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Finding Vikings in the Danelaw
Buckberry, Jo Montgomery, Janet Towers, Jacqueline R. Müldner, G. Holst, M. Evans, J. Gledhill, Andrew R. Neale, Naomi Lee-Thorp, Julia A.
Buckberry, Jo
Montgomery, Janet
Towers, Jacqueline R.
Müldner, G.
Holst, M.
Evans, J.
Gledhill, Andrew R.
Neale, Naomi
Lee-Thorp, Julia A.
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2014-10-10
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© 2014 Wiley. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This is the accepted version of the article Buckberry JL, Montgomery JA, Towers J, Müldner G, Holst M, Evans J, Gledhill A, Neale N and Lee-Thorp J (2014) Finding Vikings in the Danelaw. Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 33(4): 413-434, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12045
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Historical, artefactual and place-name evidence indicates that Scandinavian migrants moved to eastern England in the ninth century AD, settling in the Danelaw. However, only a handful of characteristically Scandinavian burials have been found in the region. One, widely held, explanation is that most of these Scandinavian settlers quickly adopted local Christian burial customs, thus leaving Scandinavians indistinguishable from the Anglo-Saxon population. We undertook osteological and isotopic analysis to investigate the presence of first-generation Scandinavian migrants. Burials from Masham were typical of the later Anglo-Saxon period and included men, women and children. The location and positioning of the four adult burials from Coppergate, however, are unusual for Anglo-Scandinavian York. None of the skeletons revealed interpersonal violence. Isotopic evidence did not suggest a marine component in the diet of either group, but revealed migration on a regional, and possibly an international, scale. Combined strontium and oxygen isotope analysis should be used to investigate further both regional and Scandinavian migration in the later Anglo-Saxon period.
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Buckberry JL, Montgomery J, Towers J, Müldner G, Holst M, Evans J, Gledhill A, Neale N and Lee-Thorp J (2014) Finding Vikings in the Danelaw. Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 33(4): 413-434.
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