From the Baltic to the Black Sea

Introduction, David Austin, Leslie Alcock; Part 1 Objectives of Medieval Archaeology, David Austin, Leslie Alcock; Chapter 1 The 'proper study' of medieval archaeology, David Austin; Chapter 2 The 'proper study' of medieval archaeology: a case study, David Austin, Julian Thomas; Chapter 3 Medieval archaeology and the tyranny of the historical record, Timothy C. Champion; Chapter 4 A comparative study of Czech and British medieval rural settlement archaeology: towards whole landscapes, Martin Gojda; Part 2 Early State and Ethnic Formations, David Austin, Leslie Alcock; Chapter 5 Byzantium and the Avars: the archaeology of the first 70 years of the Avar era, Istvan Bona; Chapter 6 Connections between Scandinavia and the East Roman Empire in the Migration period, Birgit Arrhenius; Chapter 7 New research on finds of Avar chieftain-burials at Igar, Hungary, Gyula Fulop; Chapter 8 Early medieval hillforts in Polish lands in the 6th to the 8th centuries: problems of origins, function, and spatial organization, Zbigniew Kohyli?ski; Chapter 9 What does coinage tell us about Scandinavian society in the late Viking Age?, Brita Malmer; Chapter 10 Interactions between indigenous and western culture in Livonia in the 13th to 16th centuries, E. Mugur?vi?s; Part 3 Population, David Austin, Leslie Alcock; Chapter 11 Height variation in the light of social and regional differences in medieval Denmark, Jesper L. Boldsen; Chapter 12 Merovingian skull deformations in the southwest of France, Eric Crubezy; Chapter 13 The palaeodemography of medieval populations in Czechoslovakia, Milan Stloukal; Part 4 Rural Settlement, David Austin, Leslie Alcock; Chapter 14 The lower Vltava basin: an attempt at a regional approach to the settlement history of the early Middle Ages, Martin Gojda; Chapter 15 Rural settlements in the 9th and 10th centuries in the Danube Valley in Serbia, Gordana Marjanovic-Vujovic; Part 5 Urban Development, David Austin, Leslie Alcock; Chapter 16 Origins and development of Slavic and German Lubeck, Gunter P. Fehring; Chapter 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; Chapter 18 Archaeological evidence for the development and urbanization of Kiev from the 8th to the 14th centuries, Oleg M. Ioannisyan;