Bodzia : : a late Viking-age elite cemetery in Central Poland / / edited by Andrzej Buko ; editorial assistant, Dorota Cyngot ; contributors, Wiesław Bogdanowicz [and twenty-four others].

• Superior document: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 27
• TeilnehmendeR: Buko, Andrzej,; Cyngot, Dorota,; Bogdanowicz, Wiesław,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; Volume 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (656 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Bodzia is one of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the post-war period in Poland. It is one of the few cemeteries in Poland from the time of the origins of the Polish state. The unique character of this discovery is mainly due to the fact that a small, elite population was buried there. The burials there included people whose origins were connected with the Slavic, Nomadic-Khazarian and Scandinavian milieus. For the first time the evidence from this area is given prominence. This book is designed mainly for readers outside Poland. The reader is offered a collection of chapters, combining analyses and syntheses of the source material, and a discussion of its etno-cultural and political significance. The authors formulate new hypotheses and ideas, which put the discoveries in a broader European context. Contributors are Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Mateusz Bogucki, Andrzej Buko, Magdalena M. Buś, Maria Dekówna, Alicja Drozd-Lipińska, Władysław Duczko, Karin Margarita Frei, Tomasz Goslar, Tomasz Grzybowski, Zdzisław Hensel, Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke, Michał Kara, Joanna Koszałka, Anna B. Kowalska, Tomasz Kozłowski, Marek Krąpiec, Roman Michałowski, Michael Müller-Wille, T. Douglas Price, Tomasz Purowski, Tomasz Sawicki, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Stanisław Suchodolski and Kinga Zamelska-Monczak.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Looking Towards Bodzia: An Introduction / Andrzej Buko -- 1 The Archaeological Context of the Bodzia Cemetery and the Trade Route along the Middle and the Lower Vistula during the Middle and Late Viking Period / Mateusz Bogucki -- 2 The Historical Context of the Discoveries at Bodzia / Roman Michałowski -- 3 Bodzia: Site Location and History of Research / Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka -- 4 The Effect of Depositional and Post-Depositional Processes on the Preservation of Skeletal Remains in the Bodzia Cemetery / Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke -- 5 The Inventory of the Burials and their Contents / Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka -- 6 Analysis of the Skeletal Population from the Cemetery of Bodzia / Alicja Drozd-Lipińska and Tomasz Kozłowski -- 7 Overview of the Finds from the Bodzia Cemetery / Andrzej Buko -- 8 Merchants’ Implements (the Folding Balance) / Michał Kara -- 9 Weapons / Michał Kara -- 10 Status and Magic. Ornaments Used by the Bodzia Elites / Władysław Duczko -- 11 Glass Beads / Maria Dekówna and Tomasz Purowski -- 12 Iron Artifacts / Tomasz Sawicki -- 13 Costume Elements of Leather / Anna B. Kowalska -- 14 Ceramic and Wooden Containers / Kinga Zamelska-Monczak -- 15 Objects Made of Antler and Stone / Kinga Zamelska-Monczak -- 16 The Obol of the Dead / Stanisław Suchodolski -- 17 Description of the Cemetery, Organization of the Burial Space, the Burial Rites in the Light of the Cultural and Historical Determinants / Michał Kara -- 18 Tentative Reconstruction of Coffins / Tomasz Sawicki -- 19 Symbolic Aspects of the Remains of Wood from the Cemetery / Joanna Koszałka -- 20 Chronology of the Cemetery / Andrzej Buko and Michał Kara -- 21 Isotopic Proveniencing of the Bodzia Burials / T. Douglas Price and Karin Margarita Frei -- 22 Genetic Analysis of Selected Graves from the Cemetery / Wiesław Bogdanowicz , Tomasz Grzybowski and Magdalena M. Buś -- 23 The Cemetery at Bodzia in a Broader European Context / Michael Müller-Wille -- 24 The Cemetery at Bodzia in the Context of the Funerary Practices in the Polish Lands in the Late 10th–11th Century / Michał Kara -- 25 The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research / Andrzej Buko -- Bibliography -- Index.