Search results for "Early Medieval"
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Study of archaeological ceramics from northern Bactria in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (3rd-7th centuries AD)
2023
Esta tesis se centra en el análisis arqueológico y arqueométrico de cerámicas kusháno-sasánidas (ss. III-IV d.C.) y altomedievales (ss. V-VIII d.C.) procedentes de diferentes yacimientos localizados en el sector septentrional de la antigua Bactriana (Asia Central). Bactriana, o Tokharistán, como fue llamada desde finales del siglo IV d.C. (Litvinsky, 1998), fue una de las satrapías del Imperio Aqueménida que incluía los territorios al norte y al sur del antiguo río Oxus (ahora Amu Darya), actualmente correspondientes al sur de Uzbekistán, sur de Tayikistán y norte de Afganistán. La región se caracterizó por contactos continuos entre pueblos, debidos a migraciones, invasiones y comercio. Des…
The sunset of Gortyn: amphorae in 7th –8th centuries AD
2014
Gortyn (A. Di Vita [ed.] 2000-01), some new contexts, more delimited and reliable, allow us to define better circulation, developments, and local use of amphorae in the last periods of urban life of the Cretan city. Two contexts of the mid-late 7th and late 7th-8th centuries are briefly analysed, coming from different quarters of the town (the Old Agora and the Early Byzantine houses near the “Praetorium”), and resulting from different formative processes, which could represent the circulation trends just before, and in the re-occupation phase after the earthquake that dismembered the Late Roman urban layout at the end of the 7th/early 8th century. They display a variety of imports from tra…
The Sicilian Countryside in the Early Middle Ages: Human–Environment Interactions at Contrada Castro
2021
Within the project ‘Harvesting Memories: Ecology and Archaeology of Monti Sicani Landscapes’, this paper aims to reconstruct human–environment interactions in the inland areas of Western Sicily during the Early Middle Ages through a comparative analysis of environmental archaeological data. We analyse carpological and anthracological finds and faunal remains originating from different layers of the rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo), excavated in 2017–2019. The site was mainly occupied between the Byzantine and Islamic periods (late 8th to 11th c. AD). The examination of wood charcoal enabled the identification of plant species selected and exploited in the landscape of…
Population genomic analysis of elongated skulls reveals extensive female-biased immigration in Early Medieval Bavaria
2018
Significance Many modern European states trace their roots back to a period known as the Migration Period that spans from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. We have conducted the first population-level analysis of people from this era, generating genomic data from 41 graves from archaeological sites in present-day Bavaria in southern Germany mostly dating to around 500 AD. While they are predominantly of northern/central European ancestry, we also find significant evidence for a nonlocal genetic provenance that is highly enriched among resident Early Medieval women, demonstrating artificial skull deformation. We infer that the most likely origin of the majority of these women was sout…