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Early Medieval Period

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The Early Medieval Period, also known as the Dark Ages, spans approximately from the 5th to the 10th century in Europe, characterized by the decline of the Roman Empire, the rise of feudalism, and significant cultural, social, and political transformations that laid the groundwork for the subsequent High Middle Ages.
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The Early Medieval Period, also known as the Dark Ages, spans approximately from the 5th to the 10th century in Europe, characterized by the decline of the Roman Empire, the rise of feudalism, and significant cultural, social, and political transformations that laid the groundwork for the subsequent High Middle Ages.

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1. How did geography and natural resources influence the development and social role of early medieval hillforts?

This theme investigates the environmental and economic factors that contributed to the establishment and expansion of early medieval hillfort agglomerations. Understanding these factors sheds light on the socio-political functions of hillforts beyond mere military defense, encompassing trade, resource control, and regional power dynamics.

Key finding: Robak (Masaryk University) reveals that the Bojná hillfort emerged as early as the 7th or 8th century strategically at the heart of iron ore processing and near gold-bearing areas, indicating symbolic, military, and economic... Read more
Key finding: Through archaeological and historical analyses, this study identifies the Åker estate as an exception to widespread settlement abandonment during the Early to Late Iron Age transition in Norway. The site’s survival and... Read more
Key finding: This paper critically re-examines the historic and archaeological evidence for the early medieval Serb presence in the Balkans, emphasizing the complex interaction of migration, settlement geography, and ethnonym spread.... Read more

2. What does material culture reveal about technology and craft specialization in the early medieval period?

This research area focuses on archaeological artifacts and their technological analyses to understand early medieval craftsmanship, production organization, and technological innovations such as metallurgy and tool use. Such studies illuminate economic activities and social organization linked to artisanship and technological dissemination.

Key finding: Analysis using X-ray and SEM identified silver residues on a draw-plate tool from a 6th-8th century Vendel Period workshop in Old Uppsala, constituting one of the earliest confirmed wire-drawing tools. This evidence indicates... Read more
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Key finding: By reexamining eight early medieval weapons with radiographic and spectroscopic methods, this study situates the artifacts within specific archaeological contexts dated 6th-11th centuries, challenging prior incomplete... Read more
Key finding: This study interprets four unusual anthropomorphic bone figurines from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as parts of rag or dressed dolls linked to Islamic art from the 7th-10th/12th centuries. It provides insight into the... Read more

3. How do interdisciplinary methods deepen our understanding of early medieval socio-economic systems?

This theme explores the integration of archaeological, isotopic, historical, and paleoenvironmental data to analyze early medieval agriculture, trade, social organization, and environmental impact. It emphasizes the value of combining multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct complex economic adaptations and cultural dynamics.

Key finding: This interdisciplinary study combines zooarchaeology, strontium isotope analysis, and historical sources to demonstrate that wool production in Carolingian-period Leiderdorp functioned as a socio-economic stabilizer or... Read more
Key finding: Applying a multispecies social-historical lens to the 10th-century Raffelstetten customs record reveals intertwined experiences of enslaved people and animals during capture, transport, and sale. This perspective challenges... Read more
Key finding: Anthropological analysis of pathological cranial lesions in 605 medieval individuals indicates nutritional deficiencies (likely iron-deficiency anemia) as probable causes, especially among juveniles. This bioarchaeological... Read more

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The origins of the early medieval Magyars who appeared in the Carpathian Basin by the end of the 9th century CE remain incompletely understood. Previous archaeogenetic research identified the newcomers as migrants from the Eurasian... more
Archaeological research, which has been conducted intensively in the former Czechoslovakia since the mid 20 th century, has produced a large amount of analog data. Contemporary archaeology aims to connect this data with the up-to-date... more
Arkaeologi og naturvidenskab -fremmede, bekendte, flirtende, aegtefaeller, skilt….eller lidt af det hele Jeanette Varberg* Står arkaeologien i skyggen af naturvidenskaben? Anmeldelse Ole Thirup Kastholm Trods skriveborde og eksperimenter... more
Comprehensive archaeological assessment of an early mediaeval location in Lahovice-Prague 5 included revision and paleopathological analysis of skeletal material yielded by initial research carried out under the guidance of B. Soudský and... more
Abstract. Female dress of the 1st–5th centuries in the Southeastern Baltic is an important source for studying the region’s material culture. According to the burials of the Kaliningrad (Sambian) Peninsula, Western Lithuania and Northern... more
Работа посвящена анализу культурного слоя и материалов, полученных в ходе работ, проведенных в Зарайске за пределами укреплений кирпичного кремля и деревянного острога в 2024 г. Рассмотрена история освоения Новой Ильинской слободки от... more
Mousterian sites in northern Dalmatia. Settlement and migration system, lithic technology and stone raw material procurement strategies.
Theban tomb no. 84 was originally built for Iamunedjeh, first royal herald under the reign of Thutmose III, but already one generation later, it was appropriated by Mery, high priest of Amun under Amenhotep II and owner of TT 95. The... more
mości bibliograficzne i sygnatury archiwalne pozostałych znanych odcisków, ułatwiające prowadzenie dalszych badań. Korpus średniowiecznych pieczęci francuskich, czerpiąc z dziewiętnastowiecznego, a nieraz i starszego dorobku, pokazuje,... more
This thesis tracks the cultural, epigraphical, and artistic traces left by the Scandinavians, who were ascendant within the Byzantine world between the 9th and the 12th centuries, and their military action. Whereas the Scandinavians in... more
This article presents the fifth copperplate inscription explicitly mentioning Sasaoka, who was king of Gauda in the first quarter of the seventh century Ce. Formulated in Sanskrit prose, this document belongs to the class of land-sale... more
This article summarises the results of excavations at the Kalai Hissor site, located in the Baysuntau piedmonts of Surxondaryo Province, southern Uzbekistan. A stratigraphic section was excavated, establishing the site's chronology. Two... more
The idea of the Nordic nations as champions of gender equality is firmly rooted in today’s perceptions of society. But how does such a modern comprehension influence our views of history? Does our understanding of gender impact on how we... more
The article discusses the potential in moving from ”being a town” to ”doing a town”, introducing some theoretical concepts and arguments from social practice theory. The last part of the article looks into the analytical possibilities... more
доцент, Ўзбекистон жаҳон тиллари университети Сагдуллаев Анатолий Сагдуллаевич тарих фанлари доктори, профессор, академик, Ўзбекистон Миллий университети Бобожонова Дилором Бобожонова тарих фанлари доктори, профессор, Ўзбекистон жаҳон... more
En los últimos años del s. XIX y principios del XX el estudio de la interacción entre la materia y las ondas electromagnéticas llevó a la formulación de importantes problemas cuya resolución condujo a una concepción nueva de la física que... more
Tresoar is Fryslân’s historical and literary centre. It is a library, an archive, and a literary museum but, while it stimulates research, it is not a research institute.
I samband med en omläggning av kyrkogårdsmuren runt Estuna kyrka, Uppland, 2024 påträffades ett runstensfragment (Figur 1). Fragmentet saknar runor, men av ornamentiken och huggningen framgår att det har utgjort en del av en runsten... more
Apollinaris, bishop of Valence, was the brother of the famous Avitus of Vienne, but his biography is practically limited by that. Apollinaris was canonized in Merovingian times, and the only source that can expand our knowledge is the... more
Berserker or saint? Is the concept of the Ulfhednr, Odins elite berserker, a modern misunderstanding of early Christian iconography? Is the wolfheaded warrior actual nothing more than depictions of the cynephalic saint Christopher?
This paper deals with the history of the study of early medieval sculptures of Altai, which dates back more than two hundred years. They conditionally distinguish three periods in their study: 1 – the beginning of the XVIII – 60-s of the... more
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Este trabajo presenta una reconstrucción histórica y conceptual del proceso de descubrimiento del electrón, desde los primeros experimentos con la electrólisis hasta las determinaciones cuantitativas de su carga y masa. A través del... more
primeros desarrollos de la radioactividad ver el artículo del Prof. Dr. Roberto Mercader en este mismo fascículo.
Кремация является наиболее распространенным погребальным обрядом в индуизме. В его общей структуре прослеживается преемственность с ведийских времен до современности. Вместе с тем отдельные элементы ритуала имеют очень большую локальную,... more
Fensalarna ("sumpsalarna") som enligt Snorre har varit "mycket förnämligt", har jämförts med gudinnan Nerthus ö. Det är troligt att från dem har menats Lidingö (Lady's/ledarinnans ö, gudinnans ö) och Stockholms skärgård. Enligt forskarna... more
Despite its importance for the history of the colonia of Lugdunum, the battle of 197 and the sacking of the city have never benefited from an in-depth archaeological analysis devoted to the remains they may have left in the ground. This... more
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The article presents small-scale rescue excavations conducted by the Regional Museum in Vysoké Mýto in the Ústí nad Orlicí District in 2022–2023.
Knjiga predstavlja izvirno in doslej še neobjavljeno delo z jasno in celostno osvetlitvijo politične, pravne, literarne, zgodovinske in kulturne vloge kralja Sama. Združuje pet poglobljenih in najrelevantnejših sodobnih znanstvenih... more
A SABRE, ITS ORIGIN AND TECHNICAL PRINCIPLE (A CONSULTATIVE NOTE BY VSEVOLOD ARENDT) Vsevolod Arendt (1887–1937) is considered one of the founders of the Russian weapons science. Having been educated in France and in the Russian Empire,... more
Автор оприлюднює  факти  репресій  1945-1950 рр. на Чернігівщині, розповідає про виселення з хуторів.  Найчастіше в Сибір відправляли тих, хто чимсь не догодив місцевій колгоспній номенклатурі
www.universitypress.dk Udgivet med støtte fra Farumgaard-Fonden, Letterstedska föreningen og Lillian og Dan Finks Fond. Tab. 1. The pottery of Gyllenkrok 3, 4, 5. The number and percentages of sherds are divided by phase. Keramiken från... more
According to archaeological data, starting already from prehistory the Upper Tisa Basin connected the north-eastern periphery of the Carpathian Basin to the territories situated beyond the north-eastern Carpathians. During the middle or... more
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Im Zuge der Neuerrichtung der Friedhofskapelle waren im Nahbereich der Pfarrkirche Hl. Georg in Neustift im Stubaital vom 2. Mai bis zum 2. Juni 2022 archäologische Untersuchungen notwendig. Dabei wurde die Umfassungsmauer des... more
Dating mortar from the building phase of the church ruin in the Museum Garden Dating the subterranean remnants of a medieval church in the garden of Sigtuna Museum has proved an elusive task since first excavated in 1915. Three... more
La commune d’Optevoz a été prospectée de longue date, avant d’être prise sous le feu des recherches d’archéologie préventive à partir de 1997. Se dévoile depuis lors un habitat groupé antique très structuré, localisé en territoire... more
This paper aims to provide a translation and commentary of Constantine Rhodius' invective against Leo Choirosphaktes, dwelling on analogies which the present poem shows with the disruptive techniques generally occurring in Constantine's... more
Spazi, opere, scritture collana diretta da / series directed by Fabio Coden www.silvanaeditoriale.it a cura di / edited by FABIO CODEN collana diretta da / series directed by Fabio Coden SEPOLTURE MEDIEVALI (IV-XV SECOLO) Spazi, opere,... more
The structure described here was discovered during a 2018 preventative excavation at the southwestern outskirts of the city of Satu Mare (Satu Mare county), in an area historically characterized by the marshy terrain typical of the... more
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