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The Pace of Change: Studies in Early-Medieval Chronology (Cardiff Studies in Archaeology)
The Pace of Change Studies in EarlyMedieval Chronology - Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Author:Frank Siegmund, Karen Hoilund-Nielsen, John Hines Chronology, though it is the factual basis for contextualizing archaeology, has suffered from institutional neglect. This book seeks to join local schemes into progressively more comprehensive and general "master" chronologies. The studies focus on Germanic or Germanized populations during and after the Roman Empire's fall in the West; the rich ... more »sites chosen provide a yardstick for other areas. Great attention has been paid to terminology; definition of major periods, sub-periods and artefact-types as well as methodological advances. The relationship between typology and computerized quantitive and statistical techniques is emphasized especially. Papers all in English, covering Denmark, NW Europe and Britain. 208p (Oxbow Books 1998)« less