scholarly journals Horse Burial in Lombard Italy: Crossing Cultural and Afterlife Boundaries in Social Representation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-67
Author(s):  
Irina Mattioli
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Unique Association ◽  
Unique Status

The custom of horse burial, of foreign extraction, was carried across the Italian borders by the Lombards during their migration in 568 AD. The buried horses are linked to a variety of human remains: not only warriors, but also young women, adult males without weapons, and men who did not possess the osteological markers of warriors. The focus is on one of the most interesting examples in Lombard Italy, the necropolis of Spilamberto, due to the unique association of horses with young ladies. This paper argues that the horses buried in the Italian Lombard necropolises (late sixth / seventh century), were cultural symbols borrowed from the warfare sphere, but primarily used, in death, as emblems of unique status, whether or not there was a factual involvement in warfare-matters during life.

The Middle English Life of Saint Dorothy in Trinity College, Dublin MS 319: Origins, Parallels, and Its Relationship to Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen

Traditio ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 259-284
Author(s):  
Larissa Tracy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Greek Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legenda Aurea

During the Middle Ages, collections of hagiography were among the most widely circulated texts, serving as both inspirational and instructional stories. The legends of virgin martyrs were some of the most popular. These young women were venerated for their ability to withstand torture in defiance of tyranny and served as models for medieval piety. One of these accounts, the legend of Saint Dorothy, is extant in at least three different Middle English versions, including select manuscripts of the 1438 Gilte Legende and Osbern Bokenham's 1447 Legendys of Hooly Wummen. The earlier history of the legend of Saint Dorothy, unknown in Greek tradition and venerated in the West since the seventh century, has been well described by Kirsten Wolf in her edition of the Icelandic redaction. Despite its relationship to many of the other fictitious hagiographical legends that came into existence in the fourth and fifth centuries based on the various calendars and martyrologies, and its development as a virgin martyr legend, Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230–1298) did not include the legend of Saint Dorothy in his Legenda aurea, compiled between 1252 and 1260.

Raman spectroscopic analysis of human remains from a seventh century cist burial on Anglesey, UK

2006 ◽  
Vol 387 (3) ◽  
pp. 821-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howell G. M. Edwards ◽  
Andrew S. Wilson ◽  
Nik F. Nik Hassan ◽  
Andrew Davidson ◽  
Andrew Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Spectroscopic Analysis ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Raman Spectroscopic ◽  
Raman Spectroscopic Analysis

A Short Passage of Time: the Dating of the Hazleton Long Cairn Revisited

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. 45-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Meadows ◽  
Alistair Barclay ◽  
Alex Bayliss
Keyword(s):  
Short Interval ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Primary Phase ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Time Since Death ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
The Third ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Prefer Model

Forty-four radiocarbon results are now available from the Hazleton North long cairn, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework. Three alternative archaeological interpretations of the sequence are given, each with a separate Bayesian model. In our preferred model the cairn is considered to be a unitary construction, following on from the pre-cairn midden and other activity after a short interval during which the site was cultivated; bodies of the recently dead were subsequently interred in the chambered areas. Further human remains were deposited in the entrances to the chambers slightly later in the Neolithic, after the primary phase of use of the cairn for burials. This model suggests that the cairn was constructed in the first half of the thirty-seventh century cal. bc, and that its primary use for burial lasted for only two or three generations, ending probably in the 3620s cal. bc. A second model which varies only in postulating continuity between the pre-cairn activity and the cairn itself has poor overall agreement, suggesting that this interpretation is improbable. The third model explores the possibility that some of the human remains (those where the deposition of intact corpses cannot be strongly inferred from the archaeological record) may have been curated for a considerable time since death when deposited in the tomb. This interpretation suggests a slightly later date for the construction of the cairn, in the middle decades of the thirty-seventh century cal. bc, and suggests that any human remains which were not interred as corpses were less than a century old when deposited. The correspondence between the bones most likely, on chronological grounds, to be ‘ancestral’ and those most likely, on archaeological grounds, not to have been deposited as intact corpses is, however, poor. For this reason we feel there is no clear evidence that the human remains at Hazleton were not deposited shortly after the deaths of the individuals concerned, and we prefer model 1.

scholarly journals Serious Mortality: the Date of the Fussell's Lodge Long Barrow

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. 65-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wysocki ◽  
Alex Bayliss ◽  
Alasdair Whittle
Keyword(s):  
Primary Structure ◽  
Bayesian Model ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Two Phases

Twenty-seven radiocarbon results are now available from the Fussell's Lodge long barrow, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework. Three alternative archaeological interpretations of the sequence are given, each with a separate Bayesian model. It is hard to decide between these, though we prefer the third. In the first (following the excavator), the construction is a unitary one, and the human remains included are by definition already old. In the second, the primary mortuary structure is seen as having two phases, and is set within a timber enclosure; these are later closed by the construction of a long barrow. In that model of the sequence, deposition began in the thirty-eighth century cal. bc and the mortuary structure was extended probably in the 3660s–3650s cal. bc; the long barrow was probably built in the 3630s–3620s cal. bc; ancestral remains are not in question; and the use of the primary structure may have lasted for a century or so. In the third, preferred model, a variant of the second, we envisage the inclusion of some ancestral remains in the primary mortuary structure alongside fresh remains. This provides different estimates of the date of initial construction (probably in the last quarter of the thirty-eighth century cal. bc or the first half of the thirty-seventh century cal. bc) and the duration of primary use, but agrees in setting the date of the long barrow probably in the 3630s–3620s cal. bc. These results are discussed in relation to the development and meanings of long barrows at both national and local scales.

scholarly journals Talking About My Generation: the Date of the West Kennet Long Barrow

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Bayliss ◽  
Alasdair Whittle ◽  
Michael Wysocki
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Model ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
The People ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Made In

Thirty-one radiocarbon results are now available from the West Kennet long barrow, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework. Two alternative archaeological interpretations of the sequence are given, each with a separate Bayesian model. In our preferred interpretation, the barrow is seen as a unitary construction (given the lack of dating samples from the old ground surface, ditches or constructional features themselves), with a series of deposits of human remains made in the chambers following construction. Primary deposition in the chambers is followed by further secondary deposition of some human remains, including children, and layers of earth and chalk, the latest identifiable finds in which are Beaker sherds. In the Bayesian model for this sequence, the construction of the monument at West Kennet, as dated from the primary mortuary deposits, occurred in 3670–3635 cal. bc, probably in the middle decades of the thirty-seventh century cal. bc. The last interments of this initial use of the chambers probably occurred in 3640–3610 cal. bc. The difference between these two distributions suggests that this primary mortuary activity probably continued for only 10–30 years. After a hiatus probably lasting for rather more than a century, the infilling of the chambers began in 3620–3240 cal. bc and continued into the second half of the third millennium cal. bc. In an alternative interpretation, we do not assume that all the people dated from the primary mortuary deposits were placed in the monument in a fleshed or partially articulated condition; they could therefore have died before the monument was built, although they must have died before the end of the formation of the mortuary deposit. In the Bayesian model for this interpretation, the monument appears to belong either to the thirty-seventh century cal. bc or the mid-thirty-sixth century cal. bc, and deposition again appears short-lived, but the model is unstable. Results are discussed in relation to the setting and sequence of the local region.

RETHINKING HARDOWN HILL: OUR WESTERNMOST EARLY ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY?

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Austin
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Burial Site ◽  
Considerable Distance ◽  
Subsequent Discussion

This paper reassesses the early Anglo-Saxon assemblage from Hardown Hill, Dorset. Wingrave excavated the objects in 1916 but apart from his 1931 report, and Evison's 1968 analysis, there has been little subsequent discussion. Despite a lack of human remains, the assemblage has been interpreted as representing an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery – our westernmost burial site by a considerable distance and one that pre-dates the historically attested seventh-century expansion of Wessex. The following typological reclassification and contextual analysis casts serious doubts on a funerary context. Instead, an alternative interpretation is presented that views the assemblage as a useful collection of metalwork, intended to be reforged and recycled, which was presumably deposited for safekeeping and never retrieved. Such a reinterpretation highlights the need for a critical reappraisal of material from older excavations. It also has implications for our understanding of post-Roman Dorset, and for the distribution of fifth- and sixth-century Anglo-Saxon material culture more broadly.

Characterization of Tamm-Horsfall Urinary Glycoprotein

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 420-421
Author(s):  
John P. Robinson ◽  
J. David Puett
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Circular Dichroism ◽  
Secondary Structure ◽  
Quaternary Structure ◽  
Normal Adult ◽  
Morphological Properties ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Circular Dichroïsm ◽  
Urinary Glycoprotein

Much work has been reported on the chemical, physical and morphological properties of urinary Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THG). Although it was once reported that cystic fibrotic (CF) individuals had a defective THG, more recent data indicate that THG and CF-THG are similar if not identical.No studies on the conformational aspects have been reported on this glycoprotein using circular dichroism (CD). We examined the secondary structure of THG and derivatives under various conditions and have correlated these results with quaternary structure using electron microscopy.THG was prepared from normal adult males and CF-THG from a 16-year old CF female by the method of Tamm and Horsfall. CF female by the method of Tamm and Horsfall.

The associations of age and dentition status with caries treatment in adult males

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 609-614
Author(s):  
JW Reinhardt ◽  
CW Douglass ◽  
JE Alman ◽  
HH Chauncey
Keyword(s):  
Adult Males ◽  
Caries Treatment

Severe Paradoxical Dysphonia in Two Young Women

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Collins ◽  
Robert McDonald ◽  
Robert Stanley ◽  
Timothy Donovan ◽  
C. Frank Bonebrake
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Therapeutic Regimen ◽  
Instrumental Data ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This report describes an unusual and persistent dysphonia in two young women who had taken a therapeutic regimen of isotretinoin for intractable acne. We report perceptual and instrumental data for their dysphonia, and pose a theoretical basis for the relationship of dysphonia to this drug. We also provide recommendations for reducing the risk of acquiring a dysphonia during the course of treatment with isotretinoin.

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