Reynolds, AJ;
(2018)
Lineage, genealogy and landscape: a high-resolution archaeological model for the emergence of supra-local society from early medieval England.
World Archaeology
, 50
(1)
pp. 121-136.
10.1080/00438243.2018.1500303.
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Abstract
This paper considers the socio-political implications of a series of closely spatially and temporally related early medieval cemeteries from England and how they might be read as charting the emergence of both individual communities and of collective supra-local society. The case study is from early post-Roman Britain in a region that during the 6th century AD became the historically documented Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. Four distinct communities appropriated an earlier burial landscape, arguably by a process of negotiation, reflecting the formation of a small-scale, supra-local society based around a site of occasional gathering. A key notion is that periodic gathering and local stability could be core features of large-scale polity formation. Overall, a case is made for the long-term cohesion of a local territory, reliant on an ancient mode of social organization.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Lineage, genealogy and landscape: a high-resolution archaeological model for the emergence of supra-local society from early medieval England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00438243.2018.1500303 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1500303 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | ineage; genealogy; gathering; assembly; social complexity; supra-local society. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10052468 |
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