Rethinking #earlymedieval urbanism at Ipswich, Brandon Fathy uses New Materialism in this new article to show how cities emerged not from top-down planning but through dynamic “distributed agency” between people, materials, and landscapes shaping everyday life. doi.org/10.1080/0029...

What is really a jug? Read more about non-dualistic frameworks and how they relate to medieval bearded mask jugs in this open acces paper by L. M. Fuglevik: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Illustration: Scarborough ware Phase II jug (C37175/G71,373) (Museum of Cultural History)

Women figure in Denmark's elite Bronze Age oak coffin burials - but were they 'foreign women' (Fremde frau), victoms of warfare, or traders? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Photo: The Skrydstrup woman, Fig. 3 in Eikeland 2025 (above link)

This study of oak ship timbers from Viking ship burials in Norway showed that the Grønhaug ship is much older than previously thought, ready more in the open access paper by Daly, Kimball and Bill: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Not familiar with 'the plant turn' in archaeology? Here is an excellent introduction by B. Taylor - and it's open access!

The Hølland site is a key to the development of #ceramic production, from the Late #Roman #IronAge (AD 200–400) and throughout the Migration Period (AD 400–550) in Norway. Read more in our most recent online publication: