Culturally-Scandinavian graves with animal remains in some key cemeteries of the Rus' - a comparative analysis of animal depositions in relation to id

该项目以关于维京时代人与动物关系重要性的背景研究为基础，旨在通过分析殡葬传统和习俗，特别是东欧维京人聚居地的一些关键墓地中北欧人与动物遗骸或缺乏动物遗骸一起埋葬的证据，来探索东部维京世界北欧人身份的地区差异和表现形式。这将与散居海外的西部维京人领土(如不列颠群岛和冰岛)以及斯堪的纳维亚本土的坟墓中供奉动物的证据进行比较。有或没有动物遗骸将被用来讨论北欧身份的谈判，以及将斯堪的纳维亚埋葬习俗转换和适应到新的土地和新的社会政治背景，如与移民模式、身份形成和文化接触动态有关的问题。

Building on background research on the importance of human-animal relationships in the Viking Age, this project aims toexplore the regional differences and manifestations of Norse identity in the eastern Viking world through an analysis ofmortuary traditions and practices, and specifically the evidence for Norse burials with animal remains - or lack thereof - insome key burial grounds of the Viking settlement in Eastern Europe. This will be compared to the evidence of animalofferings in graves in the territories of the western Viking diaspora (e.g. the British Isles and Iceland), and within theScandinavian homeland itself. The presence - or absence - of animal remains will be used to discuss the negotiation ofNorse identities as well as the translation and adaptation of Scandinavian burial customs into new lands and new sociopolitical contexts, as connected to migration patterns, identity formation and culture contact dynamics.