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Archaeology students unearth an early medieval burial pit during a training dig in England
For several years, Cambridge University’s archaeology department has partnered with the local charity Cambridge Past, Present ...
And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...
Croatia Week reports that researchers from Juraj Dobrila University of Pula conducted an excavation at Vrh Kosir, a Bronze Age burial mound on the island of Veli Brijunin in Croatia’s Brijuni National ...
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Status, Not Sickness, Determined Where Medieval Danes Were Buried
In A Nutshell Medieval Danish cemeteries show no spatial segregation of leprosy or TB sufferers: diseased individuals were ...
Medieval Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.
The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...
Falling ill with leprosy or tuberculosis wasn’t a death sentence for your social status in medieval Denmark, researchers have ...
Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...
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