Family in Medieval Society
A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13081954 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Gomes (0000-0001-5951-8937, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author), Ana Curto (0000-0003-3568-9322, University of Évora, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-20 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Genealogy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2313-5778 • E-ISSN: 2313-5778 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/genealogy8010020 |
| OpenAlex | W4391932639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 93 |
One of the periods with the greatest social, cultural, and religious changes was, without a doubt, the European medieval period. The concept of “Family” was one of the fields that gradually evolved, from individuals who shared the same biological lineage, to members of the same “House”. One of the ways to study the concept of “Family” in ancient periods is through a bioarchaeological perspective, where both anthropology and genetics have proven to be essential disciplines for studying “Families”. Through burial rituals, observing whether the graves were single or multiple, as is carried out in the study of human remains, we discuss the profound contribution of anthropology to the “Family” investigation, through mobility studies, the investigation of biological sex, observing certain congenital anomalies or, even, the study of certain ancient infectious diseases. Concerning genetics, the study of bones or teeth allows us to determine whether individuals were from the same close family or if they belonged to the same lineage through the maternal and paternal sides, being one of the only scientific ways of proposing social relationships between individuals, such as that created through adoption
Art · Bioarchaeology · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · History of Medicine Studies · Paleopathology and ancient diseases
Consanguineous marriages
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Fiefs And Vassals
Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age
Oxygen isotopes in bioarchaeology
The application of sulphur isotope analyses in archaeological research
The Study of Adoption in Archaeological Human Remains
Ancient DNA analysis of rare genetic bone disorders
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal
Changing Peoples and Practices
The long‐term impact of developmental stress. Evidence from later medieval and post‐medieval London (AD1117–1853)
Family Life in The Middle Ages
Non-metric traits, physiological stress indicators and paleopathological lesion on human skeletal remains from an early modern cemetery in Wyszyński Street, Wrocław, Poland (15th–18th centuries AD)
Childhood mobility revealed by strontium isotope analysis
Strontium Isotopes from the Earth to the Archaeological Skeleton
Combined metagenomic and archaeobotanical analyses on human dental calculus
Kinship analysis and allelic dropout
Genealogy
Difficulties in Kinship Analysis for Victims’ Identification in Armed Conflicts
The Osteological Paradox 20 Years Later
Bioarchaeology and Kinship
The Genesis of the Family Tree
Family graves? The genetics of collective burials in early medieval southern Germany on trial
Collective burials among agro-pastoral societies in later Neolithic Germany
Preliminary evidence for medieval Polish diet from carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes
Strangers in a Strange Land
Paleogenetic evidence of a Pyrenean Neolithic family
Stature and frailty during the Black Death
Ancient-DNA reveals an Asian type of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Scandinavia
Familiar Kinship? Palaeogenetic and Isotopic Evidence from a Triple Burial of the Cogotas I Archaeological Culture (Bronze Age, Iberian Peninsula)
Official” and “practical” kin
Brief communication
Brief communication
Morphological variation of major human populations based on nonmetric dental traits
Kinship and morphological similarity in the skeletal remains of individuals with known genealogical data (Bohemia, 19th to 20th centuries)
Stable isotope evidence for sex‐ and status‐based variations in diet and life history at medieval Trino Vercellese, Italy
Survival analysis of the Black Death
Sex differences in diet and life conditions in a rural Medieval Islamic population from Spain (La Torrecilla, Granada)
Entangled lives
Feminism, Social Science, and the Meanings of Modernity
Socio-cultural practices may have affected sex differences in stature in Early Neolithic Europe
The Family and Religious Ideologies in Medieval Europe
Non-metric variations in individuals who died during the perinatal period in past populations
Isotopic anthropology of rural German medieval diet
The Osteological Paradox
The Making of the Medieval Family
Mitogenomic diversity and stable isotopes provide insights into the maternal genetic history, mobility patterns, and diet of early medieval individuals from the Eastern Italian Alps
Early medieval Italian Alps
Rasudas
High status diet and health in Medieval Lisbon
The Ties That Bind
DNA insights into Neolithic society
Skeletal Kinship Analysis Using Developmental Anomalies of the Foot
Kinship and mobility during the prehistoric spread of farming
Conceiving relatedness
Social arrangements. Kinship, descent and affinity in the mortuary architecture of Early Neolithic Britain and Ireland
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |