Week 11: Social structure and archaeology

Age groups

• read a presentation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Buckland, excavated by Vera Evison
• see an example of an Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch
• see the two drinking horns from Taplow 
• see a brief bio of Barbara Hanawalt
• see the toy swords and spear found in Staraia Ladoga

Descent groups, status and identity  

• see the sarcophagus of the female burial at St. Denis (believed to be of Queen Ardegunde) and some of the associated artifacts; see also the burial mounds and ship burial at Sutton Hoo with associated artifacts (helmet, belt buckle, shoulder clasps, scepter, spoons, and coins)