As a result of the global population growth since World War II, and the major impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic on the increase in the number of deaths, carbon emissions resulting …

This contribution explores an aspect of boat burials in the second half of the first millennium
AD across Northern Europe, specifically boat burials that included equipment for board …

THE LANDSCAPE CONTEXT of the early 9th-century monument known as the Pillar of
Eliseg is interrogated here for the first time with GIS-based analysis and innovative spatial …

Introducing the European Journal of Archaeology's special issue 'Mortuary Citations: Death
and Memory in the Viking World', this article outlines the justification and theoretical …

A rare, intact Viking boat burial in western Scotland contained a rich assemblage of grave
goods, providing clues to the identity and origins of both the interred individual and the …

Boat inhumation graves were one among many ways by which waterborne craft were
deployed in the mortuary arena in late first millennium AD Scandinavia: they might be …

A triad of research themes–materiality, biography and landscape–provide the distinctive foci
and parameters of the contributions to this book. The chapters explore a range of early …

Norse colonists in Orkney contended not only with the islands' existing occupants, but also
with a foreign landscape filled with visible ancient monuments. This paper provides a brief …

The sumptuous Sutton Hoo ship-burial has been much debated since it was discovered
nearly eighty years ago, but there is no consensus on its interpretation. Assemblage theory …

Portrayals of funerals and mortuary monuments in films and on the small screen have
escaped direct and sustained consideration from archaeological perspectives. Yet for …