Week 5: Rural archaeology

        Medieval villages

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 76-89 and 101-105; Carver and Klapste 97-125, 163-167
• visit the site of Ruralia as well as those of  Vorbasse, Březno, Pfaffenschlag, and Okehampton Park
• see a distribution map of the most important sites mentioned in the lecture
• see the Hekla volcano in Iceland
• visit the medieval village of Wharram Percy


       Farm houses and farming. Paleoethnobotany and zooarchaeology 

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 89-102, 154-164, and 181-203; Carver and Klapste 126-146
• Greene and Moore 198-214
• see the medieval village in West Stow and an example of clay oven
• for an early rural site outside the frontiers of the Roman Empire, see a brief presentation, as well as the plan and the excavated long-houses (with reconstruction) and manor from Feddersen Wierde
• see a brief survey of early medieval houses and building techniques  in England and see a penny of Edward I
• see a survey of timber-framed architecture
  
• see brief introductions to paleo(ethno)botany and zooarchaeology
• see an explanation of coppicing and pollarding, and visit the Staverton Park in Suffolk, with some of the oldest trees in England