Internet Archaeology is very pleased to announce the publication of
"Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy: using portable antiquities to study
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England"
by Julian D. Richards, John Naylor and Caroline Holas-Clark
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue25/richards_index.html
In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in
archaeological research has greatly increased through reporting to the
Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC).
There are now thousands more artefacts and coins known than a decade ago
which, in conjunction with fieldwork, have the potential to
revolutionise our understanding of the early medieval period. This is
the first time that these data have been examined on a national scale.
Such an approach enables the detailed analysis of the nature of portable
antiquities data, the bias within such datasets and the relationship
between patterns of recovery and historic settlement. In the light of
these new interpretations of the overall datasets, the most artefact-
and coin-rich sites, known as 'productive sites', can be analysed within
a new framework of understanding. This article is a major outcome of the
Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy (VASLE) project, funded by
AHRC research grant APN18370.
In addition to the narrative elements of the article, readers are able
to access the original datasets to draw their own maps, and to call up
charts of the artefact assemblages for over 60 'productive sites'. The
secondary datasets developed for the project are also available for
download from the Archaeology Data Service.
regards,
Judith
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Judith Winters
Editor, Internet Archaeology
http://intarch.ac.uk
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