10 April Lecture Please join us at 5 pm on Wednesday, 10th April for the lecture by Dr Katie Haworth on, Life (and death) on the edge? Regionality, connectivity and networks in fifth- and sixth-century Cambridgeshire. or archaeologists working on the wealth of material culture that emerges from early medieval (5th- and 6th-century) cemeteries of southern and eastern Britain, markedly regional distributions of artefact types are immediately familiar. Early medieval Cambridgeshire is particularly interesting in this regard, with cemeteries producing evidence of a mixture of distinctive artefact types and dress fashions typical of both Norfolk-Suffolk to the east and the midlands and Thames valley to the west. The traditional view has been that artefactual distributions can be used to write cultural histories, largely concerned with migration and population displacement. Today, however, the question of early medieval ethnicity is approached from a much more nuanced perspective. Equally, cutting edge advances in archaeological science are now being marshalled to investigate the question of migration, independent of the traditional reliance on grave-goods as indicators of origin. There remains an important place within early medieval archaeology for using material culture on a regional scale to think about questions of community and connectivity. Based on data from Cambridgeshire and surrounding counties, this paper will reconsider the distribution and use of key artefact types, including small-long brooches and beads, as a means to examine the kind of regional networks and connectivity that emerged during the fifth and sixth centuries, the contexts of production and exchange of this material culture, and its active use in the construction of identity. Live stream at https://lnkd.in/e8AFUepk
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A list of my conference papers from the last 5-6 years. 2022 Assessing the Threat of the Makhool Dam to Heritage in the Central Tigris, Iraq. American Society of Oriental Research (ASOR), Virtual. 2021 Assessing Cultural Heritage in post-Conflict Iraq: The Case of Ashur. 24th Annual Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technology. 2020 Cultural Heritage as Community Empowerment in Northern Iraq. ASOR, Virtual. 2020 Capacity Building and Community Empowerment in Assur. British Institute at Ankara. Virtual. 2019 Assessing Cultural Heritage in post-Conflict Iraq. ASOR, San Diego, CA 2018 Return to Assur, ASOR, Denver, CO. 2017 The Challenges of Digitizing at-risk Heritage in Iraq. Routes d'Orient Conference, Sorbonne, Paris. 2017 Evaluating digitization as a strategy for museums at risk. Archéologie de la destruction. 2016 Artec Spider Scanning Project: Digitization as a Strategy for Protecting the Past. Joint Conference with Oxford's EAMENA Unit at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS)
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