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  • Women of the Conversion Period: a biomolecular investigation of mobility in early medieval England

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  • Helena Hamerow, Sam Leggett, Christel Tinguely, Petrus Le Roux
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    Antiquity / Volume 98 / Issue 398 / April 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 February 2024, pp. 486-501
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    April 2024
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  • Exogamous marriage alliances involving royal women played a prominent role in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity in the seventh century AD. Yet the large number of well-furnished female burials from this period suggests a broader change in the role of women. The authors present the results of isotopic analysis of seventh-century burials, comparing male and female mobility and the mobility of females from well-furnished versus poorly/unfurnished burials. Results suggest increased mobility during the Conversion Period that is, paradoxically, most noticeable among women buried in poorly furnished graves; their well-furnished contemporaries were more likely to have grown up near to their place of burial.