Medieval and Historical Archaeology
- Overview
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Medieval and historical archaeology at Aberdeen brings together expertise and considerable experience spanning northern Europe, the North Atlantic and high-latitude North America, as well as the recent archaeology of the Pacific.Researchers in the Department of Archaeology and associated disciplines bring:
- theoretical
- landscape
- anthropological
- scientific
- ethno-archaeological
and other interdisciplinary approaches to exploring issues such as the impact of culture contact, expressions of social identity, transformations in ideology, ritual practices and power.
Particular strengths lie in:
- the prehistoric and indigenous origins of the medieval and later northern world
- the Picts and their neighbours
- the Viking world
- colonial and post-colonial archaeology
- diet
- the social archaeology of conflict
- proto-urbanism
- ecclesiastical structures and the archaeology of the house
- Members
- Projects
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- Animal Husbandry in the Intertidal Zone: A Stable Isotope Approach to Changing Subsistence Strategies in the Belgian Coastal Plain
- Colonial Landscapes on the Northwest Coast of North America
- European Migrant Landscapes
- Isotope Analysis at St. Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen: Diet, Health and Mobility in a Medieval Maritime Society
- Paradigms of Piracy: Private Law and Social Order in the Premodern World
- Peleliu 1944: Social Archaeologies of World War II in Palau, Micronesia
- The Bennachie Landscape Project: Community Connections in the North-East of Scotland
- The Northern Picts Project
- The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
- Vikings Remembered: Late Iron Age Funerary Ritual and the Making of Norse Mythology
- Wild Signs: Graffiti and the English Landscape