TY - BOOK ID - 81146746 TI - Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries : kinship, community and mortuary space AU - Sayer, Duncan AU - Sayer, Duncan, PY - 2020 SN - 152615384X 9781526153845 PB - Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Anglo-Saxons KW - Merovingians KW - Cemeteries KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies. KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Social archaeology KW - Antiquities. KW - Funeral customs and rites KW - Kinship KW - Social life and customs. KW - History. KW - Grave goods KW - Great Britain KW - France KW - History KW - Archaeology KW - Archaeological digs KW - Archaeological excavations KW - Digs (Archaeology) KW - Excavation sites (Archaeology) KW - Ruins KW - Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) KW - Funerals KW - Mortuary ceremonies KW - Obsequies KW - Manners and customs KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Burial KW - Cremation KW - Cryomation KW - Dead KW - Mourning customs KW - Burial grounds KW - Burying-grounds KW - Churchyards KW - Graves KW - Graveyards KW - Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) KW - Memorial parks (Cemeteries) KW - Memory gardens (Cemeteries) KW - Necropoleis KW - Necropoles KW - Necropoli KW - Necropolises KW - Death care industry KW - Saxons KW - Methodology KW - Burial. KW - Cemetery Organization. KW - Community. KW - Early Anglo-Saxon. KW - Kinship. KW - Merovingian. KW - Mortuary Archaeology. KW - Social Archaeology. KW - Social Identity. KW - Spatial Archaeology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:81146746 AB - Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, using a multi-dimensional methodology to move beyond artefacts. It offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistically focused perspective. The physical communication of digging a grave and laying out a body was used to negotiate the arrangement of a cemetery and to construct family and community stories. This approach foregrounds community, because people used and reused cemetery spaces to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased, based on their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social archaeology. ER -