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Old Bones

Old Bones

Andy Earnshaw
Education, Society & Culture

Exploring the past, one skeleton at a time.

www.oldbones.co.uk

34 - Wayland's Smithy - Liminal Smiths in Anglo-Saxon England
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  • 34 - Wayland's Smithy - Liminal Smiths in Anglo-Saxon England

    In this episode, we discuss the evidence for Anglo-Saxon smiths, the people who created the artefacts at Sutton Hoo and other princely burials. To do this we analyse the Neolithic tomb called Wayland's Smithy and the legend associated with its namesake.

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    Thu, 29 Feb 2024
  • 33 - Sutton Hoo - Mercury Rivers

    Sutton Hoo is the most spectacular archaeology discovery in British history. We explore what this tells us about the Anglo-Saxons' relationship to themselves, their neighbours and their past.

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    Tue, 26 Sep 2023
  • 32 - Yeavering Pt. 2 - Of Gods and Priests, Kings, Queens and Bede

    What was it like to be pagan and Christain the next?

    In this episode, we visit the site of Yeavering and its many strange burials to try and understand what the conversion of England must have felt like. We go beyond the historical story and explore the actual day to day "experience" of conversion.

    Next episode: Sutton Hoo and the Performance of Kingship

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    Sources:

    Taylor, Brian Hope. "Yeavering—an Anglo-British Centre of Early Northumbria." (1977).
    An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede

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    Mon, 18 Apr 2022
  • 31 - Yeavering Pt 1: The Rise of the Anglo-Saxon Kings

    How do we go from the society we met last time, one that is primarily equal and poor to the medieval image of kings, men with wealth and power near unimaginable to the ordinary peasant.

    In this episode, we visit the site of Yeavering and its many strange burials to try and understand the social dynamics that resulted in kingliness.

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    Next episode: Yeavering & The Rise of Christianity

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    Sources:

    Taylor, Brian Hope. "Yeavering—an Anglo-British Centre of Early Northumbria." (1977).


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    Fri, 29 Oct 2021
  • 30 - Growing Up in Early Anglo-Saxon England

    What was life like in the 400s and 500s CE? That question is not an easy one.

    In this episode, we look at the funerary evidence for each stage of life during this period. We understand what identity was developed and how that was closely connected to what individuals did during life as well as the important cultural concerns at the time.

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    Next episode: Yeavering & Early Anglo-Saxon Elites

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    Sources:

    Stoodley, N. (2000). From the cradle to the grave: age organization and the early Anglo-Saxon burial rite. World Archaeology, 38(3), 456-472.

    Gowland, R. (2006). Ageing the past: examining age identity from funerary evidence. In R. Gowland & C. Knüsel (Eds.), Social archaeology of funerary remains (pp. 143-155). Oxford: Oxbow Books.

    Lucy, S. (2020). Gender and gender roles. In H. Hamerow, D. A. Hinton, & S. Crawford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Squires, K. E. (2013). Piecing together identity: a social investigation of early Anglo-Saxon cremation practices. Archaeological Journal, 170, 154-200.

    Martin, T. F. (2020). "Casting the Net Wider: Network Approaches to Artefact Variation in Post-Roman Europe." Journal of archaeological method and theory 27(4): 861-886.


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    Sat, 07 Aug 2021
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