The Very Beginning of Europe?: Cultural and Social Dimensions of Early-Medieval Migration and Colonisation

Foreword 9
The legacy of Yann Hollevoet 11
Beyond migration and ethnicity? Introduction to the theme of "The very beginning of Europe? Cultural and Social Dimensions of Early Medieval Migration and Colonisation (5th - 8th centuries)" / Dries Tys 21
SESSION I: The Issue of Migration: theoretical approaches
Archaeology and Migration: Rethinking the debate / Guy Halsall 29
The status of horses in late Avar-period society in the Carpathian Basin / Ilona Bede 41
Probable Frankish burials of the sixth century AD at Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France) / Marie-Cécile Truc 51
SESSION II: Identity and landscape
Settled landscapes – a regional perspective from early Anglo-Saxon Kent / Stuart Brookes 69
Early medieval communities around the North Sea: a 'maritime culture'? / Pieterjan Deckers, Dries Tys 81
The 'Slavonisation' of the southwestern Baltic area: Preliminary report on the investigations in the Pyritz region / Sebastian Messal, Bartlomiej Rogalski 89
Forms of late antique settlement in Lusitania / Adriaan De Man 101
Continuity within change. Two sites in the borders of the former Iceni territory in East Anglia / Penelope Walton Rogers 109
SESSION III: Identity and urban centres
Tournai, capitale du Bas-Empire et évolution au Haut Moyen-Âge / Raymond Brulet 125
The Late Roman and early medieval urban topography of Tongeren / Alain Vanderhoeven 135
New light on the origins, development and decline of the Middle Saxon trading settlement of Lundenwic / Lyn Blackmore 147
Barcelone, de sede regia à capitale comtale: continuités et changements / Julia Beltrán de Heredia Bercero 159
SESSION IV: Material culture. How are identities reflected in their material culture?
Questioning Migration. Continuity and change in the cemetery at Rhenen (4th – 8th century AD) / Annemarieke Willemsen 187
Who were buried at the Broechem cemetery? (5th - 7th century AD, prov. of Antwerp, Belgium) / Rica Annaert 197
Céramiques et verres mérovingiens dans la vallée mosane: miroir d'une civilisation en evolution (du milieu Ve au VIIIe siècle) / Line Van Wersch 205
Hand-made pottery along the Channel coast and parallels from the Scheldt valley / Jean Soulat, Anne Bocquet-Liénard, Xavier Savary, Vincent Hincker 215
Posters
Early metallic artefacts of adornment in Portugal / Andreia Arezes 227
Merovingian reuse of Bronze Age barrows at Beerse-Krommenhof (prov. of Antwerp, Belgium) / Stephan Delaruelle, Bart De Smaele, Catherina Thijs, Simon Verdegem, Sofie Scheltjens, Jef Van Doninck, Rica Annaert 237
L’établissement germanique du Bas-Empire à Baelen/Nereth, province de Liège (Belgique) / Frédéric Hanut, Claire Goffioul, Eric Goemaere 243
Cultural discontinuity and the migration hypothesis. The 6th-century Slavic migration in the light of new archaeological finds from Bohemia / Nad'a Profantová 255
The rise and fall of a Frankish intention. The early history of a frontier site between Saxons and Slavs on the river Elbe / Jens Schneeweiss 265