Programme

25–26 March 2025, All Souls College, Oxford

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Day 1 (25th March)

09:30–09:45

Welcome and introduction

09:45–10:30

Teresa Fernández–Crespo (Universidad de Valladolid), Javier Ordoño (Arkikus)

Victims of martial victory celebrations in Neolithic France

10:30–11.15

Rick Schulting (University of Oxford)

What is normal? Burial in prehistoric British mortuary monuments as non–normative.

11:15–11:45

Coffee break (Wharton room)

11:45–12:30

Andrea Czermak, Rick Schulting (University of Oxford), Teresa Fernández-Crespo (Universidad de Valladolid)

Stress and Strife in Prehistory: Social Conflict at Early Bronze Age Charterhouse Warren

12:30–13:15

Ian Armit (University of York)

Disentangling the dead in Iron Age Britain

13:15–14:30

Lunch (Buttery)

14:30–15:15

Melanie Giles (University of Manchester)

‘Wilful pieces of mortality’: long biographies of trauma and care in bog bodies

15:15–16:00

Louise Loe (Oxford Archaeology)

Osteological insights into non-normative early to mid Roman rural burials, recently excavated in Oxfordshire

16:00–16:30

Tea break (Wharton room)

16:30–17:00

Discussion (Andrew Wilson > Chair/Discussant)

19:00h

Dinner (Bursar’s study)

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Day 2 (26th March)

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Day 2 (26th March)

09:30–10:15

Lindsay Lloyd–Smith (Wardell–Armstrong LLP)

Deviant burials at a Late Roman cemetery in Great Whelnetham, Suffolk, England: Evidence for a slave community?

10:15–11:00

Eileen Murphy (Queen’s University Belfast):

Interpreting Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Ireland using Bioarchaeological Approaches

11:00–11:30

Coffee break (Wharton room)

11:30–12:15

Andrew Reynolds (University College London)

The relationship between custom and law: a case study of deviant burial in early medieval England

12:15–13:00

John Blair (University of Oxford)

Killing the dead in medieval and early modern Europe: why we really can recognise it in deviant burials

13:00–13:30

Discussion (Andrew Wilson > Chair/Discussant)

The workshop will be livestreamed on Teams.