Melting Pot: new research on the material culture of food in Viking-Age England

Abstract

Though often seen in purely nutritional terms, food is central to the production of identity. This is especially true in contexts of migration, culture contact, and social/economic change, and thus holds significant interpretative potential in the study of the Viking Age. Through a combination of traditional and novel approaches to ceramic study, archaeobotanical and biomolecular techniques, and zooarchaeological, historical and literary contextualisation, this AHRC-funded project seeks to explore the cooking and eating habits of the occupants of 9th-11th century England.

The Medieval Seminar Series is sponsored by the World Archaeology Section at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and the British Museum.

All meetings start at 6.15pm at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Attendees are invited to bring news items for announcement before the start of each seminar. This final seminar will be followed by a summer party in the Institute of Archaeology Staff and Research Student Common Room.

• The programme for the 2018-19 Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series is available to download here»

Seminar Series Convenors:

• Sue Brunning (British Museum)
• Andrew Reynolds (Institute of Archaeology)