{"product_id":"bodzia-a-late-viking-age-elite-cemetery-in-central-poland-9789004278295","title":"Bodzia: A Late Viking-Age Elite Cemetery in Central Poland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBodzia is one of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the post-war period in Poland. It is one of the few cemeteries in Poland from the time of the origins of the Polish state. The unique character of this discovery is mainly due to the fact that a small, elite population was buried there. The burials there included people whose origins were connected with the Slavic, Nomadic-Khazarian and Scandinavian milieus. For the first time the evidence from this area is given prominence. This book is designed mainly for readers outside Poland. The reader is offered a collection of chapters, combining analyses and syntheses of the source material, and a discussion of its etno-cultural and political significance. The authors formulate new hypotheses and ideas, which put the discoveries in a broader European context. Contributors are Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Mateusz Bogucki, Andrzej Buko, Magdalena M. Buś, Maria Dekówna, Alicja Drozd-Lipińska, Władysław Duczko, Karin Margarita Frei, Tomasz Goslar, Tomasz Grzybowski, Zdzisław Hensel, Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke, Michał Kara, Joanna Koszałka, Anna B. Kowalska, Tomasz Kozłowski, Marek Krąpiec, Roman Michałowski, Michael Müller-Wille, T. Douglas Price, Tomasz Purowski, Tomasz Sawicki, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Stanisław Suchodolski and Kinga Zamelska-Monczak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A cemetery at Bodzia was fully excavated during the years 2004 and 2007–9. This book, produced for international readers by an interdisciplinary team of twenty-five authors, presents the material from most possible perspectives. It is welcome to have so comprehensive a book accessible in English so soon. The book is richly illustrated, consists of twenty-five chapters... To sum up, this cemetery provides important evidence, and the book makes an interesting contribution to international research on burial customs, communication, and politics in northwestern Europe from approximately the mid-tenth to the mid-twelfth century.\" Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide, Speculum 92.4 (2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations...ix List of Tables...xxvii List of Contributors ...xxix  Looking Towards Bodzia: An Introduction...1    Andrzej Buko  Part 1: The Area of the Middle and Lower Vistula River Valley between the 10th–11th Centuries: Archaeology and History  1 The Archaeological Context of the Bodzia Cemetery and the Trade Route along the Middle and the Lower Vistula during the Middle and Late Viking Period...9    Mateusz Bogucki 2 The Historical Context of the Discoveries at Bodzia...34    Roman Michałowski   Part 2: The Bodzia Cemetery: Site Location, Environmental Data, Graves and their Contents 3 Bodzia: Site Location and History of Research...47    Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka 4 The Effect of Depositional and Post-Depositional Processes on the Preservation of Skeletal Remains in the Bodzia Cemetery...54    Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke 5 The Inventory of the Burials and their Contents...63    Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka Appendix: Wood and Plant Macro-remains Analysis...139    Joanna Koszałka 6 Analysis of the Skeletal Population from the Cemetery of Bodzia...143    Alicja Drozd-Lipińska and Tomasz Kozłowski  Part 3: Grave Goods and their Context 7 Overview of the Finds from the Bodzia Cemetery...163    Andrzej Buko 8 Merchants’ Implements (the Folding Balance)...166    Michał Kara 9 Weapons...177    Michał Kara Appendix: Metallographic Analyses of Selected Finds from a Young Warrior’s Grave (E864\/I)...197    Zdzisław Hensel 10 Status and Magic. Ornaments Used by the Bodzia Elites...202    Władysław Duczko 11 Glass Beads...222    Maria Dekówna and Tomasz Purowski 12 Iron Artifacts...262    Tomasz Sawicki 13 Costume Elements of Leather...272    Anna B. Kowalska 14 Ceramic and Wooden Containers...288    Kinga Zamelska-Monczak 15 Objects Made of Antler and Stone...304    Kinga Zamelska-Monczak 16 The Obol of the Dead...313    Stanisław Suchodolski  Part 4: Funeral Rites 17 Description of the Cemetery, Organization of the Burial Space, the Burial Rites in the Light of the Cultural and Historical Determinants...343    Michał Kara 18 Tentative Reconstruction of Coffins...412    Tomasz Sawicki 19 Symbolic Aspects of the Remains of Wood from the Cemetery...421    Joanna Koszałka  Part 5: Chronology of the Cemetery 20 Chronology of the Cemetery...427    Andrzej Buko and Michał Kara Appendix 1: AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia...438    Tomasz Goslar Appendix 2: Radiometric Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia...442    Marek Krąpiec  Part 6: Locals or Aliens? 21 Isotopic Proveniencing of the Bodzia Burials...447    T. Douglas Price and Karin Margarita Frei 22 Genetic Analysis of Selected Graves from the Cemetery...465    Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Tomasz Grzybowski and Magdalena M. Buś  Part 7: European Contexts of the Bodzia Cemetery 23 The Cemetery at Bodzia in a Broader European Context...481    Michael Müller-Wille 24 The Cemetery at Bodzia in the Context of the Funerary Practices in the Polish Lands in the Late 10th–11th Century...513    Michał Kara  Part 8: The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research 25 The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research...525    Andrzej Buko  Bibliography...557 Index...602","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210653524311,"sku":"9789004278295","price":273.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bodzia-a-late-viking-age-elite-cemetery-in-central-poland-9789004278295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}