The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: New Approaches to Ethnicity

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida

Organizer Name

Florin Curta

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Florida

Presider Name

Florin Curta

Paper Title 1

Ethnic Ambiguity in the Byzantine World

Presenter 1 Name

Fotini Kondyli

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Brown Univ.

Paper Title 2

Identity and Style: Everyday Artifacts in Regional Contexts

Presenter 2 Name

Asbjørn Engevik

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. i Bergen

Paper Title 3

Meat under the Saddle: Nomads and Farmers in the Early Medieval Carpathian Basin

Presenter 3 Name

Susanne Hakenbeck

Presenter 3 Affiliation

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Univ. of Cambridge

Start Date

11-5-2013 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1255

Description

The session is designed to explore some of the most recent approaches to the problem of ethnicity in medieval archaeology. Ethnicity was a major topic of discussion in archaeology in general in the 1990s, but after the publication of Sebastian Brather's 2004 book, research on this issue is obscured by what appears to be an agnostic and empiricist approach. From pottery to burial rites, and from style to strontium isotope analysis, participants will survey the results of research in the last few years.

Florin Curta