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This volume provides an overview of the present state of knowledge
of the archaeology of the Early and High Middle Ages. A
comprehensive account is given of the most recent reinterpretations
- dendrochronology, interpretations from cultural history and
historical modelling. The main focus is on the history of culture,
settlement, society and economy of the Western Slavs between the
Elbe/Saale and the Vistula. Brief summaries of the historical
framework and the history of Slavic Archaeology contextualise these
aspects. Access to many detailed questions is provided by a
thematically arranged bibliography.
The present volume provides an overview of the present state of
knowledge of the archaeology of the Early and High Middle Ages. A
comprehensive account is given of the most recent reinterpretations
a ' dendrochronology, interpretations from cultural history and
historical modelling. The main focus is on the history of culture,
settlement, society and economy of the Western Slavs between the
Elbe/Saale and the Vistula. Brief summaries of the historical
framework and the history of 'Slavic Archaeology' contextualise
these aspects. Access to many detailed questions is provided by a
thematically arranged bibliography.
The 15 articles in this volume are dedicated to the analysis of
fundamental cultural developments between Late Antiquity and the
Early Middle Ages. Archaeologists and historians offer new
perspectives on Central and Western Europe which do not simply
polarise between Romans and Germans. Central themes are the
relationship between historical studies and archaeology, the
beginnings of the Early Middle Ages, the archaeology of early
medieval a oepeoplesa, the role of burials, as well as trade and
exchange. The result is a complex picture of an epoch of decisive
change.
This volume analyses previous attempts to delineate ethnic
groupings with the help of archaeological finds. After a short
review of the history of these interpretations, central concepts
are examined (people, culture, race, language) and ethnological and
sociological concepts of identity are adduced. Against this
background, Brather undertakes a comparative description of the
methodological problems of ethnic reconstructions for the period
between the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, and contrasts them with
interpretations from cultural, economic and social history as
alternative approaches to an explanation which is closer to the
sources. This structural historical analysis places the explanatory
power of archaeological sources on a footing with those of literary
texts.
The 70th birthday of Heiko Steuer, Professor of Pre- and
Protohistory at Freiburg University from 1984 to 2005, andfor many
years one of the editors of the Reallexikon der Germanischen
Altertumskunde, has been the occasion for the presentation of this
collection of 35 papers. The six sections cover Steuer s research
fields: 1. Prehistory, 2. Antiquity, 3. The Early Middle Ages in
West and South Europe, 4. The Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe,
5. The High and Late Middle Ages, 6. The history of scholarship and
matters of method."
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