DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early ...
During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The transition from ‘furnished’ inhumation (those with grave goods to ...
Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or ...
LONDON — Like examining the growth rings of an ancient tree, scientists have developed a new way to analyze the “twigs” of human genetic family trees, revealing previously hidden patterns of migration ...
Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...
About 200 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, western Europe started making thousands of silver coins, signaling a transformation in the early medieval economy. A new chemical analysis of ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A historian of medieval England specializing in economic and monetary history has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize. Dr. Rory Naismith, professor of early ...