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100			_aSayer, Duncan _eauthor
245			_aReconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England _ccreated by Duncan Sayer &Sam D. Dickinson
264			_bTaylor & Francis _c2013
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520			_aLittle has been written about female fertility and maternal mortality from an archaeological perspective. Typically debates focus on the physical aspects of childbirth, ignoring an obvious truth: the biggest single cause of death for women was childbirth. Whether death took place as a result of mechanical malpresentation, infection or blood loss, the root cause was undeniable. In this article we argue that post-mortem extrusion is improbable and that young infants and women found buried together are likely to have died together. However, most deaths would not have been simultaneous and so we build on demographic data to conclude that the early Anglo-Saxons engaged institutions which controlled female sexuality. Late marriage, cultural and legal taboos and an emphasis on mature fertility acted to limit the probability of death; however, the risk to the individual was real and each funerary party was the agent that constructed death ways to manage loss.
650			_a Taphonomy
650			_acoffin birth
650			_amaternal mortality
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2013.799044
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