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Doctrinal and physical marginality in Christian death: the burial of unbaptized infants in medieval Italy

Viking death: Pre-Christian rites of passage and funerary feasting

The Norse in Iceland

Colleen and Davide Zori are Baylor faculty members and archaeologists uncovering history in Italy. Dr. Colleen Zori serves as senior lecturer in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core in the Honors College and in the Department of Anthropology, and Dr. Davide Zori serves as associate professor of history and archaeology in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core and Department of History. In this Baylor Connections, the Zoris take listeners inside their research through the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project, which was featured on the Discovery channel Program Expedition Unknown.

Colleen and Davide Zori Baylor Connections

Colleen and Davide Zori

The Viking North Atlantic differs significantly from the popular image of violent raids and destruction characterizing the Viking Age in Northern Europe. In Iceland, Scandinavian seafarers discovered and settled a large uninhabited island. In order to survive and succeed, they adapted lifestyles and social strategies to a new environment. The result was a new society, the Icelandic Free State.This volume examines the Viking Age in Iceland through the discoveries and excavations of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) in Iceland's Mosfell Valley. Directed by Professor Jesse Byock with Field Director Davide Zori, MAP brings together scholars and researchers from Iceland, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. The Project incorporates the disciplines of archaeology, history, saga studies, osteology, zoology, paleobotany, genetics, isotope studies, place-names studies, environmental science, and historical architecture. The decade-long research of MAP has led to the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved Viking chieftain's farmstead, including a longhouse, a pagan cremation site, a conversion-era stave church, and a Christian graveyard.The research results presented here tell the story of how the Mosfell Valley developed from a ninth-century settlement of Norse seafarers into a powerful Icelandic chieftaincy of the Viking Age.

Viking Archeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project (Cursor Mundi)

Davide Zori is a medieval archaeologist with research concentrations in the Viking expansion into the North Atlantic and the Italian Middle Ages. He conducts archaeological fieldwork in Iceland addressing the interaction of the Norse settlers with new environments, the construction of a migrant society, and the subsequent evolution of endemic political systems. He also directs a project in central Italy that seeks to understand the phenomenon of castle-building that spread across central Italy in the 7th-10th centuries. He employs a multidisciplinary approach to the Middle Ages, combining material culture and written evidence. Dr. Zori joined the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core in 2014 and is affiliated faculty of the Department of History.

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Davide Zori, Ph.D., history and archaeology, Baylor University

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Davide Zori, Assistant Professor, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, Honors College Baylor University.

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Davide and Colleen Zori, Baylor University.

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