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dc.contributor.authorTvauri, Andres
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-13 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T15:18:09Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:18:09Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier423944
dc.identifierOCN: 821538785en_US
dc.identifier.issn1736-3810
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34489
dc.description.abstractThis book analyses the society, economy, settlement, and culture of the territory of present-day Estonia in the period of ca AD 450–1050. This period is known in the Estonian archaeological chronology as the Migration Period, the Pre-Viking Age, and the Viking Age. This was an era of rapid change, by the end of which traditional Estonian peasant culture as it is known until the 19th century had developed. Whereas in Western Europe written sources from the second half of the first millennium AD herald the arrival of the Middle Ages, there is an almost complete absence of written information about the prevailing conditions and events that took place in the area of present-day Estonia. There are only remains of the farms and fortresses of that time beneath the earth, as well as cemeteries, overgrown field baulks and clearance cairns, and the large amount of excavated ancient objects or fragments thereof. Many aspects of prehistoric life cannot be researched because the source material is not extant and there is no hope of finding it. Moreover, many phenomena of human life do not generate archaeological source material. Thus our overall understanding of the Estonian Middle Iron Age and the Viking Age is inevitably fragmentary and superficial.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEstonian Archaeology
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTE Estoniaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.othermigration period
dc.subject.otherEstonian archaeology
dc.subject.otherpre-viking age
dc.subject.otherviking age
dc.subject.otherCremation
dc.subject.otherIron Age
dc.titleThe Migration Period, Pre-Viking Age, and Viking Age in Estonia
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_423944
oapen.relation.isPublishedByfed215d9-bf7f-466c-a9f3-5510b4847c64
oapen.relation.isbn9789949199365
oapen.series.number4
oapen.pages384
oapen.place.publicationTartu
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Cremation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation; Estonia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia; Iron Age - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age; Migration Period - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period; Viking Age - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age
oapen.identifier.ocn821538785


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