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This study deals with Early Modern burials in ancient monuments located nowhere near churches or execution sites. Examples are given from four prehistoric sites in different Swedish provinces, dating from the Early Neolithic through the Roman Period, with a total of 15 buried Early Modern individuals. Written sources along with details of the burial rite suggest that they are plague burials. Such were not welcome in churchyards because of concerns over the poorly understood contagion. Why people all over Sweden occasionally targeted ancient monuments specifically for this purpose is not clear. In one case, they saw the monument as the remains of a church. More generally, they knew that much older burials sanctified and lent some prior sanction to those sites.
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International Journal of Historical Archaeology is the first authoritative resource for scholarly research on this rapidly growing field. Articles - contributed by an international body of experts - contain current theoretical, methodological, and site-specific research. Exploring a wide-range of topics, articles focus on the post-1492 period and includes studies reaching into the Late Medieval period. In addition, the journal makes global connections between sites, regions, and continents.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology will fulfill the needs of archaeologists, students, historians, and historical preservationists as well as practionioners of other closely related disciplines.
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