Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

The Human Remains from Early Medieval Domburg (Netherlands) and Other Coastal Communities in International Perspective

Towards an International Research Agenda for the Cemeteries of the North Sea Emporia

Bibliographic Data

ID10998116
AuthorsLetty ten Harkel (0000-0003-1437-3038, corresponding author), Robert van Dierendonck, Eleanor Farber, Michael W Dee (0000-0002-3116-453X), Michael Dee (0000-0002-3673-5370), Petra Doeve (0000-0002-8322-2068), Helena Hamerow (0000-0001-5643-5888), E Jansma (0000-0003-1690-2976), P Le Roux (0000-0002-5930-4995), R G A M Panhuysen (0000-0003-3750-3536), Raphaël Panhuysen, Pieterjan Deckers (0000-0002-7033-516X)
Year2023
Volume67
Issue1
Pages29-72
Publication date2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedieval Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0076-6097 • E-ISSN: 1745-817X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00766097.2023.2204661
OpenAlexW4382136810
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited81

THIS PAPER ADDRESSES THE QUESTION, who were the people who were buried at the early medievalNorth Sea emporia? Conclusions about the mercantile character of the North Sea emporia are often based on portablematerial culture. In recognition of the fact that it is difficult to draw conclusions about the identities of people basedon finds assemblages, two pilot projects have been completed that involved bioarchaeological analyses of cemetery pop-ulations associated with these sites. The first of these, the Investigating the Dead in Early Medieval Domburg project,undertook multi-disciplinary analyses of the (very small) surviving burial population from the mostly destroyed sitesin the Domburg area (Netherlands), combining isotope analysis, radiocarbon dating, biological anthropology, dendro-chronology, and provenancing and study of previous use of coffin wood. The second, the Medieval Migrants of theNorth Sea World project, inventoried available isotopic evidence for human remains from emporia sites in England,the Netherlands and Scandinavia, alongside contextual archaeological information. This paper presents both projects,providing the detailed information from Domburg in its wider, international context, and highlighting the need for acomprehensive research agenda to fill current gaps in our understanding of early medieval emporia populations

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Geography · Population · Radiocarbon dating · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History

  • Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore

    Madeleine Mant, Rebecca Redfern et al.•World Archaeology•2024

  • Stepwise enrichment of 15N along food chains

    Open Access•Masao Minagawa, Eitaro Wada•Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta•1984

  • Signs of malnutrition and starvation—Reconstruction of nutritional life histories by serial isotopic analyses of hair

    Open Access•Ferdinand M Neuberger, Eilin Jopp et al.•Forensic Science International•2013

  • Beitrag zur Rationalisierung eines dendrochronologischen Verfahrens und zur Analyse seiner Aussagesicherheit

    Open Access•Dieter Eckstein, J Bauch•Forstwissenschaftliches…•1969

  • The oxygen isotope relationship between the phosphate and structural carbonate fractions of human bioapatite

    Open Access•Carolyn Chenery, Carolyn A Chenery et al.•Rapid Communications in Mass…•2012

  • Effect of Diet Quality and Composition on the Isotopic Composition of Respiratory CO2, Bone Collagen, Bioapatite, and Soft Tissues

    Larry L Tieszen, Tim Fagre•Prehistoric Human Bone•1993

  • Stable-Carbon Isotope Ratios as a Measure of Marine Versus Terrestrial Protein in Ancient Diets

    Open Access•Brian S Chisholm, Brian Chisholm et al.•Science•1982

  • The Great Irish Famine

    Open Access•Julia Beaumont, J Montgomery et al.•PLoS ONE•2016

  • Nitrogen balance and δ 15 N

    Open Access•Benjamin T Fuller, James L Fuller et al.•Rapid Communications in Mass…•2005

  • The geographic distribution of strontium isotopes in Danish surface waters – A base for provenance studies in archaeology, hydrology and agriculture

    Open Access•Karin Margarita Frei, Robert Frei•Applied Geochemistry•2011

  • Nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition of bone collagen from marine and terrestrial animals

    Open Access•Margaret J Schoeninger, Michael J Deniro•Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta•1984

  • Circular, D-Shaped and Other Fortifications in 9th-and 10th-Century Flanders and Zeeland as Markers of the Territorialisation of Power(s)

    Dries Tys, Pieterjan Deckers et al.•Fortified Settlements in Early…•2016

  • Building Anglo-Saxon England

    Open Access•John Blair, J Anthony Blair•Building Anglo-Saxon England•2018

  • Framing the Early Middle Ages

    Chris Wickham•FRAMING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES:…•2005

  • The Long History of Early Medieval Urbanism on the Island of Walcheren (Netherlands)

    Pieterjan Deckers•Journal of Urban Archaeology•2022

  • Problems with Strontium Isotopic Proveniencing in Denmark

    Open Access•Douglas Price•Danish Journal of Archaeology•2021

  • Isotopes and human burials at Viking Age Birka and the Mälaren region, east central Sweden

    Open Access•T D Price, Caroline Arcini et al.•Journal of Anthropological…•2018

  • Diet and mobility in early medieval coastal Belgium

    Open Access•Rachèl Spros, Maura Pellegrini et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2022

  • Strontium isoscapes in The Netherlands. Spatial variations in 87Sr/86Sr as a proxy for palaeomobility

    Open Access•L M Kootker, Rowin J van Lanen et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2016

  • Coastal societies, exchange and identity along the Channel and southern North Sea shores of Europe, AD 600–1000

    Open Access•C P Loveluck, Dries Tys•Journal of Maritime Archaeology•2006

  • To the Land or to the Sea”

    Ellen McManus, J Montgomery et al.•The Journal of Island and Coastal…•2013

  • Stable isotope variation in pathological bone

    Open Access•M Anne Katzenberg, Nancy C Lovell•International Journal of…•1999

  • From poachers to gamekeepers

    Open Access•Simon Coupland•Early Medieval Europe•1998

  • Trading places

    Open Access•Simon Coupland•Early Medieval Europe•2002

  • A dendrochronological reassessment of three Roman boats from Utrecht (the Netherlands)

    Open Access•E Jansma, Kristof Haneca et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2014

  • The ups & downs of Iron Age animal management on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway, south-central England

    Open Access•R J Schulting, P Le Roux et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2019

  • Stable Isotope Evidence for Similarities in the Types of Marine Foods Used by Late Mesolithic Humans at Sites Along the Atlantic Coast of Europe

    Open Access•Michael Richards, M P Richards et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•1999

  • Roman and early-medieval long-distance transport routes in north-western Europe

    Open Access•Rowin J van Lanen, E Jansma et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2016

  • Living with the Dead

    Clifford M Sofield•Archaeological Journal•2015

  • The Post-Roman Foreshore and the Origins of the Late Anglo-Saxon Waterfront and Dock of Æthelred’s Hithe

    Julian Ayre, Robin Wroe-Brown•Archaeological Journal•2015

  • Description of an Ancient Tumular Cemetery, Probably of the Anglo-Saxon Period, at Lamel-Hill, near York

    John Thurnam•Archaeological Journal•1849

  • Food and Power in Early Medieval England

    Open Access•Samantha Leggett, Tom Lambert•Anglo-Saxon England•2020

  • Sprouting Like Cockle Amongst the Wheat’

    Open Access•A M Pollard, Peter W Ditchfield et al.•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2012

  • Markets in Early Medieval Europe. Trading and 'Productive' Sites

    L Abrams•The English Historical Review•2004

  • Cremation vs. Inhumation

    Open Access•Giacomo Capuzzo, Christophe Snoeck et al.•Radiocarbon•2020

  • Dating Human Remains from the Historical Period in Belgium

    Anton Ervynck, M Boudin et al.•Radiocarbon•2014

  • Current Pretreatment Methods for AMS Radiocarbon Dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (Orau)

    Open Access•Fiona Brock, Thomas Higham et al.•Radiocarbon•2010

  • The Groningen Radiocarbon Calibration Program

    Open Access•Johannes Van Der Plicht•Radiocarbon•1993

  • The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)

    Open Access•Paula J Reimer, William E N Austin et al.•Radiocarbon•2020

  • Technical note

    Open Access•A M Pollard, Maura Pellegrini et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2011

  • You are not what you eat during physiological stress

    Open Access•Lori D''Ortenzio, M B Brickley et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2015

  • Isotopic evidence for divergent diets and mobility patterns in the A tacama D esert, northern C hile, during the L ate I ntermediate P eriod ( AD 900–1450)

    Open Access•Francisca Santana-Sagredo, Francisca Santana‐Sagredo et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2015

  • Infant mortality and isotopic complexity

    Open Access•Julia Beaumont, J Montgomery et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2015

  • Stable isotope evidence for 1500 years of human diet at the city of York, UK

    Open Access•Gundula Müldner, Michael P Richards et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2007

  • Diet and diversity at later medieval fishergate

    Open Access•Gundula Müldner, Michael P Richards et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2007

  • Collagen turnover in the adult femoral mid‐shaft

    Open Access•Robert E M Hedges, John G Clement et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2007

  • Connectivity and funerary change in early medieval Europe

    Open Access•Elliot Brownlee•Antiquity•2021

  • An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution

    Open Access•Helena Hamerow, Amy Bogaard et al.•European Journal of Archaeology•2020

  • A unique case of mandibular osteomyelitis arising from tooth germ infection in a 7,000-year-old infant from Siberia

    Open Access•Andrea Waters‐rist, Andrea L Waters-Rist•Dental Anthropology Journal•2018

  • Pediatric mandibular osteomyelitis

    Open Access•Angela R Lieverse, Daisuke Kubo et al.•Anthropological Science•2021

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation between human phosphate and water revisited

    Open Access•Valérie Daux, Christophe Lécuyer et al.•Journal of Human Evolution•2008

  • Body-objects' and personhood in the Iron and Viking Ages

    Open Access•Michael Hallstrøm Eriksen•World Archaeology•2020

  • Using stable nitrogen-isotopes to study weaning behavior in past populations

    Mark R Schurr•World Archaeology•1998

  • Diet and urbanisation in medieval Holland. Studying dietary change through carious lesions and stable isotope analysis

    Open Access•Rachel Schats, Ijk Van Hattum et al.•International Journal of…•2022

  • Don't all mothers love their children? Deposited infants as animate objects in the Scandinavian Iron Age

    Michael Hallstrøm Eriksen•World Archaeology•2017

  • Diet and status in Birka

    Open Access•Anna Linderholm, Charlotte Hedenstierna Jonson et al.•Antiquity•2008

  • Dark Age Economics' revisited

    Open Access•James H Barrett, Alison Locker et al.•Antiquity•2004

Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2024 - 2024 (1)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae