''Medieval Archaeology'' is an annual

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covering the

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of the

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period, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in 1957 by the

Society for Medieval Archaeology The Society for Medieval Archaeology was founded in 1957. Its purpose was to publish a journal on medieval archaeology and organise conferences and events around the subject. It was the third archaeological society founded with a focus on a particul ...

and is published on their behalf by

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. The

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is Aleks McClain (

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History

In the mid-20th century, archaeology in Britain was dominated by interests in prehistory and the classical period. The Society for Medieval Archaeology was founded in the 1950s to share information about medieval archaeology, and to publish a journal similar to the '' Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society''. The cost of producing the journal meant that external grants were needed early on, supplementing the society's membership fees. As a result, excavation reports were common especially in early volumes of the journal. ''Medieval Archaeology'' inspired the creation of other similarly themed academic journals, '' Archéologie mediévale'' (French), '' Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters'' (German), and ''

Archeologia Medievale ''Archeologia Medievale'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of post-classical archaeology and the history of material culture Material culture is the aspect of social reality grounded in the objects and architecture that surround people. It ...

'' (Italian). To mark the Society for Medieval Archaeology's 50th anniversary in 2006, the first 50 volumes of ''Medieval Archaeology'' were made available online via the

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and are free to access. In 2007, ''Medieval Archaeology'' began including abstracts translated into French, German, and Italian.

Martyn Jope Award

Since 2007, the Society has given the Martyn Jope Award to "the best novel interpretation, application of analytical method or presentation of new findings published in its journal". *2007: Stuart Brookes, "Boat-rivets in Graves in pre-Viking Kent: Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Boat-burial Traditions" *2008: Roberta Gilchrist, "Magic for the Dead? The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials" *2009: Tomás Ó Carragáin, "The Architectural Setting of the Mass in Early-medieval Ireland" *2010: Christopher Knüsel, Catherine M. Batt, Gordon Cook,

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, Gundula Müldner, Alan R. Ogden,

Carol Palmer Carol Palmer is a British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist. She is currently Director of the British Institute in Amman, an Honorary Fellow at Bournemouth University, and a part of the Thimar collective. Her primary resear ...

, Ben Stern,

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, and Andrew S Wilson, "The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach" *2011: Naomi Sykes and Ruth F. Carden, "Were Fallow Deer Spotted (OE *pohha/*pocca) in Anglo-Saxon England? Reviewing the Evidence for Dama dama damain Early Medieval Europe" *2012: Annemarieke Willemsen, "‘Man is a sack of muck girded with silver’: Metal Decoration on Late-medieval Leather Belts and Purses from the Netherlands" *2013: Adrián Maldonado, "Burial in Early Medieval Scotland: New Questions" *2014: Charlotte Behr and Tim Pestell, "The Bracteate Hoard from Binham — An Early Anglo-Saxon Central Place?" *2015:

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and Karen Milek, "Woven Cultures: New Insights into Pictish and Viking Culture Contact Using the Implements of Textile Production" *2016: Mary Lewis, "Work and the Adolescent in Medieval England AD 900–1550: The Osteological Evidence" *2017:

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and Howard Williams, "Placing the Pillar of Eliseg: Movement, Visibility and Memory in the Early Medieval Landscape" *2018: Aina Heen-Pettersen and

Griffin Murray Griffin Murray is an Irish archaeologist and art historian specialising in medieval Ireland and Insular art–especially metalwork–in the period between 400–1550 AD. His interests include identifying and contextualizing the social role of med ...

, "An Insular Reliquary from Melhus: The Significance of Insular Ecclesiastical Material in Early Viking-Age Norway" *2019:

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, "Early Christian Grave Monuments and Ecclesiastical Developments in 11th-Century Sweden" *2020: Patrick Gleeson, "Archaeology and Myth in Early Medieval Europe: Making the Gods of Early Ireland"

Publication history

In 1963, a double volume issue was printed as a printer's strike the previous year meant there had been no journal. Until 2015 the journal was published by

Maney Publishing Maney Publishing was an independent academic publishing company that was taken over by Taylor & Francis in 2015. Maney Publishing specialised in peer-reviewed academic journals in materials science and engineering, the humanities, and healt ...

, which was acquired by

who then took over production.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

References

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