Selene Mazza

• Viking Age archaeology
• Late Iron Age archaeology (Scandinavia)
• Early Medieval archaeology
• Northern-European Archaeology
• Death and burial
• Human-animal relations
• Zooarchaeology
• Osteoarchaeology
• Identities in archaeology
• Interaction between archaeology and Old-Norse literature

My current PhD project aims to look at Viking-Age graves with animal remains in the broad Norse world from the point of view of human-animal relationships, social zooarchaeology and relational ontologies. The project builds up on the research for my previous master’s theses, where I worked on cats in Late Iron-Age Scandinavia and Iceland (MA), and Viking-Age graves with animal remains in Scotland (MSc).

In parallel with my PhD project I am working on getting practical training in zooarchaeology and human osteology.