Early medieval settlements
Subtitle: the archaeology of rural communities in North-West Europe, 400-900
By: Helena Hamerow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Land settlement -- Europe, Western; Agricultural geography -- Europe, Western; Agriculture -- Europe, Western -- History; Europe, Western -- Antiquities; Europe, Western -- Rural conditions -- History
Description: "The excavation of settlements has in recent years tranformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as: what did houses look like and how were they furnished? How did villages and individual farmsteads develop? How intensive was agricultural production and how did intensification affect village communities? What role did craft production and trade play in the rural community?".

"In a period for which written sources are scarce, archaeology is of central importance in understanding the 'small worlds' of early medieval communities. Helena Hamerow's extensively illustrated and accessible study offers the first overview and synthesis of the large and rapidly growing body of evidence for early medieval settlements in north-west Europe, as well as a consideration of the implications of this evidence for Anglo-Saxon England."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-219) and index