic for the period
• providing new daring insights and ways of interpreting settlement dynamics by exploring and re-evaluating already existing material
• exploring the significance of the written word existing in the intermedium between Iron Age and a text based medieval society
• discussing different levels of interaction; between cultures, and over time, including the academic and public impact of our current understanding of the period in question.
We invite scientific contributions as well as more speculative thoughts pushing the field forward from their expected outcomes and inspiring to the creation of new knowledge. We also encourage contributions related to a renewed interaction between academia and the ever-growing field of infrastructural archaeology, by integrating cutting edge fieldwork and developing field methods in the corpus of Iron Age and Early Medieval studies.
Keywords:
Iron Age and early Medieval, North, Settlement and spaciality, Field and methodology, Text and translation, Interaction and impact
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Kristin Ilves (Finland) 1
Co-organisers:
Charlotta Hillerdal (United Kingdom) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of Helsinki
2. University of Aberdeen
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