Browsing by Subject "Britain"

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    Dynamics of Religious Ritual: Migration and Adaptation in Early Medieval Britain
    (2019-08) Creager, Brooke
    How do migrations impact religious practice? In early Anglo-Saxon England, the practice of post-Roman Christianity adapted after the Anglo-Saxon migration. The contemporary texts all agree that Christianity continued to be practiced into the fifth and sixth centuries but the archaeological record reflects a predominantly Anglo-Saxon culture. My research compiles the evidence for post-Roman Christian practice on the east coast of England from cemeteries and Roman churches to determine the extent of religious change after the migration. Using the case study of post-Roman religion, the themes religion, migration, and the role of the individual are used to determine how a minority religion is practiced during periods of change within a new culturally dominant society.
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    Recognizing spatial and temporal relationships between Neolithic earthen monuments, Earth, and sky at Cranborne Chase, Southern Britain
    (2023-01) Burley, Paul D
    Cranborne Chase in southern England is a well-known area of Neolithic archaeology including numerous long barrows, the largest and longest cursus in Britain, and many other structures. This multi-disciplinary geoarchaeological research project reviews local and regional geologic and paleoenvironmental characteristics of Cranborne Chase and the adjoining South Hampshire Lowlands, with specific interest in the physiographic setting of Early- to Mid-Neolithic earthen long barrows and the Dorset Cursus. Locations, forms and architectural features of the earthen monuments are analyzed with regard to local and regional geologic, geomorphic, pedologic, topographic, paleoenvironmental, and astronomical conditions for the period of monument construction c. 3800 to 3200 BC. Cultural development in southern Britain c. the 4th millennium is reviewed in tandem with descriptions of natural physiographic and paleoenvironmental conditions that are unique to Cranborne Chase and the lowland. Historical and ethnographical information provides analogies with respect to prehistoric cultural astronomy. Spatial and temporal relationships are identified between elements of the landscape, skyscape, and monuments. Results of this study demonstrate that spatial and temporal relationships between the earthen structures and elements of the surrounding landscape, seascape, and skyscape are key to recognizing and understanding the symbolism and signification expressed by the monumental architecture. The cultural expresses spatial and temporal unification by alignment between Earth and sky, and the living and the dead. In that way, the cultural landscape is related to a Neolithic cosmology emphasizing certain elements of the observable landscape and skyscape, and belief in an astral afterlife.
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    Social Justice Framework for Child Welfare: The Agenda for a New Century. A Summary of Proceedings of the Conference Held June 23, 2000, at the University of Minnesota.
    (Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, University of Minnesota., 2001) Wattenberg, Esther, ed.
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    Warfare And Practice At Maiden Castle
    (2019-04) Harkleroad, Eric
    I examine the changing place of war, peace, and chronic insecurity in the lives of Iron Age people at Maiden Castle. Using GIS software, I examine the changing location of artifacts in the daily lives of people as well as the spatial relationships between these artifacts. Using ideas from Practice Theory I demonstrate how warfare went from a communal activity which was used to promote the idea of the community over the individual to an activity connected with prestige and individuality.