Brief Lives? Artefacts, memory and the afterlife of medieval monuments
(2021)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C. (2021). Brief Lives? Artefacts, memory and the afterlife of medieval monuments. In A. Richardson, & M. Allen (Eds.), Building on the Past. Medieval and postmedieval essays in honour of Tom Beaumont James (187-199). BAR
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The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe? (2021)
Journal Article
Gutiérrez, A., Gerrard, C., Zhang, R., & Wang, G. (2021). The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe?. Antiquity, 95(383), 1213-1230. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.95The importation of Chinese porcelain and celadon into Europe has long been thought to have first begun around the thirteenth century AD. A unique group of Chinese ceramic sherds from archaeological contexts in Spain dated to between the ninth and ele... Read More about The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe?.
The pot, knife and the ring: an archaeology of later medieval material culture (2021)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C., & O'Donnell, R. (2021). The pot, knife and the ring: an archaeology of later medieval material culture. In M. Müller (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003194866-25During the Middle Ages most people lived in the countryside. The residents of towns and elite sites and consumers of high-culture and high-art remained a minority, though they grew in numbers throughout the period. The mass of rural people features o... Read More about The pot, knife and the ring: an archaeology of later medieval material culture.
The archaeology of a landslide: Unravelling the Azores earthquake disaster of 1522 and its consequences (2021)
Journal Article
Gerrard, C., Forlin, P., Froude, M., Petley, D., Gutierrez, A., Treasure, E., …Oliveira, N. (2021). The archaeology of a landslide: Unravelling the Azores earthquake disaster of 1522 and its consequences. European Journal of Archaeology, 24(3), 388-411. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.4The multidisciplinary research described here shows how archaeologists can help reconstruct past seismic episodes and understand the subsequent relief operation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction processes. In October 1522, a major earthquake and la... Read More about The archaeology of a landslide: Unravelling the Azores earthquake disaster of 1522 and its consequences.