Fragmentation in the MIddle Ages

Please follow this link for the call for papers for a session at the
forthcoming Theoretical Archaeology Conference 2008 (University of
Southampton), entitled:

Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages

The session is organised by Ben Jervis and myself and is supported by
the Society for Medieval Archaeology in the UK.

http://scambimedievali.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/fragmentation-in-the-middle-ages-call-for-papers/

Members of this Forum may be particularly interested in one of the
themes which is:

"Transitions between periods, e.g. Saxon to Norman, early to high
medieval, late to post medieval"

Other themes on fragmentation for which we are particularly seeking
papers are:

• Divisions between material specialists, e.g. ceramicists,
numismatists, small finds or metalwork specialists
• Geographic boundaries, e.g. studies according to modern regional
and national boundaries (Kent, Italy) or those according to
contemporary boundaries (Wessex, Normandy)
• Landscape and settlement vs. object-based archaeology
• Cultural focus vs. biological/environmental focus (including human
and animal remains)
• Life and death archaeology, e.g. finds and settlements relating to
people’s lifestyles and those found within funerary landscapes
• Relationships between urban and rural archaeology
• Theme-based divisions, e.g. social, economic, cultural, military
• Fragmentation between professions, e.g. academia, heritage
(including museums), commercial archaeology and conservation

Please forward far and wide. The paper deadline is 1 September and
all submissions should be made via email to myself and Ben Jervis
(bpj106@soton.ac.uk) as well as submitted via the TAG 2008 online
submission form:

http://www.tagconference.org/submit-abstract