(Edited by Martin Carver) For decades scholars have puzzled over the true story of settlement in Britain between the fifth and eight centuries. Did the Romans leave? Did the Anglo-Saxons invade? What happened to the British? New light on these questions comes unexpectedly from Wasperton, a small village on the Warwickshire Avon, where archaeologists had the good fortune to excavate a complete cemetery and its prehistoric setting. The community reused an old Romano-British agricultural enclosure, and built burial mounds beside it. There was a score of cremations in Anglo-Saxon pots; but there were also unfurnished graves lined with stones and planks in the manner of western Britain. In a pioneering analysis, including radiocarbon and stable isotopes, the authors of this book have put this variety of burial practice into a credible sequence, and built up a picture of life at the time. Here there were people who were culturally Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon, pagan and Christian in continuous use of the same graveyard and drawing on a common inheritance. Here we can see the beginnings of England and the people who made it happen - not the kings, warriors and preachers, but the ordinary folk obliged to make their own choices: choices about what nation to build and which religion to follow. MARTIN CARVER is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of York; Dr CATHERINE HILLS is Senior Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at the University of Cambridge; Dr JONATHAN SCHESCHKEWITZ is Officer with the Ancient Monuments authority of Stuttgart.
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MARTIN CARVER is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of York; Dr CATHERINE HILLS is Senior Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at the University of Cambridge; Dr JONATHAN SCHESCHKEWITZ is Officer with the Ancient Monuments authority of Stuttgart.
Essential reading for every archaeologist and historian of late Roman and early medieval Europe. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Has much to offer students of late-Roman and post-Roman Britain. (...) As a reference for historians of early medieval Britain, this volume has much to recommend it. COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES Including newly-commissioned scientific and specialist analyses, it provides a comprehensive and welcome statement in English which offers new readings of the cemetery's sequence and significance. (...) This study offers a strong, acute and stimulating narrative that recognises the local and immediate in the long and broad perspectives. ANTIQUITYFeatures an up-to-date account of scholarly views on ethnicity and migration theory in Anglo-Saxon studies. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLGY The authors weave a convincing story of migration and acculturation, asking how indigenous Britons become Romanised and Saxonised and what degree of choice versus compulsion they experienced. (...) Martin Carver's final chapter discussing these issues ('Wasperton in Context') is a masterpiece that every archaeology student needs to read, no matter what their period of study, as an example of archaeological analysis and argument at its very best. SALONThis is not just an Anglo-Saxon cemetery report; it could be one of the most interesting and important yet published. (...) Careful arguments result in the beautifully written story of a community going through massive cultural changes. This is groundbreaking stuff: a new way to study the physical remains of these small communities should change the way we look at the end of Roman Britain and the start of the medieval world. BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY
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