From The Baltic To The Black Sea: Studies In Medieval Archaeology (one World Archaeology)

From the Baltic to the Black Sea offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Selections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations, and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. The book challenges the intellectual assumptions of medieval archaeology and questions its relationship to history and prehistory. It exposes the limitations of a strictly empirical approach to studying the period when written history began and the early medieval states emerged. -- Publishers description List of contributors Foreword • P. J. Ucko Contents Preface • David Austin & Leslie Alcock Introduction • David Austin & Leslie Alcock OBJECTIVES OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1 The 'proper study' of medieval archaeology • David Austin 2 The 'proper study' ofmedieval archaeology: a case study • David Austin & Julian Thomas 3 Medieval archaeology and the tyranny of the historical record • Timothy C. Champion 4 A comparative study of Czech and British medieval rural settlement archaeology: towards whole landscapes • Martin Gojda EARLY STATE AND ETHNIC FORMATIONS 5 Byzantium and the Avars: the archaeology of the first 70 years of the Avar era • Istvan Bóna 6 Connections between Scandinavia and the East Roman Empire in the Migration period • Birgit Arrhenius 7 New research on finds of Avar chieftain-burials at Igar, Hungary • Gyula Fülöp 8 Early medieval hillforts in Polish lands in the 6th to the 8th centuries: problems of origins, function, and spatial organization • Zbigniew Kobyliński 9 What does coinage tell us about Scandinavian society in the late Viking Age? • Brita MaImer 10 Interactions between indigenous and western cultures in Livonia in the 13th to 16th centuries • É. Mugurēvičs POPULATION 11 Height variation in the light ofsocial and regional differences in medieval Denmark • Jesper L. Boldsen 12 Merovingian skull deformations in the southwest of France • Eric Crubézy 13 The palaeodemography of medieval populations in Czechoslovakia • Milan Stloukal RURAL SETTLEMENT 14 The lower Vltava basin: an attempt at a regional approach to the settlement history of the early Middle Ages • Martin Gojda 15 Rural settlements in the 9th and 10th centuries in the Danube valley in Serbia • Gordana Marjanovic-Vujovic URBAN DEVELOPMENT 16 Origins and development of Slavic and German Lübeck • Günter P. Fehring 17 Research in Prague — an historical and archaeological view of the development of Prague from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century • Vaclav Huml 18 Archaeological evidence for the development and urbanization of Kiev from the 8th to the 14th centuries • Oleg M. Ioannisyan Index Edited By David Austin, Leslie Alcock. A Selection Of Edited Papers Originally Presented At The Medieval Sessions Of The World Archaeological Congress In Southampton In 1986. Includes Bibliographies And Index.