Funeral Archaeology and Avar Culture: Old Excavations Yield Serial Data
Bailey K. Young
Cemeteries of the Avar Period (567-829) in Hungaryedited by I. Kovrig. Vol. I: E. Garam, Kovrig, J. Gy. Szabó, Török, Finds Hungarian National Museum (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1975) 368 pp. with 152 Figures and 37 Plates. II: A. Kiss, County Baranya 1977) 174 71 92 The volumes are published Academy Sciences, V. Alkotmány utca 21, Budapest, Hungary, distributed Kultura, H-1389, P.O.B. 149, Hungary.The Avars occupied lands surrounding Carpathian Basin (the old Roman province Pannonia) from 567 A.C. until early 9th century, but they little known historically. To their literate Christian neighbors figured only as dangerous enemies Charlemagne destroyed them such. Only within this century has material culture been identified archaeological research set about trying to reconstruct civilization. scholars have advanced strong arguments that much information relating social structure well religious mentality is “coded” cemeteries. A new corpus volumes, first two which reviewed here, intended provide a systematic presentation excavation thousands tombs since 1930s. This series promises quantitatively significant body data on given funeral horizon, coherent point view Avars, great interest students Middle Ages Europe its interrelations world steppes.
Journal of Field Archaeology