Anglo-Saxon Archaeology

This book provides a factual, descriptive archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England. It offers an account of the range of archaeological evidence from the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon settlements to the eve of the Norman Conquest, and discusses in detail the problems of retrieving and identifying (in particular dating) it. It then reviews the osteological and other scientific evidence for the physical conditions of the human population - their lives, health, diet and environment. The section on artefacts that follows - the longest part of the book - provides an illustrated and fully referenced overview of Anglo-Saxon artefacts and their apparent practical and symbolic functions. The final chapter discusses production and trade, in the very broad terms of what people did, where they lived and moved, and how they kept contact with one another.

Designed to complement The Anglo-Saxon World, Anglo-Saxon Archaeology offers a much-needed, practical undergraduate textbook for courses in Anglo-Saxon archaeology.

Proposed contents:
1. The forms of evidence
2. Chronology
3. Anglo-Saxon Populations
4. Anglo-Saxon Artefacts
5. Production and Exchange