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Alison Leonard

 

Nested Negotiations: landscape and portable material culture in Viking-Age England

My research on the Anglo-Scandinavian period seeks to characterise rural landscapes at both local and regional scales, accessing and interpreting them through the distribution of metal-detected portable material culture. It aims in particular to assess changes in land use and in attitudes to material culture across the Middle to Late Saxon period (c. AD 600-1100), especially in light of potential influences between Anglo-Saxon populations and settling Scandinavians. Did culture contact inspire shifts in practice? How were migrant identities shaped and exhibited? Secondary, methodological aims are to reconcile studies of portable material culture (derived from the PAS database and HERs) with landscape archaeology approaches, and to demonstrate the value of datasets synthesised from lesser-known and unpublished records. 

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Alison Leonard
Department of Archaeology
University of York
The King's Manor
York
YO1 7EP

Tel: (44) 1904 433931
Fax: (44) 1904 433902