4 search results for “early medieval cemeteries” in the Public website
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Distributing the dead
Settlement burials in the pagus Texandrië and the transformation of Merovingian society c. 700 AD (Southern Netherlands)
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Frans TheuwsFaculteit Archeologie
f.c.w.j.theuws@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Rural Riches
The bottom-up development of post-Roman northwestern Europe
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New publication investigates curious shift of 7th century burial practices
At the end of the 7th century something curious occurs in Northwestern Europe. Suddenly, people start burying the dead next to their dwellings instead of in communal cemeteries. Professor Frans Theuws recently published a book on this phenomenon. ‘We wanted to know if the study of these farmyard burials…