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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Knut Andreas Bergsvik , Marion DowdPublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books ISBN: 9781789258073ISBN 10: 1789258073 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 28 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of contributors Preface Chapter 1: Caves in medieval Europe: religious and secular use Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Marion Dowd NORTHWESTERN EUROPE Chapter 2: Entering other realms: Sámi burials in natural rock cavities and caves in northern Fenno-Scandinavia between 900 BC and AD 1700 Asgeir Svestad Chapter 3: The use and perception of caves and rockshelters in late Iron Age and medieval Western Norway c. AD 550-1550 Knut Andreas Bergsvik Chapter 4: A holy cave and womb: the sanctuary on the island of Selja and the birth of the first Norwegian saints Alf Tore Hommedal Chapter 5: Signs from the Pictish underground: early medieval cave ritual at the Sculptor’s Cave, northeast Scotland (c. AD 400-900) Lindsey Büster and Ian Armit Chapter 6: Marking caves in Scotland and Iceland: characterising an early medieval phenomenon Kristján Ahronson Chapter 7: Saintly associations with caves in early medieval Ireland (AD 400-1169) Marion Dowd IBERIA AND THE MEDITTERANEAN Chapter 8: Hidden in the depths, far from people. Funerary activities in the Lower Gallery of La Garma and the use of natural caves as burial places in early medieval Cantabria, northern Spain Pablo Arias, Roberto Ontañón, Enrique Gutiérrez Cuenca, José Ángel Hierro Gárate, Francisco Etxeberria, Lourdes Herrasti and Paloma Uzquiano Chapter 9: Christian and Muslim patterns of secular and religious cave use in the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity and the early middle Ages (fifth/sixth to eleventh/twelfth centuries AD) Manel Feijoó Chapter 10: The occupation and use of natural caves in the Ligurian-Piedmontese region between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (fifth to late seventh century) Paolo de Vingo Chapter 11: The culture of rock-cut cemeteries and artificial ritual caves in Roman and Byzantine Malta Mario Buhagiar Chapter 12: Investigating cave dwelling in medieval Malta (AD 800-1530) Keith Buhagiar CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Chapter 13: The use of caves for religious purposes in early medieval Germany (AD 500-1200) Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm Chapter 14: Knights in the dark: on the function of Polish caves in the Middle Ages Michał Wojenka Chapter 15: Medieval cave sites in the Czech Republic Vladimír Peša Chapter 16: Bull Rock Cave (Býčí skála), Czech Republic, and its environs in the Middle Ages Martin Golec Chapter 17: The form and fabric of Late Antique and medieval cave use in Slovenia Agni Prijatelj Chapter 18: The triconchial medieval cave churches of Eski-Kermen (Crimea): recent results of investigations Nicolas V. DneprovskyReviews...an excellent volume...this important book highlights a previously under-appreciated aspect of cave archaeology in Europe. -- Archaeology Ireland It merits wide readership to encourage more concerted exploration of these sites which clearly formed, for many communities, important loci in their landscapes of work, belief and memory. * Medieval Settlement Research Group * [It is] successful in unpacking the depth and breadth of ritual, superstitious and popular medieval engagement with these natural places and spaces … Well-produced and extensively illustrated. * Medieval Archaeology * An excellent volume … this important book highlights a previously under-appreciated aspect of cave archaeology in Europe. * Archaeology Ireland * """...an excellent volume...this important book highlights a previously under-appreciated aspect of cave archaeology in Europe.""-- ""Archaeology Ireland""" Author InformationKnut Andreas Bergsvik is Professor of Archaeology in the University Museum at the University of Bergen, Norway. His main research interests are the human use of caves and rockshelters in Norway and social and economic change among hunter-fisher populations in Scandinavia. He has conducted a large number of archaeological excavations in western Norway. He is author of Ethnic Boundaries in Neolithic Norway (2006) and, together with Robin Skeates, he co-edited Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe (2012). Marion Dowd is Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology at the Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. For two decades her research has focused on the human use of caves in Ireland, and specifically the role of caves in prehistoric ritual and religion. She has directed numerous archaeological excavations in Irish caves, and has lectured and published widely on the subject. Her first book, The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (Oxbow, 2015), won the Tratman Award 2015 and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2016. 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