[Bonetools] FW: Internet Archaeology 30: Atlas of Medieval Combs from Northern Europe

[S O'Connor]

Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of
York

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Archaeological Sciences

Division of AGES,  

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Internet Archaeology is pleased to announce the publication of 

 

"An Atlas of Medieval Combs from Northern Europe" by Steve Ashby

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue30/ashby_index.html

 

The publication costs of this article were met by a successful bid by the
author to the Research Committee at the Department of Archaeology at York.
This has resulted in the article being Open Access, in line with Internet
Archaeology's policy as a hybrid OA journal.

 

Summary:

As an aid to understanding chronology, economics, identity and culture
contact, the early medieval bone/antler hair-comb is an under-exploited
resource, despite the existence of an extensive literature borne out of a
long-standing tradition of empirical research. Such research has been
undertaken according to diverse traditions, is scattered amongst site
reports and grey literature, regional, national, and international journals,
and is published in a number of different languages. 

The present article provides a general synthesis of this data, together with
the author's personal research, situated within a broad view of chronology
and geography. It presents the author's classification of early medieval
composite combs, and applies this in a review of comb typology in space and
time. It makes use of recently excavated material from little-known and
unpublished sites, as well as the classic studies of familiar towns and
'emporia'. The atlas is intended for use as a reference piece that may be
accessed according to need, and read in a non-linear fashion. Thus, it may
act as a first port-of-call for scholars researching the material culture of
a particular spatio-temporal context, while simultaneously facilitating
rapid characterisation of freshly excavated finds material. It should
provide a useful complement to recent and ongoing question-oriented research
on combs.

 

Regards,

Judith

 

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