From the Baltic to the Black Sea

Studies in Medieval Archaeology

Leslie Alcock, David Austin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415152259
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135073312
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: Social Sciences

Offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections 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.

Index

• Abraham cemetery 210, 212–213
• adzes 241
• aerial photography 105
• African primitiveness, myth of 88
• agriculture 63, 68, 87–88, 101–102, 105, 135, 227, 238, 240, 254, 273, 277
• medieval development 101
• Akatovo hillfort 155
• Alans 195–196
• Alemanni 17, 197
• Altene castle 171
• amphorae 239–240
• amulets, charms 129, 171
• analogy, medieval to modern 30
• Angevins 22
• Angles 16–17
• Anglo-Saxons 15–18, 20–22, 25, 27–28, 30, 106
• animal management 70
• animals, domesticated 63, 238, 287
• Annecy cemetery 190
• anthropology 13, 31, 76, 91–92, 198, 204–205
• Apahida II site 123–126
• Apollinarius 195–196
• archaeological analysis
  • conceptual frameworks 64
  • contextual approaches 96
  • continuity vs congruency 27, 92, 261–262
  • convergence vs diffusion 197–198
  • culture historical approach xii, 196, 220
  • experimental 102
  • field survey methods 98–99, 220–221
  • generalism vs particularism 20, 103
  • hermeneutic 48, 52–53
  • heterogeneity vs homogeneity...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Objectives of Medieval Archaeology
• Early State and Ethnic Formations
• Population
• Rural Settlement
• Urban Development
• Index