''Medieval Archaeology'' is an annual
peer-reviewed academic journal
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covering the
archaeology
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of the
medieval
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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
Taylor & Francis
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. The
editor-in-chief
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is
Aleks McClain
Aleksandra McClain is an archaeologist who specialises in church archaeology and the study of the Middle Ages. She is editor of the journal ''Medieval Archaeology
''Medieval Archaeology'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering ...
(
University of York).
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
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''. 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'' (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
Archaeology Data Service
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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
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, "Magic for the Dead? The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials"
*2009:
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, "The Architectural Setting of the Mass in Early-medieval Ireland"
*2010:
Christopher Knüsel
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,
Catherine M. Batt,
Gordon Cook,
Janet Montgomery
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,
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,
Alan R. Ogden,
Carol Palmer,
Ben Stern,
John Todd, 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:
Lindsey Stirling
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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:
Patricia Murrieta-Flores 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 Archaeology, 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 socia ...
, "An Insular Reliquary from Melhus: The Significance of Insular Ecclesiastical Material in Early Viking-Age Norway"
*2019:
Cecilia Ljung
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, "Early Christian Grave Monuments and Ecclesiastical Developments in 11th-Century Sweden"
*2020:
Patrick Gleeson
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Career
Gleeson moved to San Francisco in the 1960s to teach in the English Department at San Francisco State. Gleeson began experimentin ...
, "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
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, which was acquired by
Taylor & Francis
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who then took over production.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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External links
* {{Official website, http://www.medievalarchaeology.co.uk/index.php/publications-2/journal/
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